[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76078-76079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-30605]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket ID PHMSA-2010-0323]
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
2011.
DATES: Effective January 1, 2011, through December 31, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stanley Kastanas, Program Manager,
Substance Abuse Prevention Program, PHMSA, U.S. Department of
Transportation, telephone 202-550-0629 or e-mail
[email protected].
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 CFR
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 2009, 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 2011.
On January 19, 2010, PHMSA published an Advisory Bulletin (75 FR
2926) implementing the annual collection of contractor MIS drug and
alcohol testing data. All applicable Sec. 199.119 (drug testing) and
Sec. 199.229 (alcohol testing) MIS reporting operators are responsible
for the submission of all contractor MIS reports to PHMSA, as well as
their own, by March 15, 2011.
Contractors with employees in safety-sensitive positions who
performed, as defined in Sec. 199.3 of 49 CFR part 199, covered
functions, must submit these reports only through the auspices of each
operator for whom these covered employees performed those covered
functions (i.e., maintenance, operations or emergency response).
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60102, 60104, 60108, 60117, and
60118; 49 CFR 1.53.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2010.
Jeffrey D. Wiese,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2010-30605 Filed 12-6-10; 8:45 am]
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