[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR106.45]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

   CHAPTER I--PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, 

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 106_RULEMAKING PROCEDURES--Table of Contents

 

                  Subpart A_PHMSA Rulemaking Documents

 

Sec. 106.45  Tracking rulemaking actions.



    The following identifying numbers allow you to track PHMSA's 

rulemaking activities:

    (a) Docket number. We assign an identifying number, called a docket 

number, to each rulemaking proceeding. Each rulemaking document that 

PHMSA issues in a particular rulemaking proceeding will display the same 

docket number. This number allows you to do the following:



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    (1) Associate related documents that appear in the Federal Register.

    (2) Search the DOT Docket Management System (``DMS'') for 

information on particular rulemaking proceedings--including notices of 

proposed rulemaking, public comments, petitions for rulemaking, appeals, 

records of additional rulemaking proceedings and final rules. There are 

two ways you can search the DMS:

    (i) Visit the public docket room and review and copy any docketed 

materials during regular business hours. The DOT Docket Management 

System is located at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Plaza Level 

401, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.

    (ii) View and download docketed materials through the Internet at 

http://dms.dot.gov.

    (b) Regulation identifier number. The Department of Transportation 

publishes a semiannual agenda of all current and projected Department of 

Transportation rulemakings, reviews of existing regulations, and 

completed actions. This semiannual agenda appears in the Unified Agenda 

of Federal Regulations that is published in the Federal Register in 

April and October of each year. The semiannual agenda tells the public 

about the Department's--including PHMSA's--regulatory activities. The 

Department assigns a regulation identifier number (RIN) to each 

individual rulemaking proceeding in the semiannual agenda. This number 

appears on all rulemaking documents published in the Federal Register 

and makes it easy for you to track those rulemaking proceedings in both 

the Federal Register and the semiannual regulatory agenda itself, as 

well as to locate all documents in the Docket Management System 

pertaining to a particular rulemaking.



[70 FR 56088, Sept. 23, 2005]