Description of document: U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) “RSPA RESULTS...” Newsletters, 2002-2004 and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) “PHMSA FOCUS” Newsletters, 2005-2006, 2008-2010 Requested date: 27-March-2016 Released date: 31-March-2016 Posted date: 04-July-2016 Source of document: U.S. Department of Transportation PHMSA FOIA Officer, PHC-30 Office of Chief Counsel East Building, 2nd Floor, E26-105 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 Fax 202-366-7041 Email: [email protected] The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. 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U.S. Department 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. of Transportation Washington, D.C. 20590 Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration 3/31/2016 FOIA Control No: 2016-0084 Transmitted via Electronic Mail This letter acknowledges receipt of and responds to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request sent on 3/27/2016 and received in the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA's) FOIA Office on 3/28/2016. You sought "an electric/digital copy of each PHMSA FOCUS Newsletter. " In response to your request, please find attached 196 pages we are releasing to you in full. Because the fee for processing your request falls below the minimum amount the Department of Transportation charges for processing FOIA requests, we processed your request at no charge to you. See Department of Transportation FOIA Regulations, 49 C.F.R. § 7.43(a)(l). This concludes our response to your request. If you have any questions regarding your request, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Sincerely, Dig itally sig ned by Ma deline Va n Nos tr and ON: cn=Made li ne Van No strand, o, ou=PHMSA, Madeline Van Nostrand email:::::madeli ne.vannostrand@do t.gov, c:::US Da te 20 16.03.31 1700:23 -04'00' FOIA Officer Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Attachment: 2016-0084 Response Package 2016.03.31.pdf U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Volume 3, Number 4 Winter 2010 U.S. Senate Confirms Quarterman as Third PHMSA Administrator Quarterman was most recently a part- ner in the Washington, DC, office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where she was a member of their Regulatory & Indus- try Affairs Department. Quarterman’s practice was focused on litigation and administrative law associated with pipe- line safety, royalty valuation, federal land minerals management, pipeline acquisi- tions, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil, gas, and liquefied natural gas facilities, the jurisdictional status of pipeline assets, as well as surface transportation, and al- ternative energy. She also was involved in challenges to the royalty valuation of Alaska North Slope oil, cases at the PHMSA Administrator Cynthia Quarterman receives her presidential appointment certificate from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (right) and Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (center), as her husband, Pantelis Michalopoulos (left), and daughter, Charis, look on. and the Surface Transportation Board, and multiparty hazardous waste clean-up Cynthia L. Quarterman was sworn in Safety Administration (PHMSA). Nomi- litigation. Nov. 16, 2009, by Transportation Secretary nated by President Barack H. Obama on Quarterman was a member of the Ray LaHood as the third Administrator Sept. 15, 2009, Quarterman was confirmed Obama Administration Transition Team of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials by the United States Senate on Nov. 5. at the U.S. Department of Energy. Earlier in her career, she was a former director of PHMSA Third Annual Award Ceremony Held the Minerals Management Service in the U.S. Department of the Interior March “As your new Administrator, I am looking forward to working with our strong team of dedicated 1995–August 1999. In that capacity, she career employees who expertly fulfill PHMSA’s mission to protect people and the environment from administered the programs to manage the the risks inherent in hazardous materials and pipeline transportation.” mineral resources located on the nation’s Cynthia Quarterman OCS, including leasing, exploration, de- PHMSA Administrator velopment, and production of oil, natural gas, sulfur, and other minerals, and to collect and distribute revenues for oil, gas, coal, geothermal, and mineral develop- ment on federal and Indian lands. Quarterman serves as the agency’s chief executive officer and advises the Secretary of Transportation on all matters falling within PHMSA’s jurisdiction. She directs the agency’s national program for protect- ing people and the environment from the risks inherent in hazardous materials and PHMSA Executive Assistant Maria Howard (2nd from left) receives her Peer Award and is congratulated pipeline transportation. (left to right) by Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, PHMSA Administrator Cynthia Quarterman and PHMSA Assistant Director, International Standards Ryan Paquet. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Winter 2010 Page 2 From the Desk of the Administrator has been my recent appointment as the hazardous materials and energy in manu- new PHMSA administrator. facturing, agriculture and other endeav- A major effort during my tenure will be ors will see an upswing. To sustain that to ensure that any changes to, and within, growth and maintain our quality of life, PHMSA’s two program offices are fo- the PHMSA team will not lose sight of cused to improve upon the Department’s our jobs to ensure the safe, secure, reliable overall public transportation safety mis- and efficient transportation of over 3,000 sion. Together, as civil servants, we at regulated hazardous materials. PHMSA hold the public trust to protect Yet, we do not operate in a vacuum. human life and the environment from The regulated community cannot achieve accidents and incidents that may occur full safety compliance without the buy-in during the commercial transport of and leadership of the hazmat and pipeline energy and hazardous materials across stakeholders both in this country and this great nation. The loss of even one overseas working together on common life due to laxness or inattention on our goals. Strong partnerships will be main- Cynthia L. Quarterman presided over the Third part as regulators and enforcers of the tained and others opened with Federal, Annual PHMSA Awards. established hazardous materials and state and local agencies, industry and first Change is good as long as it has pur- pipeline regulations will have been one responder communities. I look forward pose. As an operating administration of life too many. to being a conduit of information, grants DOT, PHMSA has seen its fair share of As our economy continues to pull out and ideas for those willing to contribute change in 2009. Not the least of which of the global recession, the demand for to our safety mission. PHMSA Hazmat Leadership Change Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari announced Oct. 1 that Dr. Magdy El-Sibaie as the Acting Associate Admin- istrator for Hazardous Materials Safety in the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safe- ty Administra- tion (PHMSA). The 120-day t e m p o r a r y posting expired on January 28, 2010. Dr. El- Sibaie came to Dr. Magdy El-Sibaie PHMSA from Ryan Posten (left) participates in hazmat field enforcement effort at Baltimore Harbor. his prior position as Director of the Of- fice of Research and Development at Dr. El-Sibaie’s exceptional leadership will tor for Hazardous Materials Safety. the Federal Railroad Administration and be missed at PHMSA. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood returned to that agency at the end of his Also in October, Ryan Posten moved regards transportation safety as the detail. No selection has been made to per- from his position as Director of the Of- Department’s primary mission, and these manently fill the Associate Administrator fice of Hazardous Materials Enforcement personnel moves make sure that PHMSA for Hazardous Materials Safety position. to be the Assistant Associate Administra- regards safety as its primary mission. Focus Winter 2010 Final.indd 2 2/1/2010 3:56:30 PM Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Winter 2010 Page 3 2009 DOT Secretary Awards - PHMSA Awardees “I wish to extend my deepest gratitude and congratulations to everyone at the U.S. Department of Transportation for making 2009 a banner year for the Department. Never before