The Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration
(PHMSA) published a 60-day information collection request notice in today’s
Federal Register (78 FR 10261-10262).
PHMSA is taking the unusual step of both requesting a revision of the current
ICR for their Gas Distribution Annual Report (OMB# 2137-0522)
which was just
revised in December and are requesting a new OMB control number for this
collection (apparently separating the annual report from the incident report
currently contained in the same ICR).
Revisions to Annual
Report
PHMSA is seeking this ICR revision because of some changes
that it will be making on the annual report form. Those changes include:
• Adding a section
for operators to specify the commodity type transported;
• Adding a section to
the report for submitters to identify the operator type;
• Adding
“Reconditioned Cast Iron” as a pipe material and defining it as a cast iron gas
distribution pipe that has been lined internally;
• Removing the
requirement to populate certain fields in Tables B1, B2, and B3 as that data
will now be calculated automatically;
• Adding a new data
collection in “Excavation Damage” to include the four causes from Part I of the
“Damage Information Reporting Tool (DIRT)—Field Form.”
Public Comment
PHMSA is soliciting public comment on this proposed
information collection request. Comments may be submitted via the Federal
eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov;
Docket #PHMSA-2013-0004). Comments need to be submitted by April 15th,
2013.
BTW: PHMSA could have selected a better date for the end of
their comment period; just saying…
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