Areas Unusually Sensitive to Environmental Damage

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration

49 CFR Part 195

[Docket PS-140, Notice 2]

RIN 2137-AC34

Areas Unusually Sensitive to Environmental Damage

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

ACTION: Extension of comment period.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: This notice extends the comment period for the public workshop

notice on areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage which RSPA

published May 26, 1995.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments by August 25,

1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments must be submitted in duplicate and mailed

or hand delivered to the Dockets Unit, Room 8421, U.S. Department of

Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.

Please refer to the docket and notice numbers stated in the heading of

this notice. All comments and materials cited in this document will be

available for inspection and copying in Room 8421 between 8:30 a.m. and

4:30 p.m. each business day. Non-federal employee visitors are admitted

into the DOT headquarters building through the southwest entrance at

Seventh and E Streets, SW.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina Sames, (202) 366-4561, about

this document, or the Dockets Unit, (202) 366-5046, for copies of this

document or other materials in the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 15 and 16, 1995, RSPA held a public

workshop on unusually sensitive environmental areas. The workshop's

purpose was to openly discuss the criteria being considered by RSPA to

determine areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage from a

hazardous liquid pipeline release. The criteria are needed to carry out

statutory requirements. RSPA requested that persons unable to attend

the workshop submit written comments by June 26, 1995.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) sent a letter to the docket

requesting a 60 day extension be granted for comment to the notice

announcing the public workshop on areas unusually sensitive to

environmental damage (60 FR 27948). API stated that an extension was

necessary to allow its members time to review the information in the

notice, to evaluate the potential value of the approach, and to prepare

comments for RSPA's consideration.

RSPA has decided the 60 day extension to the public comment period

is reasonable to allow API and others to evaluate and respond to the

information presented in the public workshop notice. The comment period

will therefore be extended to close on August 25, 1995.

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 60102, 60108, 60109; 49 CFR 1.53 and

Appendix A to part 106.

Issued in Washington, DC on July 3, 1995.

Cesar De Leon,

Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.

[FR Doc. 95-16811 Filed 7-7-95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910-60-P