International Standards on the Transport of Dangerous Goods; Public Meetings

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23897-23898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11107]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration


International Standards on the Transport of Dangerous Goods; 
Public Meetings

Agency

Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), Department of Transportation.

Action

Notice of public meetings.

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Summary

This notice is to advise interested persons that RSPA will conduct public meetings in preparation for and to report the results of the sixteenth session of the United Nation's Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNSCOE) to be held July 5 through July 16, 1999 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dates

June 24, 1999, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM; July 20, 1999, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM.

Addresses

Both meetings will be held in room 6332-36, Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20590.

For Further Information Contact

Frits Wybenga, International Standards Coordinator, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, or Bob Richard, Assistant International Standards Coordinator, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC 20590; (202) 366-0656.

Supplementary Information

The primary purpose of the first meeting will be to prepare for the sixteenth session of the UNSCOE and to discuss U.S. positions on UNSCOE proposals. The primary purpose of the second meeting will be to provide a briefing on the outcome of the session and to prepare for the seventeenth session of the UNSCOE and to discuss U.S. positions on UNSCOEwhich is scheduled for December 6-17, 1999 in Geneva, Switzerland. Topics to be covered during the public meeting include: (1) Global harmonization of classification criteria, (2) Reformatting the UN Recommendations into a model rule, (3) Criteria for Environmentally Hazardous Substances, (4) Intermodal portable tank requirements, (5) Requirements applicable to small quantities of hazardous materials in transport (limited quantities), (6) Harmonized requirements for compressed gas cylinders, (7) Classification of individual substances, (8) Requirements for bulk and non-bulk packagings used to transport hazardous materials, (9) Requirements for Toxic by Inhalation (TIH) substances, (10) Hazard communication requirements including harmonized shipping papers, (11)

Segregation in freight containers and (12) Requirements for infectious substances. The public is invited to attend without prior notification.

Documents

Copies of documents submitted to the sixteenth session of the UNSCOE meeting may be obtained by downloading them from the United Nations Transport Division's web site at www.unece.org/trans/ main/dgdb/dgsubc/dgscomm.html. Information concerning UN dangerous goods meetings including agendas can be downloaded at https:// www.unece.org/trans/danger/meetings.htm#ST/SG. These sites may also be accessed through RSPA's Hazardous Materials Safety Homepage at https:// hazmat.dot.gov/intstandards.htm.

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 28, 1999. Robert A. McGuire, Deputy Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety. [FR Doc. 99-11107 Filed 5-3-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-60-M