# Pipeline Safety: Senior Executive Signature and Certification of Integrity Management Program Performance Reports

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- **summary:** Pipeline Safety: Senior Executive Signature and Certification of Integrity Management Program Performance Reports Document E7-7602.pdf (142.3 KB) On December 29, 2006, the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act was signed into law. The law, known as the PIPES Act, includes a provision requiring the senior executive officers of pipeline operating companies to certify annual and semiannual pipeline
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Pipeline Safety: Senior Executive Signature and Certification of Integrity Management Program Performance Reports

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 E7-7602.pdf (142.3 KB)

        On December 29, 2006, the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act was signed into law. The law, known as the PIPES Act, includes a provision requiring the senior executive officers of pipeline operating companies to certify annual and semiannual pipeline integrity management program performance reports. This advisory provides information to assist pipeline operators with certifying future submissions of annual and semiannual pipeline integrity management program performance reports.

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control room safety and minimize risk
associated with fatigue and interaction
with computer equipment. These areas
include annual validation of controller
qualifications by senior level executives
of pipeline companies, clearly defined
responsibilities for controllers in
responding to abnormal operating
conditions, the use of formalized
procedures for information exchange
during shift turnover, and clearly
established shift lengths combined with
education on strategies to reduce the
contribution of non-work activities to
fatigue.
This workshop will build on work
done in the June 2006 workshop on
controller issues. PHMSA will include
panels drawn from the entire enterprise
to discuss noteworthy practices in the
various areas. We anticipate panels on
fatigue and other control room
management issues. These issues
include both those directly relating to
the individuals, such as qualifications
and fatigue, as well as the systems and
processes controllers use that can affect
pipeline safety and integrity.
In particular, PHMSA seeks
information about best practices and
standards that would accomplish the
following:
1. Clearly define the roles and
responsibilities of controllers to ensure
their prompt and appropriate response
to abnormal operating conditions.
2. Formalize procedures for recording
critical information and for exchanging
information during shift turn-over.
3. Establish shift lengths and schedule
rotations to protect against the onset of
fatigue, and educate controllers and
their supervisors in fatigue mitigation
strategies and how non-work activities
contribute to fatigue.
4. Periodically review the supervisory
control and data acquisition systems
(SCADA) displays to insure controllers
are getting clear and reliable
information from field stations and
devices.
5. Periodically audit alarm
configurations and handling procedures
to provide confidence in alarm signals
and to ensure controller effectiveness.
6. Involve controllers when planning
and implementing changes in
operations, and maintain strong
communications between controllers
and field personnel.
7. Determine how to establish,
maintain, and review controller
qualifications, abilities and performance
metrics, with particular attention to
response to abnormal operating
conditions.
8. Analyze operating experience
including accidents and incidents for
possible involvement of the SCADA
system, controller performance, and
fatigue.
9. Validate the adequacy of controller-
related procedures, training and the
qualifications of controllers, possibly
annually through involvement by senior
level executives of pipeline companies.
PHMSA also expressly seeks
comments on the potential for including
PTP within IM.
III. Preliminary Workshop Agenda
The preliminary agenda for this
workshop includes briefings on the
following topics:
• Prevention through People’
Overview.
• Purpose and Goals of Workshop.
• Fatigue and SCADA–NTSB.
• Fatigue-Panel Discussion.
• Computer Interface and Change
Management—Panel Discussion.
• Control Room Practices—Panel
Discussion.
• Risk Approach to Control Room
Management—PHMSA.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 60102, 60117.
Issued in Washington, DC on April 17,
2007.
Joy Kadnar,
Director, Office of Engineering and Emergency
Support.
[FR Doc. 07–1987 Filed 4–18–07; 10:40 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–60–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–04–19856]
Pipeline Safety: Senior Executive
Signature and Certification of Integrity
Management Program Performance
Reports
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; Issuance of advisory
bulletin.
SUMMARY: On December 29, 2006, the
Pipeline Inspection, Protection,
Enforcement and Safety Act was signed
into law. The law, known as the PIPES
Act, includes a provision requiring the
senior executive officers of pipeline
operating companies to certify annual
and semiannual pipeline integrity
management program performance
reports. This advisory provides
information to assist pipeline operators
with certifying future submissions of
annual and semiannual pipeline
integrity management program
performance reports.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Zach Barrett at (405) 954–5559 or by e-
mail at
zach.barrett@dot.gov; or Wayne Lemoi
at (404) 832–1160, or by e-mail at
wayne.lemoi@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 16 of the PIPES Act requires
PHMSA to establish procedures for a
pipeline operator’s senior executive
officer to certify annual and semiannual
pipeline integrity management program
performance reports with their
signature. Specifically, the law requires
each report to include a signed
statement certifying that the senior
executive officer has reviewed the
report and to the best of the senior
executive officer’s knowledge and
belief, this report is true and complete.
PHMSA is modifying its electronic
filing to assist pipeline operators with
complying with section 16 of the PIPES
Act electronically. In addition, this
advisory informs operators not filing
electronically how to comply with
section 16.
II. Advisory Bulletin ADB–07–01
To: Operators of Natural Gas and
Hazardous Liquid Pipelines.
Subject: Senior Executive Officer
Signature and Certification of Integrity
Management Program Performance
Reports.
Purpose: To inform operators of
natural gas and hazardous liquid
pipelines on how to meet the
requirement for a senior executive
officer’s signature and certification on
pipeline integrity management program
(IMP) performance reports.
Advisory: Section 16 of the PIPES Act
requires pipeline operators to have a
senior executive officer of the company
sign and certify annual and semiannual
IMP performance reports. By signing,
the senior executive officer is certifying
that the senior executive officer has
reviewed the report and to the best of
the senior executive officer’s knowledge
