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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

Notice of Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random Drug Testing

Each year, pipeline operators randomly select employees to test for prohibited drugs. The number of employees selected may not be less than the minimum annual percentage rate the Research and Special Programs Administration’s (RSPA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) determines, which is either 50 percent or 25 percent of covered employees based on the industry’s positive rate of random tests. In accordance with applicable standards, RSPA/OPS has determined that the positive rate of random drug tests reported by operators this year for testing done in calendar year 2002 is less than 1.0 percent. Therefore, in calendar year 2004, the minimum annual percentage rate for random drug testing is 25 percent of covered employees.