81_FR_95541 81 FR 95293 - Pipeline Safety: Random Drug Testing Rate; Contractor Management Information System Reporting; and Obtaining Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Sign-In Information

81 FR 95293 - 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 81, Issue 248 (December 27, 2016)

Page Range95293-95294
FR Document2016-31220

PHMSA has determined that the minimum random drug testing rate for covered employees will remain at 25 percent during calendar year 2017. Operators are reminded that drug and alcohol testing information must be submitted for contractors performing or ready to perform covered functions. For calendar year 2016 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 81 Issue 248 (Tuesday, December 27, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 95293-95294]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31220]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket ID PHMSA-2016-0147]


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 2017 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for 
Random Drug Testing; Reminder for Operators To Report Contractor 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 
2017. Operators are reminded that drug and alcohol testing information 
must be submitted for contractors performing or ready to perform 
covered functions. For calendar year 2016 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, 2017, through December 31, 2017.

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: 

Notice of Calendar Year 2017 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 Management 
Information System (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 2015, 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 
2017.

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

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performed covered functions as defined in 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 2016 data will be available to all staff with 
access to the PHMSA Portal in late December 2016. When the DAMIS user 
name and password is available in the PHMSA Portal, all registered 
users will receive an email to that effect. Operator staff with 
responsibility for submitting DAMIS reports should coordinate with 
registered PHMSA Portal users to obtain the DAMIS user name and 
password. Registered PHMSA 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 Parts 191 and 195 reporting purposes, operator staff 
responsible for submitting DAMIS reports can register in the PHMSA 
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 2014 or later DAMIS report with less than 50 total covered 
employees, the PHMSA Portal message may state that no calendar year 
2016 DAMIS report is required. Some of these operators may have grown 
to more than 50 covered employees during calendar year 2016. The PHMSA 
Portal message will include instructions for how these operators can 
obtain a calendar year 2016 DAMIS user name and password.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 21, 2016, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2016-31220 Filed 12-23-16; 8:45 am]
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95294 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 248 / Tuesday, December 27, 2016 / Notices performed covered functions as defined will include instructions for how these Transportation, 725 17th Street NW., in § 199.3. operators can obtain a calendar year Washington, DC 20503. You may also 2016 DAMIS user name and password. send comments by email to OIRA- Reminder of Method for Operators To Issued in Washington, DC, on December submission@omb.eop.gov. Obtain User Name and Password for Electronic Reporting 21, 2016, under authority delegated in 49 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: CFR 1.97. Angela Dow by telephone at 202–366– In previous years, PHMSA attempted Alan K. Mayberry, to mail the DAMIS user name and 1246, by fax at 202–366–4566, or by Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety. mail at U.S. Department of password to operator staff with responsibility for submitting DAMIS [FR Doc. 2016–31220 Filed 12–23–16; 8:45 am] Transportation, PHMSA, 1200 New reports. 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AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous This notice identifies proposed changes The user name and password required Materials Safety Administration to information collections that PHMSA for an operator to access DAMIS and (PHMSA), DOT. will submit to OMB for approval. In enter calendar year 2016 data will be order to streamline and improve the ACTION: Notice and request for available to all staff with access to the data collection processes, PHMSA is PHMSA Portal in late December 2016. comments. revising the incident report forms for When the DAMIS user name and SUMMARY: On May 13, 2016, in both hazardous liquid and gas operators. password is available in the PHMSA accordance with the Paperwork OMB Control Number 2137–0047, Portal, all registered users will receive Reduction Act of 1995, the Pipeline and an email to that effect. Operator staff which covers the collection of Hazardous Materials Safety hazardous liquid incident data, expires with responsibility for submitting Administration (PHMSA) published a DAMIS reports should coordinate with on December 31, 2016. OMB Control notice in the Federal Register to invite Number 2137–0522, which currently registered PHMSA Portal users to obtain comments on an information collection the DAMIS user name and password. covers the collection of both annual under Office of Management and Budget report and incident data for gas Registered PHMSA Portal users for an (OMB) Control No. 2137–0522 to revise operator typically include the U.S. operators, expires on October 31, 2017. three forms: (1) PHMSA F 7100.1 To simplify the renewal process of these Department of Transportation Incident Report—Gas Distribution Compliance Officer and staff or data collections in the future, PHMSA System; (2) PHMSA F 7100.2 Incident proposes collecting gas incident and gas consultants with responsibility for Report—Natural and Other Gas annual reports under separate OMB submitting annual and incident reports Transmission and Gathering Pipeline control numbers. To achieve this, on PHMSA F 7000- and 7100-series Systems; and (3) PHMSA F 7100.3 PHMSA plans to request a new OMB forms. For operators that have failed to Incident Report—Liquefied Natural Gas control number for the three gas register staff in the PHMSA Portal for (LNG) Facilities, and the instructions incident forms currently under OMB Parts 191 and 195 reporting purposes, associated with the Forms. PHMSA also Control No. 2137–0522. The remaining operator staff responsible for submitting invited comments on PHMSA F 7000– reports under this information DAMIS reports can register in the 1 Accident Report-Hazardous Liquid collection—the Gas Transmission, LNG, PHMSA Portal by following the Pipeline Systems and its associated and Mechanical Fitting Failure annual instructions at: http:// instruction under OMB control number reports—will remain under their current opsweb.phmsa.dot.gov/portal_message/ 2137–0047. OMB control number. During the 60-day comment period, The 10 comments that PHMSA PHMSA_Portal_Registration.pdf. Pursuant to §§ 199.119(a) and PHMSA received 10 comments from received in response to the May 13, 199.229(a), operators with 50 or more stakeholders in response to the 2016, Federal Register notice and covered employees, including both proposed form revisions. All request for comment, 81 FR 29943, came operator and contractor staff, are commenters, except one, supported the from the following parties: one public required to submit DAMIS reports overall proposed changes to enhance interest group (Pipeline Safety Trust annually. Operators with less than 50 pipeline safety. PHMSA is publishing (PST)); five from industry organizations total covered employees are required to this notice to respond to the specific (American Petroleum Institute (API)- report only upon written request from comments received and to announce Association of Oil Pipelines (AOPL) PHMSA. If an operator has submitted a that the information collection will be joint submission, API, American Gas asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES calendar year 2014 or later DAMIS submitted to OMB for approval. Association (AGA), Interstate Natural report with less than 50 total covered DATES: Comments must be submitted on Gas Association of America (INGAA), employees, the PHMSA Portal message or before January 26, 2017. and Common Ground Alliance (CGA)); may state that no calendar year 2016 ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding three natural gas operators (DTE Gas DAMIS report is required. Some of these the burden estimate, including Company (DTE), Southwest Gas operators may have grown to more than suggestions for reducing the burden, to Corporation (SW), Paiute Pipeline 50 covered employees during calendar OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for the Company (PPC)); and one manufacturer year 2016. 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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of Calendar Year 2017 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random Drug Testing; Reminder for Operators To Report Contractor MIS Data; and Reminder of Method for Operators To Obtain User Name and Password for Electronic Reporting.
DatesEffective January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2017.
ContactBlaine Keener, Director of Safety Data Systems and Analysis, by telephone at 202-366-0970 or by email at [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 95293 
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