[Federal Register: January 22, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 14)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration
[Docket: RSPA-98-4957; Notice 1]

 
Notice of Request for Extension of Existing Information 
Collection

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marvin Fell, (202) 366-6205, to ask 
questions about this notice, or write by e-mail to 
marvin.fell@rspa.dot.gov.

SUMMARY: This notice requests public participation in the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval process for the extension an 
existing RSPA information collection. RSPA's information collection 
concerns a pipeline safety regulation that requires gas service line 
operators who do not maintain certain customer piping to notify the 
customers of the need to maintain the piping.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by March 23, 1999 to be 
assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to send comments to the 
Dockets Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, Plaza 401, 400 
Seventh St., SW, Washington, D.C., 20590. Please identify the docket 
and notice numbers shown in the heading of this notice.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Customer-Owned Service Lines.
    Type of Request: Existing information collection.
    Abstract: RSPA pipeline safety regulation 49 CFR 192.16 requires 
operators of gas service lines who do not maintain buried customer 
piping up to building walls or certain other locations to notify their 
customers of the need to maintain that piping. Congress directed DOT to 
take this action in response to service line accidents. By advising 
customers of the need to maintain their buried gas piping, the notices 
may reduce the risk of future accidents.
    Each operator must make the following records available for 
inspection by RSPA or a State agency participating in the Federal 
pipeline safety program at 49 U.S.C. 60105 or 60106: (1) a copy of the 
notice currently in use; and (2) evidence that notices have been sent 
to customers within the previous 3 years.
    Estimate of Burden: Minimal.
    Respondents: Gas transmission and distribution operators.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,590.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 350.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 9,167 hours.
    Comments are invited on: (a) the need for the proposed collection 
of information for the proper performance of the functions of the 
agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; 
(b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information including the validity of the methodology and 
assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity 
of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden 
of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques.
    All timely written comments to this notice will be summarized and 
included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will also be 
available to the public in the docket.

    Issued in Washington, DC on January 11, 1999.
Richard B. Felder,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 99-1454 Filed 1-21-99; 8:45 am]
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