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3. Background Safety. The DOT requires transportation employers to develop and implement drug and alcohol testing programs in the interest of public safety. Safety is the highest priority for DOT. One of the means by which the DOT helps ensure safety is by subjecting those workers responsible for transportation safety to drug and alcohol testing. Workers tested under the DOT program have a direct impact on the safety of the traveling public or the safety of those potentially affected by the transportation of hazardous products, such as natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LING) and hazardous liquids. Test Procedures. The overall responsibility for management and coordination of the DOT program resides within the Office of the Secretary of Transportation's (OST), Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance (ODAPC). ODAPC issues Part 40. Whether the transportation employee is a pipeline worker, truck driver, or airline pilot, their drug and alcohol tests are conducted using the same Part 40 procedures. This consistency benefits all employees affected by DOT regulations in each agency's regulations must adhere to DOT's testing procedures. Better known simply as "Part 40", this rule has become the standard for workplace testing in the United States. Compliance Enforcement. Regulation and enforcement within the different transportation industries is the responsibility of the DOT agency that has authority over the particular industry. The regulatory authority requiring drug and alcohol testing of safety -sensitive employees in aviation, trucking, railroads, and mass transit industries is the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991' (OTETA). The OTETA did not specifically address the pipeline industry. PHMSA has regulatory authority over the pipeline industry and conveyed their authority, for drug and alcohol testing, through the issuance of their regulation - Part 199. Part 199 spells out who is subject to testing, when and in what situations. Operators, and in turn, their associated contractors, implement the regulations. II. GENERAL 1. Scope Operators of pipeline facilities subject to 49 CFR Parts 1926, 193', or 195" are required to test covered employees for the presence of prohibited drugs and alcohol. Contractors doing similar work on the behalf of their operators are subject to the same requirements. Part 199 requires of each operator the assurance that any contractor performing any DOT covered safety -sensitive work for that operator, under Parts 192, 193, or 195, is in full compliance with the provisions of the DOT's drug and alcohol program, as applicable. 2. Applicability Part 199, and the provisions of the Plan, applies to operators and contractors only with respect to their employees located within the territory of the United States, including those employees located within the limits of the "Outer Continental Shelf'. Part 199 and the provisions of the Plan do not apply to covered functions performed on master meter systems or pipeline systems that transport only petroleum gas or petroleum gaslair mixtures. Public La" l U2-143. October 28, 1991, I itic V — Olnnihus Transportation Employee Testing*. 105 Stat. 952-965: 49 U_S.C. 45104(2). Part 192 —Transportation of Natural and Other (ins by Pipeline: Minimum Federal Safety Standards Part 193 — Liquefied Natural QIs hacililics: l-ederal Safety Standards x fart 19- — Transportation of] lazardous Liquids by Pipeline Premium Concrete Services, Inc.- PHMSA DRUG/ALCOHOL PLAN .r1AT!CrJAL CC)MPLIA?ICE OAI IA4�F%%ENT SERVICE, :NI (NC'JSI20I I N211 The INCNIS plan Is the siihinrl of a rr.ciMerrd rmminht anri is nmml .t,d hV rnnwinhl larva in the I3 5 and o.I oihrrr. All nfihlc