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Comments are invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of
the Department’s estimate of the burden
of the proposed information collection;
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents.
Public Participation
How do I prepare and submit
comments?
Your comments must be written and
in English. To ensure that your
comments are filed correctly in the
Docket, please include the docket
number of this document in your
comments. Your comments must not be
more than 15 pages long (see 49 CFR
553.21). We established this limit to
encourage you to write your primary
comments in a concise fashion.
However, you may attach necessary
additional documents to your
comments. There is no limit on the
length of the attachments.
If you are submitting comments in
hard copy, please submit two copies of
your comments, including the
attachments, to DOT’s Docket
Management at the address given under
ADDRESSES.
You may also submit your comments
to the docket electronically by logging
onto http://www.regulations.gov. Click
on ‘‘Help’’ at the top of the screen to
obtain instructions for filing the
document electronically.
How can I be sure that my comments
were received?
If you wish DOT’s Docket
Management to notify you upon its
receipt of your comments, enclose a
self-addressed, stamped postcard in the
envelope containing your comments.
Upon receiving your comments, Docket
Management will return the postcard by
mail.

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How do I submit confidential business
information?
If you wish to submit any information
under a claim of confidentiality, you
should submit three copies of your
complete submission, including the
information you claim to be confidential
business information, to the Chief
Counsel, NHTSA, at the address given
above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. In addition, you should
submit two copies, from which you
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business information, to Docket
Management at the address given above
under ADDRESSES. When you send a
comment containing information
claimed to be confidential business
information, you should include a cover
letter setting forth the information
specified in our confidential business
information regulation (49 CFR part
512).
Will the Agency consider late
comments?
We will consider all comments that
Docket Management receives before the
close of business on the comment
closing date indicated above under
DATES. To the extent possible, we also
will consider comments that Docket
Management receives after that date. If
Docket Management receives a comment
too late for us to consider it, we will
consider that comment as an informal
suggestion for future rulemaking action.
How can I read the comments submitted
by other people?
You may read the comments received
by Docket Management at the address
given under ADDRESSES. The hours of
the Docket are indicated above in the
same location. You also may see the
comments on the Internet. To read the
comments on the Internet, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
instructions for accessing the Docket.
Please note that even after the
comment closing date, we will continue
to file relevant information in the
Docket as it becomes available. Further,
some people may submit late comments.
Accordingly, we recommend that you
periodically check the Docket for new
material.
Gregory A. Walter,
Senior Associate Administrator, Policy and
Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2013–0061]

Pipeline Safety: Information Collection
Activities
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
PHMSA invites comments on an

SUMMARY:

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information collection under Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Control
No. 2137–0047, titled ‘‘Transportation
of Hazardous Liquids by Pipeline:
Recordkeeping and Accident
Reporting.’’ PHMSA is preparing to
revise Form PHMSA F 7000–1
ACCIDENT REPORT—HAZARDOUS
LIQUID PIPELINE SYSTEMS which is
included in this information collection.
In an effort to streamline processes,
PHMSA is also proposing to include
within this information collection,
information currently collected under
OMB Control No. 2137–0598 regarding
the incorporation by reference of the
industry standard on leak detection.
This recordkeeping requirement
supports pipeline inspection and
improves pipeline safety by providing
early detection of a pipeline leak.
PHMSA will request approval from
OMB for the revision of the information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before June 24,
2013.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted in the following ways:
E-Gov Web site: http://
www.regulations.gov. This site allows
the public to enter comments on any
Federal Register notice issued by any
agency.
Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
West Building, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on the
ground level of the West Building, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Instructions: Identify the docket
number, PHMSA–2013–0061, at the
beginning of your comments. Note that
all comments received will be posted
without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. You
should know that anyone is able to
search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
Therefore, you may want to review
DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement
in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477) or visit
http://www.regulations.gov before
submitting any such comments.
Docket: For access to the docket or to
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comments, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or to
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
If you wish to receive confirmation of
receipt of your written comments,
please include a self-addressed,
stamped postcard with the following
statement: ‘‘Comments on PHMSA–
2013–0061.’’ The Docket Clerk will date
stamp the postcard prior to returning it
to you via the U.S. mail. Please note that
due to delays in the delivery of U.S.
mail to Federal offices in Washington,
DC, we recommend that persons
consider an alternative method
(internet, fax, or professional delivery
service) of submitting comments to the
docket and ensuring their timely receipt
at DOT.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Angela Dow by telephone at 202–366–
1246, by email at
mailto:[email protected], by fax at
202–366–4566, or by mail at DOT,
PHMSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
PHP–2, Washington, DC 20590–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
Section 1320.8(d), Title 5, Code of
Federal Regulations, requires PHMSA to
provide interested members of the
public and affected agencies an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping requests.
This notice identifies an information
collection request that PHMSA will be
submitting to OMB for revision and
extension. The information collection
expires January 31, 2014, and is
identified under OMB Control No.
2137–0047, titled: ‘‘Transportation of
Hazardous Liquids by Pipeline:
Recordkeeping and Accident
Reporting.’’

