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United States Chemical Safety and
Hazard Investigation Board (CSB)
announces that it will hold a public
meeting on February 4, 2010, in Garner,
North Carolina to consider urgent
recommendations to the National Fire
Protection Association (NFPA), the
American Gas Association (AGA) and
the Chair of the NFPA 54/ANSI Z223.1
Committee that result from its
investigation of this incident.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in
the Oak Forrest Ballroom at the
Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, 421 Salisbury
St., Raleigh, North Carolina. The
meeting is free and open to the public.
Pre-registration is not required, but to
assure adequate seating, attendees are
encouraged to pre-register by emailing
their names and affiliations to
ConAgra@CSB.gov. by January 29, 2010.
On June 9, 2009, the ConAgra Slim
Jim production facility in Garner, North
Carolina, experienced a catastrophic
natural gas explosion that caused four
deaths, three critical life-threatening
burn injuries, an amputation, and other
injuries that sent a total of 71 people to
the hospital. The explosion caused
serious structural damage to 100,000
square feet of the packaging area of the
plant, including wall and roof collapse,
which had the potential to cause
additional deaths and serious injuries.
The accident occurred during the
installation and commissioning of a new
gas-fired industrial water heater,
manufactured by Energy Systems
Analysts, Inc. (ESA). On the day of the
accident, an ESA worker was attempting
to purge the new gas piping of air by
opening the supply of gas, prior to the
start-up of the water heater. The purged
gas was piped directly into the room
rather than being vented to the outside.
Some ConAgra employees smelled gas
in the packaging area, others did not.
Personnel who were in and out of the
utility room noticed the gas odor but
most were not seriously concerned and
considered the purging activity to be a
normal part of the start-up process. The
ESA and ConAgra employees were not
aware that as a result of the purging, a
dangerous release of natural gas had
occurred into the building, exceeding
the lower explosive limit (LEL).
The vicinity of the utility room
contained numerous potential ignition
sources, including multiple unclassified
electrical devices. Nonessential
personnel were neither aware of the
water heater start-up nor instructed to
leave the plant during the gas line
purging activity. Over 200 people who
had no role in the installation were in
the building at the time of the
explosion.
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At the meeting, the CSB investigative
team will present its preliminary
findings supporting the need for urgent
recommendations arising from this
incident to the CSB Board and the
public. The Board will then ask
questions of the team. At the end of the
panel discussion, the Board will
consider the urgent recommendations
proposed by the staff. At the end of the
Board’s deliberations, the Board may
decide to proceed to vote to formally
approve the draft urgent
recommendations.
The meeting will be videotaped and
an official transcript will be included in
the investigative file. All staff
presentations are preliminary and are
intended solely to allow the Board to
consider the issues and factors involved
in this case in a public forum. No
factual analyses, conclusions, findings
or recommendations of the staff should
be considered final. Only after the Board
has considered and approved the urgent
recommendations will there be an
approved final record.
Convention Regulations (CWCR) specify
the rights, responsibilities and
obligations for submission of
declarations, reports and inspections.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Annually or on occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
OMB Desk Officer: Jasmeet Seehra,
(202) 395–3123.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dHynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk
Officer, via the Internet at
Jasmeet_K._Seehra@omb.eop.gov or Fax
to (202) 395–5167.
Christopher W. Warner,
General Counsel.
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Dated: January 12, 2010.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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following proposal for collection of
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Agency: Bureau of Industry and
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Title: Chemical Weapons Convention
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OMB Control Number: 0694–0091.
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Number of Respondents: 816.
Average Hours per Response: 30
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
Title: Chemical Weapons Convention Declaration and Report Handbook
and Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0694-0091.
Form Number(s): Form 1-1, Form 1-2, Form 1-2A, Form 1-2B, etc.
Type of Request: Extension without change of a currently approved
collection.
Burden Hours: 16,047.
Number of Respondents: 816.
Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes to 577 hours (depending on
the required documentation).
Needs and Uses: This information is required for the United States
to comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international
arms control treaty. The Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act
of 1998 and Commerce Chemical Weapons Convention Regulations (CWCR)
specify the rights, responsibilities and obligations for submission of
declarations, reports and inspections.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Annually or on occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
OMB Desk Officer: Jasmeet Seehra, (202) 395-3123.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dHynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk Officer, via the Internet at Jasmeet_K._Seehra@omb.eop.gov or Fax to (202) 395-5167.
Dated: January 12, 2010.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-654 Filed 1-14-10; 8:45 am]
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