

[Federal Register: December 28, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 248)]
[Notices]               
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket ID PHMSA-97-2995]

 
Pipeline Safety: Random Drug Testing Rate

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice of minimum annual percentage rate for random drug 
testing.

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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 
2008.

DATES: Effective January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stanley Kastanas, Director, Drug and 
Alcohol Policy and Investigations, PHMSA, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, telephone (202) 550-0629 or e-mail 
Stanley.kastanas@dot.gov.


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Operators of gas, hazardous liquid, and 
carbon dioxide pipelines and operators of liquefied natural gas 
facilities must select and test a percentage of covered employees for 
random drug testing.
    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 49 CFR199.119(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 2006, the random drug test positive rate was less than one 
percent. Therefore, the minimum random drug testing rate will remain at 
25 percent for calendar year 2008.
    In reference to the notice published in 70 FR 20800, PHMSA intends 
to publish an Advisory Bulletin specifying the methodology for 
reporting calendar year 2007 MIS contractor data to PHMSA. Therefore, 
operators must ensure records on contract employees continue to be 
maintained in calendar year 2008.

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60102, 60104, 60108, 60117, and 
60118; 49 CFR 1.53.

    Issued in Washington, DC on December 19, 2007.
Jeffrey D. Wiese,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. E7-25136 Filed 12-27-07; 8:45 am]

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