and belief, this report is true and
complete. To assist pipeline operators
with complying with the section 16
requirement, we are providing the
following procedures for those operators
of natural gas pipelines and hazardous
liquid pipelines required to file IMP
reports. Pipeline operators should
follow these procedures for future
submissions of annual and semiannual
IMP performance reports.
Gas Integrity Management Program
Performance Measures Reports
Operators of gas transmission
pipelines are required by 49 CFR
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192.945 to submit IMP performance
measures semiannually to PHMSA.
Operators are encouraged to submit the
IMP reports using the electronic form
available on PHMSA’s Web site at
http://phmsa.dot.gov.
To minimize future transcription and
handling and to lessen the chance for
errors, PHMSA is modifying the gas IMP
electronic form to reflect the new legal
requirement for a senior executive
officer’s certification and signature.
Operators should enter the name and
title of the senior executive officer
certifying the report in the appropriate
blanks on the form and in the signature
block on the form. Operators should
keep in mind that entering the senior
executive officer’s name onto the
electronic form is equivalent to a paper
submission and has the same legal
authenticity and requirements as a
paper document.
In lieu of electronic filing, operators
can mail or fax the reports to PHMSA.
If submitting by mail or fax, the name
and title of the senior executive officer
certifying the report should be entered
in the appropriate blanks on the form.
The senior executive officer should
certify the report by signing this form in
the signature block.
Hazardous Liquid Integrity Management
Program Annual Reports
PHMSA requires hazardous liquid
pipeline operators to submit annual
reports providing information about
their pipeline infrastructure and their
integrity management program.
Operators are required to submit these
reports annually and by June 15 for the
previous calendar year in accordance
with 49 CFR 195.49.
Operators of hazardous liquid
pipelines are encouraged to use the
Online Data Entry System (ODES)
available at the PHMSA Web site
located at http://phmsa.dot.gov to
submit annual reports. To minimize
future transcription and handling and to
lessen the chance for errors, we are
modifying the ODES electronic form to
reflect the new legal requirement for a
senior executive officer certification and
signature. Operators should enter the
name and title of the senior executive
officer certifying the report in the
appropriate blanks on the form and in
the signature block on the form.
Operators should keep in mind that
entering the senior executive officer’s
name onto the electronic form is
equivalent to a paper submission and
has the same legal authenticity and
requirements as a paper document.
Operators may also submit the annual
report to PHMSA by mail or fax in
accordance with 49 CFR 195.58. If
submitting by mail or fax, the name and
title of the senior executive officer
certifying the report should be entered
in the appropriate blanks on the form.
The senior executive officer should
certify the report by signing the form in
the signature block.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. chapter 601 and 49
CFR 1.53.
Issued in Washington, DC on April 13,
2007.
Jeffrey D. Wiese,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline
Safety.
[FR Doc. E7–7602 Filed 4–20–07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–60–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Departmental Offices; Renewal of the
Treasury Borrowing Advisory
Committee of the Bond Market
Association and Name Change to the
Treasury Borrowing Advisory
Committee of the Securities Industry
and Financial Markets Association
ACTION: Notice of renewal and name
change.
The Committee meets to consider
special items on which its advice is
sought pertaining to immediate
Treasury funding requirements and
pertaining to longer term approaches to
manage the national debt in a cost-
effective manner. The Committee
usually meets immediately before the
Treasury announces each mid-calendar
quarter funding operation, although
special meetings also may be held.
Membership consists of 10–15
individuals who are experts in the
government securities market and who
are involved in senior positions in debt
markets as institutional investors,
investment advisors, or as dealers in
government securities.
The Designated Federal Official for
the Advisory Committee is the Director
of the Office of Debt Management. The
Treasury Department is filing copies of
the Committee’s renewal charter with
appropriate committees in Congress.
Dated: April 17, 2007.
Anthony W. Ryan,
Assistant Secretary, Financial Markets.
[FR Doc. 07–1981 Filed 4–20–07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4811–42–M
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (Pub. L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App.
2), with the concurrence of the General
Services Administration, the Secretary
of the Treasury has determined that
renewal of the Treasury Borrowing
Advisory Committee of The Bond
Market Association (the ‘‘Committee’’)
is necessary and in the public interest
in connection with the performance of
duties imposed on the Department of
the Treasury by law.
Effective November 1, 2006, the name
of the Bond Market Association was
changed to the Securities Industry and
Financial Markets Association following
the merger of the Securities Industry
Association and the Bond Market
Association. Hence, the name of the
Committee has been changed to reflect
this merger. The new name is the
Treasury Borrowing Advisory
Committee of the Securities Industry
and Financial Markets Association.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karthik Ramanathan, Director, Office of
Debt Management (202) 622–2042.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the Committee is to provide
informed advice as representatives of
the financial community to the
Secretary of the Treasury and Treasury
staff, upon the Secretary of the
Treasury’s request, in carrying out
Treasury responsibilities for federal
financing and public debt management.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade
Bureau
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and
Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY: As part of our continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, and as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
we invite comments on the proposed or
continuing information collections
listed below in this notice.
DATES: We must receive your written
comments on or before June 22, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments to
Mary A. Wood, Alcohol and Tobacco
Tax and Trade Bureau, at any of these
addresses:
• P.O. Box 14412, Washington, DC
20044–4412;
• 202–927–8525 (facsimile); or
• formcomments@ttb.gov (e-mail).
Please send separate comments for
each specific information collection
listed below. You must reference the
information collection’s title, form or
recordkeeping requirement number, and
OMB number (if any) in your comment.
If you submit your comment via
facsimile, send no more than five 8.5 x
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