80_FR_80703 80 FR 80456 - Pipeline Safety: Random Drug Testing Rate; Contractor Management Information System Reporting; and Obtaining Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Sign-In Information

80 FR 80456 - Pipeline Safety: Random Drug Testing Rate; Contractor Management Information System Reporting; and Obtaining Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Sign-In Information

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 247 (December 24, 2015)

Page Range80456-80457
FR Document2015-32359

PHMSA has determined that the minimum random drug testing rate for covered employees will remain at 25 percent during calendar year 2016. Operators are reminded that drug and alcohol testing information must be submitted for contractors performing or ready to perform covered functions. For calendar year 2015 reporting, PHMSA will not attempt to mail the ``user name'' and ``password'' for the Drug and Alcohol Management Information System (DAMIS) to operators, but will make the user name and password available in the PHMSA Portal (https:// portal.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline).

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 247 (Thursday, December 24, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 247 (Thursday, December 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80456-80457]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-32359]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket ID PHMSA-2015-0213]


Pipeline Safety: Random Drug Testing Rate; Contractor Management 
Information System Reporting; and Obtaining Drug and Alcohol Management 
Information System Sign-In Information

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Calendar Year 2016 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for 
Random Drug Testing; Reminder for Operators to Report Contractor 
Management Information System (MIS) Data; and Reminder of Method for 
Operators to Obtain User Name and Password for Electronic Reporting.

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SUMMARY: PHMSA has determined that the minimum random drug testing rate 
for covered employees will remain at 25 percent during calendar year 
2016. Operators are reminded that drug and alcohol testing information 
must be submitted for contractors performing or ready to perform 
covered functions. For calendar year 2015 reporting, PHMSA will not 
attempt to mail the ``user name'' and ``password'' for the Drug and 
Alcohol Management Information System (DAMIS) to operators, but will 
make the user name and password available in the PHMSA Portal (https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline).

DATES: Effective January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blaine Keener, Director of Safety Data 
Systems and Analysis, by telephone at 202-366-0970 or by email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

[[Page 80457]]

Notice of Calendar Year 2016 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random 
Drug Testing

    Operators of gas, hazardous liquid, and carbon dioxide pipelines 
and operators of liquefied natural gas facilities must randomly select 
and test a percentage of covered employees for prohibited drug use. 
Pursuant to 49 CFR 199.105(c)(2), (3), and (4), the PHMSA 
Administrator's decision on whether to change the minimum annual random 
drug testing rate is based on the reported random drug test positive 
rate for the pipeline industry. The data considered by the 
Administrator comes from operators' annual submissions of MIS reports 
required by Sec.  199.119(a). If the reported random drug test positive 
rate is less than one percent, the Administrator may continue the 
minimum random drug testing rate at 25 percent. In calendar year 2014, 
the random drug test positive rate was less than one percent. 
Therefore, the PHMSA minimum annual random drug testing selection rate 
will remain at 25 percent for calendar year 2016.

Reminder for Operators To Report Contractor MIS Data

    On January 19, 2010, PHMSA published an Advisory Bulletin (75 FR 
2926) implementing the annual collection of contractor MIS drug and 
alcohol testing data. An operator's report to PHMSA is not considered 
complete until an MIS report is submitted for each contractor that 
performed covered functions as defined in 49 CFR part Sec.  199.3.

Reminder of Method for Operators To Obtain User Name and Password for 
Electronic Reporting