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B. Hazardous Liquid Accident Report
PHMSA intends to revise the Form
PHMSA F 7000–1 ACCIDENT
REPORT—HAZARDOUS LIQUID
PIPELINE SYSTEMS (Hazardous Liquid
Accident Report, report) to collect more
information for smaller spills, require
additional fields, and revise the
instructions. Background for these
topics is as follows:
Collect additional information for
certain low consequence events:
Currently, if a release is at least 5
gallons but is less than 5 barrels with no
additional consequences such as, a
release in the water, or a fire or
explosion, and property damage is less
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or injury is involved, operators submit
a report with less information than for
releases that do not meet this criteria.
The required fields for the smaller
releases with lesser impact are indicated
on the form by grey shading. For
accidents reported for calendar years
2011 and 2012, 47% of the reports were
for releases that required minimal
information. As a result, PHMSA is
missing valuable data for approximately
half of the reportable accidents.
Therefore, PHMSA proposes to collect
the same data for all releases. This will
result in the collection of the following
data for smaller releases with lesser
consequences including: Part C—pipe
characteristics and specification, Part
D—consequence information, Part E—
operating information, Part F—drug and
alcohol testing information, and Part
G—details of the cause. These reports
are used for identifying long- and shortterm trends at the national, state and
operator-specific levels. The frequency,
causes, and consequences of the
accidents provide insight into the safety
metrics currently used by PHMSA, state
partners, and other pipeline safety
stakeholders, including the pipeline
industry and general public. PHMSA
also uses the data for inspection
planning and risk assessment. Based on
previous reporting years, PHMSA
estimates that 400 accident reports
(responses) are submitted each year.
PHMSA estimates that 200 forms report
releases that use all data fields and take
approximately 10 hours to file, while
200 forms require approximately five
hours to complete because there is less
information to report. If PHMSA’s
proposal to collect the same information
for all types of reportable accidents is
approved, all reports will take
approximately 10 hours to file resulting
in an additional 1,000 burden hours.
Revise instructions for Volume Spilled
(Part A9) and Volume Recovered (Part
A11):
The volume spilled is critical data
used to assess the impact of an
individual spill and the long-term
performance of the hazardous liquid
pipeline industry. Prior to 2010, the
instructions provided no guidance for
either the volume spilled or the volume
recovered. In 2010, PHMSA added
instructions for the volume spilled
explaining that the reported volume
should include all product exiting the
pipeline system. The volume recovered
should include all product collected
during spill response. In 2012, PHMSA
modified the instructions by ending the
volume spilled at the point where the
operator gained control of the release
and began immediately collecting the
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Instructions for the volume recovered
were modified to also exclude volume
collected immediately as it exited the
pipeline system. Since this change was
implemented, several PHMSA staff
members have expressed concerns about
long term trending. Although specific
guidance was not provided prior to
2010, operators generally included all
product exiting the system as volume
spilled, regardless of whether the
operator immediately collected the
product. Since the change implemented
in 2012 appears to have resulted in a
significant departure from past practice,
PHMSA is proposing to revise the
current instructions for reporting
volume to stipulate that the reported
volume spilled should include all
product exiting the pipeline system.
Likewise, the volume recovered should
include all product collected during
spill response, as was the general
practice prior to the revision made in
2012.
Revise instructions for time sequence
(Part A18):
In a report titled, ‘‘PIPELINE SAFETY
Better Data and Guidance Needed to
Improve Pipeline Operator Incident
Response,’’ (GAO–13–168) the
Government Accountability Office
recommends that PHMSA improve the
reliability of incident response data.
PHMSA proposes to require the time
sequence fields in part A18 for every
report. PHMSA has modified the
instructions to clarify that PHMSA will
use the time sequence data to calculate
accident response time.
Revise instructions for National
Response Center Report (NRC) Number:
PHMSA proposes to require this field
in every report. PHMSA recognizes that
in some cases operators are not required
to submit an NRC report. In others,
operators may submit multiple NRC
reports for a single accident. Operators
will be able to enter a single NRC
number or select one of the following:
NRC notification not required; NRC
notification required but not made; or
NRC report number not known. When
there is more than one NRC report for
an accident, operators will be instructed
to enter the first report in this field and
remaining NRC report numbers in Part
H—Narrative.
Revise instructions for City:
PHMSA proposes to require this field
in every report of an accident that
occurs onshore to facilitate
understanding about the location of the
accident. Operators will also be able to
enter ‘‘not within a municipality’’ in
this field.
Revise instructions for County or
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PHMSA proposes to require this field
