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Meeting - Pipeline Safety: Coastal Ecological Unusually Sensitive Areas
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| Date(s) | November 17, 2017(8:30 - 17:00) | |
| Venue: | To be determined | |
Times above are in the Eastern Time Zone.
PHMSA will hold a one-day public meeting to discuss applicable definitions and available geospatial information system (GIS) data sources for marine coastal waters, coastal beaches and the Great Lakes, pertaining to Coastal Ecological Unusually Sensitive Areas (USA).
Section 19 of the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016 requires PHMSA to expand the definition of an Ecological resource USA (as defined in 49 CFR 195.6(b)) to include coastal beaches, marine coastal waters, and the Great Lakes. USAs are treated as high consequence areas (HCAs), which are subject to stricter safety and maintenance standards (such as 49 CFR 195.452). To address this mandate, PHMSA must define and map these areas. The focus of this one-day public meeting is to bring pipeline safety stakeholders together to discuss applicable definitions and available GIS data sources for these areas. Stakeholder feedback may inform future policy efforts impacting the definition of a Coastal Ecological USA.
The meeting will be held at a location yet to be determined in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. The meeting location, agenda and any additional information will be published once they are finalized on the following public meeting registration page at the website listed below.
The meeting will not be webcast; however, a conference call number and presentation slides will be available to remote participants, and any documents presented will be available on the meeting Web site and posted on the E-Gov Web site at http://www.regulations.gov in docket number PHMSA-2017-0094 within 30 days following the meeting.
For information about the meeting, contact Leigha Gooding using the information listed below. | |
| Location: | Washington, DC | |
| Point of Contact: | Leigha Gooding | |
| Email: | 202-366-0667 / leigha.gooding@dot.gov | |
| Event Website: | https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/MtgHome.mtg?mtg=129 | |
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