[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 95293-95294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31220]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket ID PHMSA-2016-0147]
Pipeline Safety: Random Drug Testing Rate; Contractor Management
Information System Reporting; and Obtaining Drug and Alcohol Management
Information System Sign-In Information
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Calendar Year 2017 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for
Random Drug Testing; Reminder for Operators To Report Contractor MIS
Data; and Reminder of Method for Operators To Obtain User Name and
Password for Electronic Reporting.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA has determined that the minimum random drug testing rate
for covered employees will remain at 25 percent during calendar year
2017. Operators are reminded that drug and alcohol testing information
must be submitted for contractors performing or ready to perform
covered functions. For calendar year 2016 reporting, PHMSA will not
attempt to mail the ``user name'' and ``password'' for the Drug and
Alcohol Management Information System (DAMIS) to operators, but will
make the user name and password available in the PHMSA Portal (https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline).
DATES: Effective January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blaine Keener, Director of Safety Data
Systems and Analysis, by telephone at 202-366-0970 or by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice of Calendar Year 2017 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random
Drug Testing
Operators of gas, hazardous liquid, and carbon dioxide pipelines
and operators of liquefied natural gas facilities must randomly select
and test a percentage of covered employees for prohibited drug use.
Pursuant to 49 CFR 199.105(c)(2), (3), and (4), the PHMSA
Administrator's decision on whether to change the minimum annual random
drug testing rate is based on the reported random drug test positive
rate for the pipeline industry. The data considered by the
Administrator comes from operators' annual submissions of Management
Information System (MIS) reports required by Sec. 199.119(a). If the
reported random drug test positive rate is less than one percent, the
Administrator may continue the minimum random drug testing rate at 25
percent. In calendar year 2015, the random drug test positive rate was
less than one percent. Therefore, the PHMSA minimum annual random drug
testing selection rate will remain at 25 percent for calendar year
2017.
Reminder for Operators To Report Contractor MIS Data
On January 19, 2010, PHMSA published an Advisory Bulletin (75 FR
2926) implementing the annual collection of contractor MIS drug and
alcohol testing data. An operator's report to PHMSA is not considered
complete until an MIS report is submitted for each contractor that
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performed covered functions as defined in Sec. 199.3.
Reminder of Method for Operators To Obtain User Name and Password for
Electronic Reporting
In previous years, PHMSA attempted to mail the DAMIS user name and
password to operator staff with responsibility for submitting DAMIS
reports. Based on the number of phone calls to PHMSA each year
requesting this information, the mailing process has not been
effective. Pipeline operators have been submitting reports required by
Parts 191 and 195 through the PHMSA Portal (https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline) since 2011. Each company with an Office
of Pipeline Safety issued Operator Identification Number should employ
staff with access to the PHMSA Portal.
The user name and password required for an operator to access DAMIS
and enter calendar year 2016 data will be available to all staff with
access to the PHMSA Portal in late December 2016. When the DAMIS user
name and password is available in the PHMSA Portal, all registered
users will receive an email to that effect. Operator staff with
responsibility for submitting DAMIS reports should coordinate with
registered PHMSA Portal users to obtain the DAMIS user name and
password. Registered PHMSA Portal users for an operator typically
include the U.S. Department of Transportation Compliance Officer and
staff or consultants with responsibility for submitting annual and
incident reports on PHMSA F 7000- and 7100-series forms.
For operators that have failed to register staff in the PHMSA
Portal for Parts 191 and 195 reporting purposes, operator staff
responsible for submitting DAMIS reports can register in the PHMSA
Portal by following the instructions at: http://opsweb.phmsa.dot.gov/portal_message/PHMSA_Portal_Registration.pdf.
Pursuant to Sec. Sec. 199.119(a) and 199.229(a), operators with 50
or more covered employees, including both operator and contractor
staff, are required to submit DAMIS reports annually. Operators with
less than 50 total covered employees are required to report only upon
written request from PHMSA. If an operator has submitted a calendar
year 2014 or later DAMIS report with less than 50 total covered
employees, the PHMSA Portal message may state that no calendar year
2016 DAMIS report is required. Some of these operators may have grown
to more than 50 covered employees during calendar year 2016. The PHMSA
Portal message will include instructions for how these operators can
obtain a calendar year 2016 DAMIS user name and password.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December 21, 2016, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2016-31220 Filed 12-23-16; 8:45 am]
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