    In previous years, PHMSA attempted to mail the DAMIS user name and 
password to operator staff with responsibility for submitting DAMIS 
reports. Based on the number of phone calls to PHMSA each year 
requesting this information, the mailing process has not been 
effective. Pipeline operators have been submitting reports required by 
Parts 191 and 195 through the PHMSA Portal (https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline) since 2011. Each company with an Office 
of Pipeline Safety issued Operator Identification Number should employ 
staff with access to the PHMSA Portal.
    The user name and password required for an operator to access DAMIS 
and enter calendar year 2015 data will be available to all staff with 
access to the PHMSA Portal in late December 2015. When the DAMIS user 
name and password is available in the Portal, all registered users will 
receive an email to that effect. Operator staff with responsibility for 
submitting DAMIS reports should coordinate with registered Portal users 
to obtain the DAMIS user name and password. Registered Portal users for 
an operator typically include the U.S. Department of Transportation 
Compliance Officer and staff or consultants with responsibility for 
submitting annual and incident reports on PHMSA F 7000- and 7100-series 
forms.
    For operators that have failed to register staff in the PHMSA 
Portal for Part 191 and 195 reporting purposes, operator staff 
responsible for submitting DAMIS reports can register in the Portal by 
following the instructions at: http://opsweb.phmsa.dot.gov/portal_message/PHMSA_Portal_Registration.pdf .
    Pursuant to Sec. Sec.  199.119(a) and 199.229(a), operators with 50 
or more covered employees, including both operator and contractor 
staff, are required to submit DAMIS reports annually. Operators with 
less than 50 total covered employees are required to report only upon 
written request from PHMSA. If an operator has submitted a calendar 
year 2013 or later DAMIS report with less than 50 total covered 
employees, the PHMSA Portal message may state that no calendar year 
2015 DAMIS report is required. Some of these operators may have grown 
to more than 50 covered employees during calendar year 2015. The Portal 
message will include instructions for how these operators can obtain a 
calendar year 2015 DAMIS user name and password.

