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  1. DOT/OPS Issues Final Gas Pipeline Integrity Management Rule
  2. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  3. Stress Corrosion Cracking Meeting Materials
  4. OCS Rights-of-Use and Easement and Pipeline Rights-of-Way
  5. Periodic Underwater Inspections: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
  6. Need A HAZMAT Security Plan?
  7. Notice of Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random Drug Testing
  8. Reorganization of the Office of Pipeline Safety
  9. NESHAP – Bulk Gasoline Terminals and Pipeline Breakout Stations
  10. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  11. Advisory Bulletin (ADB-03-09) Re: Potential Service Disruptions in SCADA Systems
  12. The Texas Railroad Commission to Hold the 54th Annual State of the Industry Meeting
  13. Texas Railroad Commission to begin Formulation of Texas Energy Plan
  14. Acquiring a pipeline?
  15. OPS, PRCI and GTI Hosts Pipeline R&D; Forum
  16. TCEQ Releases 2003 Enforcement Report
  17. API Recommended Practice 1162: Public Awareness Programs for Pipeline Operators Finalized
  18. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  19. Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Reporting
  20. Pipeline Safety: Meetings of the Pipeline Safety Advisory Committees [Docket No. RSPA-98-4470]
  21. RCP Services Spotlight – Pipeline Integrity Management

Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Reporting

Each of the Department of Transportation’s drug and alcohol testing rules include requirements for select employers to submit drug and alcohol testing data to five Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies. In the past, these employers have been required to use agency-specific Management Information System (MIS) forms for this purpose, twenty-one different forms in all. The Department recently published a final rule revising these DOT agency MIS forms and transforming them into a single one-page form for use throughout all the DOT agencies. The requirement for use of the form is now in 49 CFR part 40. By this action, the DOT agencies endorse the use of this single form within their regulated industries, provide their regulated employers with guidance for submission of the form, and amend their rules accordingly. The DOT agencies are: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA); Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); Federal Transit Administration (FTA); Federal Railroad Administration (FRA); and Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA).

Editor’s note: RSPA is the agency that regulates pipelines.

This final rule is effective December 31, 2003.