in every report of an accident that
occurs onshore to facilitate
understanding about the location of the
accident.
Revise instructions for Accident
Preparer and Authorizer:
PHMSA proposes to require the name,
email address, and phone number for
each of these individuals in every
report. PHMSA and state investigators
need this contact information to
facilitate communication with the
operator. If an individual does not have
a work email address, the individual
will be able to enter ‘‘no email address’’
in this field.
C. Incorporation by Reference of
Industry Standard on Leak Detection
Sections 195.134 and 195.444 of the
Federal pipeline safety regulations
require operators of hazardous liquid
pipeline facilities installing new
computational pipeline monitoring
(CPM) leak detection systems or
replacing components of existing CPM
systems to comply with section 4.2 of
the American Petroleum Institute’s
recommended practice API 1130
‘‘Computational Pipeline Monitoring for
Liquid Pipelines’’ (API 1130). API 1130
section 4.2 provides information
collection and maintenance guidance on
many factors such as measurement
capabilities, communications reliability,
pipeline operating condition, and
product type. PHMSA reviews this
information during pipeline inspection.
The information supports the pipeline
inspection and improves pipeline safety
by providing early detection of a
pipeline leak. This information is
currently collected under OMB Control
No. 2137–0598. Because this
recordkeeping requirement is unique to
hazardous liquid operators, PHMSA
proposes to incorporate it into this
package that currently contains
recordkeeping and reporting
requirements for hazardous liquid
operators. The incorporation of this
information collection will add 50
responses and 100 burden hours to
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D. Summary of Impacted Collection
The following information is provided
for this information collection: (1) Title
of the information collection; (2) OMB
control number; (3) Type of request; (4)
Abstract of the information collection
activity; (5) Description of affected
public; (6) Estimate of total annual
reporting and recordkeeping burden;
and (7) Frequency of collection. PHMSA
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activity. PHMSA requests comments on
the following information collection:
Title: Transportation of Hazardous
Liquids by Pipeline: Recordkeeping and
Accident Reporting.
OMB Control Number: 2137–0047.
Current Expiration Date: 1/31/2014.
Type of Request: Revision.
Abstract: This information collection
covers recordkeeping and accident
reporting by hazardous liquid pipeline
operators who are subject to 49 CFR Part
195. Section 195.444 requires operators
of single-phase hazardous liquid
pipeline facilities that use CPM leak
detection systems to comply with the
standards set out in American
Petroleum Institute (API) publication
API 1130. Compliance with API 1130,
including its recordkeeping
requirements, supports pipeline safety
by ensuring the proper functioning of
CPM leak detection systems. Section
195.50 specifies the definition of an
‘‘accident’’ and the reporting criteria for
submitting a Hazardous Liquid Accident
Report (PHMSA Form PHMSA F7000–1)
is detailed in § 195.54. PHMSA is
proposing to revise the Hazardous
Liquid Accident Report to collect more
data on small spills and to revise the
instructions for completing the form.
Affected Public: Hazardous liquid
pipeline operators.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping
Burden:
Annual Responses: 897.
Annual Burden Hours: 52,429.
Frequency of collection: On Occasion.
Comments are invited on:
(a) The need for the proposed
collection of information for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques.
Jeffrey D. Wiese,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Internal Revenue Service
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request for Notice 2010–28
Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of the
Treasury, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is
soliciting comments concerning Notice
2010–28, Stripping Transactions for
Qualified Tax Credit Bonds.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before June 24, 2013 to
be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Yvette Lawrence, Internal Revenue
Service, room 6129, 1111 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of notice should be directed to
Sara Covington, at (202) 622–3945, or at
Internal Revenue Service, room 6129,
1111 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20224, or through the
Internet, at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Stripping Transactions for
Qualified Tax Credit Bonds.
OMB Number: 1545–2167.
Notice Number: Notice 2010–28.
Abstract: The IRS requires the
information to ensure compliance with
the tax credit bond credit coupon
stripping requirements, including
ensuring that no excess tax credit is
taken by holders of bonds and coupons
strips. The information is required in
order to inform holders of qualified tax
credit bonds whether the credit coupons
relating to those bonds may be stripped
as provided under § 54A(i). The
respondents are issuers of tax credit
bonds, including states and local
governments and other eligible issuers.
Current Actions: There are no changes
being made to the notice at this time.
Type of Review: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: State, local or tribal
governments and not-for-profit
institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,000.
SUMMARY:

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