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60102, 60104, 60108, 60117, and 
60118; 49 CFR 1.53.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 18, 2015, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR Part 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and Programs.
[FR Doc. 2015-32359 Filed 12-23-15; 8:45 am]
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80456 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 247 / Thursday, December 24, 2015 / Notices (MMtpa) each (approximately 97 billion and USCG accepted the documentation Department of Transportation Privacy standard cubic feet per year [Bscf/y]) to and deemed the original Delfin Act Notice that appeared in the Federal three MMtpa each (approximately 146 application complete. Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR Bscf/y), and 2) construction of new- On November 19, 2015, HIOS filed an 19477), see Privacy Act. You may view build FLNGV hulls instead of application (FERC Docket No. CP16–20– docket submissions in person at the converting existing tank vessels. In sum, 000) to abandon certain offshore Docket Operations Facility or the four FLNGVs will be designed to facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, electronically on the have the capability to produce including its 66-mile-long mainline, an www.regulations.gov Web site. approximately 12.0 MMtpa of LNG for offshore platform, and related facilities (Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1501, et seq., 49 CFR export (approximately 585 Bscf/y), and (‘‘HIOS Repurposed Facilities’’). Also, 1.93(h)). as much as 13.2 MMtpa in the on November 19, 2015, Delfin LNG filed Dated: December 18, 2015. optimized design case, (approximately an amended application in FERC Docket No. CP15–490–001 to use the HIOS By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 657.5 Bscf/y). Each FLNGV would have a total LNG storage capacity of 210,000 Repurposed Facilities and to revise the T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., cubic meters (m3), an increase from the onshore component of its deepwater Secretary, Maritime Administration. original application’s 165,000 m3. port project. On December 1, 2015, [FR Doc. 2015–32349 Filed 12–23–15; 8:45 am] The amended application also FERC issued a Notice of Application for BILLING CODE 4910–81–P provides for increased natural gas Delfin LNG’s amendment, which was compression horsepower requirements published in the Federal Register on at the onshore facility. These are December 7, 2015 (80 FR 76003). DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION described in the section of this Federal The amended FERC application Register Notice entitled ‘‘FERC specifically discusses the onshore Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Application.’’ facility and adjustments to the onshore Safety Administration Other fundamental aspects of the operations that would involve [Docket ID PHMSA–2015–0213] proposed Delfin LNG project remain reactivating approximately 1.1 miles of unchanged, including Port Delfin’s the existing UTOS pipeline; the Pipeline Safety: Random Drug Testing location nearly 40 nautical miles addition of four new onshore Rate; Contractor Management offshore of Louisiana, the reuse and compressors totaling 120,000 Information System Reporting; and repurpose of two existing offshore horsepower of new compression; Obtaining Drug and Alcohol pipelines, installation of new pipeline activation of associated metering and Management Information System Sign- laterals leading to each tower yoke regulation facilities; the installation of In Information mooring system (TYMS), construction of new supply header pipelines (which a pipeline bypass around an existing would consist of 0.25 miles of new 42- AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous platform at WC 167, and use of air inch-diameter pipeline to connect the Materials Safety Administration cooling technology for the natural gas former UTOS line to the new meter (PHMSA), DOT. liquefaction process. station) and 0.6 miles of new twin 30- ACTION: Notice of Calendar Year 2016 inch-diameter pipelines between Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for FERC Application Random Drug Testing; Reminder for Transco Station 44 and the new On May 8, 2015, Delfin LNG filed its compressor station site. The original Operators to Report Contractor original application with FERC FERC application consisted of three new Management Information System (MIS) requesting authorizations pursuant to onshore compressors totaling 74,000 Data; and Reminder of Method for the Natural Gas Act and 18 CFR part 157 horsepower. Operators to Obtain User Name and for the onshore components of the Additional information regarding the Password for Electronic Reporting. proposed deepwater port terminal details of Delfin LNG’s original and including authorization to use the SUMMARY: PHMSA has determined that amended application to the FERC is on the minimum random drug testing rate existing pipeline infrastructure, which file and open to public inspection. includes leasing a segment of pipeline for covered employees will remain at 25 Project filings may be viewed on the percent during calendar year 2016. from HIOS extending from the terminus web at www.ferc.gov using the of the UTOS pipeline offshore. On May Operators are reminded that drug and ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket alcohol testing information must be 20, 2015, FERC issued its Notice of number excluding the last three digits Application for the onshore components submitted for contractors performing or (i.e., CP15–490) in the docket number ready to perform covered functions. For of Delfin LNG’s deepwater port project field to access project information. For in Docket No. CP15–490–000. This calendar year 2015 reporting, PHMSA assistance, please contact FERC at will not attempt to mail the ‘‘user Notice was published in the Federal FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call Register on May 27, 2015 (80 FR 30226). name’’ and ‘‘password’’ for the Drug and toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) Alcohol Management Information Delfin LNG stated in its application that 502–8659. High Island Offshore System, LLC System (DAMIS) to operators, but will (HIOS) would submit a separate Privacy Act make the user name and password application with FERC seeking Regardless of the method used for available in the PHMSA Portal (https:// authorization to abandon by lease its submitting comments or material, all portal.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline). facilities to Delfin LNG. FERC, however, submissions will be posted, without DATES: Effective January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2016. