{"operation":"document","citation":"PI-90-003","title":"International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers — Pipeline Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1990-02-13","effective_on":null,"summary":"PI-90-003 response to International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers concerning 199.3.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-90-003.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-90-003.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-90-003","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/docs/standards-rulemaking/pipeline/interpretations/76291/pi-90003.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nFebruary 13, 1990\nMr. Bill Quilhot\nPresident\nLocal Union 1582\nInternational Brotherhood of\nElectrical Workers\nAurora, Illinois 60426\nDear Mr. Quilhot:\nYour letters of December 26, 1989, and January 30, 1990, ask for additional clarification of whether an\nemployee known as a \"service clerk\" who takes calls pertaining to gas pipeline leaks would be subject\nto drug testing under DOT's rules in 49 CFR Part 199.\nI can affirm the understanding that Mike Youngs of Northern Illinois Gas expressed about such\nemployees in his letter to Bea Vandervalk dated October 25, 1989. Any pipeline company employee\nwho is responsible for receiving telephone notices of gas leaks, identifying those notices that require\nimmediate response by the company, and dispatching personnel to the scene would be subject to drug\ntesting. The employee would be covered by the rules because he or she would be performing on a\npipeline emergency-response functions that are regulated under 49 CFR Part 192, specifically\n§ 192.615 concerning emergency plans. In general, as provided by the Part 199 definition of\n\"employee,\" any person who performs on a gas pipeline a regulated operating, maintenance, or\nemergency-response function is subject to drug testing.\nI trust this satisfactorily responds to your inquiry.\nSincerely,\nGeorge W. Tenley, Jr.\nDirector\nOffice of Pipeline Safety\ndal/199.1\n90-02-13","truncated":false,"body_characters":1387}