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES advised Delfin LNG that it would not change, to www.regulations.gov and will begin processing Delfin LNG’s include any personal information you FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: application until such time that provide. Therefore, submitting this Blaine Keener, Director of Safety Data MARAD and USCG deemed Delfin information to the docket makes it Systems and Analysis, by telephone at LNG’s deepwater port license public. You may wish to read the 202–366–0970 or by email at application complete and HIOS Privacy and Security Notice, as well as blaine.keener@dot.gov. submitted an abandonment application the User Notice, that is available on the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: with FERC. On June 29, 2015, MARAD www.regulations.gov Web site and the VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:57 Dec 23, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00145 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24DEN1.SGM 24DEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 247 / Thursday, December 24, 2015 / Notices 80457 Notice of Calendar Year 2016 Minimum registered users will receive an email to publishing this notice of a special Annual Percentage Rate for Random that effect. Operator staff with permit request we have received from a Drug Testing responsibility for submitting DAMIS pipeline operator, seeking relief from Operators of gas, hazardous liquid, reports should coordinate with compliance with certain requirements and carbon dioxide pipelines and registered Portal users to obtain the in the Federal pipeline safety DAMIS user name and password. regulations. This notice seeks public operators of liquefied natural gas Registered Portal users for an operator comments on this request, including facilities must randomly select and test typically include the U.S. Department of comments on any safety or a percentage of covered employees for Transportation Compliance Officer and environmental impacts. At the prohibited drug use. Pursuant to 49 CFR staff or consultants with responsibility conclusion of the 30-day comment 199.105(c)(2), (3), and (4), the PHMSA for submitting annual and incident period, PHMSA will evaluate the Administrator’s decision on whether to reports on PHMSA F 7000- and 7100- request and determine whether to grant change the minimum annual random series forms. or deny a special permit. drug testing rate is based on the For operators that have failed to reported random drug test positive rate DATES: Submit any comments regarding register staff in the PHMSA Portal for this special permit request by January for the pipeline industry. The data Part 191 and 195 reporting purposes, considered by the Administrator comes 25, 2016. operator staff responsible for submitting from operators’ annual submissions of ADDRESSES: Comments should reference DAMIS reports can register in the Portal MIS reports required by § 199.119(a). If the docket number for the specific by following the instructions at: http:// the reported random drug test positive special permit request and may be opsweb.phmsa.dot.gov/portal_message/ rate is less than one percent, the submitted in the following ways: PHMSA_Portal_Registration.pdf . • E-Gov Web site: http:// Administrator may continue the Pursuant to §§ 199.119(a) and minimum random drug testing rate at 25 www.Regulations.gov. This site allows 199.229(a), operators with 50 or more percent. In calendar year 2014, the the public to enter comments on any covered employees, including both random drug test positive rate was less Federal Register notice issued by any operator and contractor staff, are than one percent. Therefore, the PHMSA agency. required to submit DAMIS reports • Fax: 1–202–493–2251. minimum annual random drug testing annually. Operators with less than 50 selection rate will remain at 25 percent • Mail: Docket Management System: total covered employees are required to U.S. Department of Transportation, for calendar year 2016. report only upon written request from Docket Operations, M–30, West Reminder for Operators To Report PHMSA. If an operator has submitted a Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, Contractor MIS Data calendar year 2013 or later DAMIS 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., report with less than 50 total covered Washington, DC 20590. On January 19, 2010, PHMSA employees, the PHMSA Portal message published an Advisory Bulletin (75 FR • Hand Delivery: Docket Management may state that no calendar year 2015 System: U.S. Department of 2926) implementing the annual DAMIS report is required. Some of these collection of contractor MIS drug and Transportation, Docket Operations, M– operators may have grown to more than 30, West Building Ground Floor, Room alcohol testing data. An operator’s 50 covered employees during calendar report to PHMSA is not considered W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., year 2015. The Portal message will Washington, DC 20590 between 9:00 complete until an MIS report is include instructions for how these submitted for each contractor that a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through operators can obtain a calendar year Friday, except Federal holidays. performed covered functions as defined 2015 DAMIS user name and password. in 49 CFR part § 199.3. Instructions: You should identify the Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60102, 60104, docket number for the special permit Reminder of Method for Operators To 60108, 60117, and 60118; 49 CFR 1.53. request you are commenting on at the Obtain User Name and Password for Issued in Washington, DC, on December beginning of your comments. If you Electronic Reporting 18, 2015, under authority delegated in 49 submit your comments by mail, please In previous years, PHMSA attempted CFR Part 1.97. submit two copies. To receive to mail the DAMIS user name and Alan K. Mayberry, confirmation that PHMSA has received password to operator staff with Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy your comments, please include a self- responsibility for submitting DAMIS and Programs. addressed stamped postcard. Internet reports. Based on the number of phone [FR Doc. 2015–32359 Filed 12–23–15; 8:45 am] users may submit comments at http:// calls to PHMSA each year requesting BILLING CODE 4910–60–P www.Regulations.gov. this information, the mailing process Note: Comments are posted without has not been effective. Pipeline changes or edits to http:// operators have been submitting reports DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION www.Regulations.gov, including any personal required by Parts 191 and 195 through information provided. There is a privacy Pipeline and Hazardous Materials statement published on http:// the PHMSA Portal (https:// Safety Administration www.Regulations.gov. portal.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline) since 2011. Each company with an Office of [Docket No. PHMSA–2015–0210] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pipeline Safety issued Operator General: Kay McIver by telephone at Identification Number should employ Pipeline Safety: Request for Special 202–366–0113, or email at kay.mciver@ Permit dot.gov. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES staff with access to the PHMSA Portal. The user name and password required AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Technical: Max Kieba by telephone at for an operator to access DAMIS and Materials Safety Administration 202–493–0595, or email at max.kieba@ enter calendar year 2015 data will be (PHMSA); DOT. dot.gov. available to all staff with access to the ACTION: Notice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA PHMSA Portal in late December 2015. has received a request for a special When the DAMIS user name and SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal permit from a pipeline operator seeking password is available in the Portal, all pipeline safety laws, PHMSA is relief from compliance with certain VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:57 Dec 23, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00146 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24DEN1.SGM 24DEN1


Document Created: 2015-12-24 02:25:33
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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of Calendar Year 2016 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random Drug Testing; Reminder for Operators to Report Contractor Management Information System (MIS) Data; and Reminder of Method for Operators to Obtain User Name and Password for Electronic Reporting.
DatesEffective January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2016.
ContactBlaine Keener, Director of Safety Data Systems and Analysis, by telephone at 202-366-0970 or by email at [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 80456 
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