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Pat Dillon President

Craig Wright Executive Vice President

Mark Bridgewater part time Vice President

Mike Nelson Part Time Vice President

Robin McGregor Trustee

Michigan Enforcement Program

Pipeline Regulations

Operator compliance with State and Federal pipeline safety regulations is monitored through a comprehensive inspection and enforcement program. The program is comprised of field inspections of operations, maintenance, and construction activities; programmatic inspections of operator procedures, processes, and records; incident investigations and corrective actions; and through direct dialogue with operator management. The agency or agencies below work in partnership with the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to assure pipeline operators are meeting requirements for safe, reliable, and environmentally sound operation of their facilities. The tables below provide a summary of probable violations discovered and compliance actions taken by the agency(ies) as a result of these activities. These data are reported annually as part of the State's annual pipeline safety program certification or agreement to PHMSA. Information on enforcement actions taken by PHMSA is available at the Pipeline Safety Enforcement Program homepage.

• Probable Violations
• Compliance Actions

These tables provide a summary of probable violations identified and corrected during each year. Probable violations are alleged non-compliances with any State or Federal pipeline safety regulations. Although State enforcement procedures vary, operators are provided an opportunity to respond to these alleged non-compliances and defend their actions as part of resolving each case. Separate tables are provided for hazardous liquid and natural gas pipeline oversight. (A)

Natural Gas: Probable Violations: 2002-2010 (1)
Year	Number Found During Year	Number Submitted to DOT for Action	Number Corrected During Year
MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
2001	30	0	27
2002	18	0	18
2003	18	0	31
2004	14	0	11
2005	12	0	11
2006	11	0	14
2007	7	0	7
2008	13	0	3
2009	13	0	11
2010	31	0	7

Export Table

Number Found During Year: The number of new probable violations identified during the calendar year through inspections, investigations, and other means.

Number Submitted for DOT Action: The number of probable violations that are referred to PHMSA for Federal enforcement. Compliance actions may be referred to PHMSA in situations where the State pipeline safety program is not certified to take enforcement action on certain intrastate pipelines. For example, some States do not have enforcement authority of municipal pipeline systems. Furthermore, some State pipeline safety programs are authorized by PHMSA to inspect interstate pipelines on PHMSA's behalf as Interstate Agents. In these situations, any probable violations identified by Interstate Agents must be referred to PHMSA for enforcement.

Number Corrected During Year: The number of probable violations that were satisfactorily corrected during the calendar year. These could be violations identified in the current year as well as violations that were carried over from previous years. Violations are satisfactorily resolved when the operator provides evidence and satisfies the agency that the non-compliances have been properly addressed and corrected.

New Medical Certification Requirements
A Guide for Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Holders
General Information

Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security
December 2011

What is changing? The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) will be adding your medical certification status and the information on your medical examiner’s certificate to your Commercial driver’s license system (CDLIS) record.

When does this change start? This change starts on January 30, 2012.

What is not changing? The driver physical qualification requirements are not changing.

What are CDL holders required to do?

1. You must determine what type of commerce you operate in. You must certify to TDOSHS to one of the four types of commerce you operate in as listed below,
   
   
   • Interstate non-excepted: You are an Interstate non-excepted driver and must meet the Federal DOT medical card requirements (e.g. – you are “not excepted”).
   • Interstate excepted: You are an Interstate excepted driver and do not have to meet the Federal DOT medical card requirements.
   • Intrastate non-excepted: You are an Intrastate non-excepted driver and are required to meet the medical requirements for Tennessee.
   • Intrastate excepted: You are an Intrastate excepted driver and do not have to meet the medical requirements for Tennessee.
2. If you are subject to the DOT medical card requirements, provide a copy of each new DOT medical card to TDOSHS prior to the expiration of the current DOT medical card.

For more detailed information read the following:

Starting January 30, 2012 and no later than January 30, 2014, all CDL holders must provide information to TDOSHS regarding the type of commercial motor vehicle operation they drive in or expect to drive in with their CDL. Drivers operating in certain types of commerce will be required to submit a current medical examiner’s certificate to TDOSHS to obtain a “certified” medical status as part of their driving record. CDL holders required to have a ”certified” medical status who fail to provide and keep up-to-date their medical examiner’s certificate with TDOSHS will become ”not-certified” and they may lose their CDL.

New Medical Certification Requirements Frequently Asked Questions

Operators of larger and more complex vehicles will need to apply for a Commercial Driver License (CDL). These licenses include Class A, B, and C depending upon the Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR), Gross Combination Weight Rating (GCWR), and what is being transported. In general, state law defines a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) as any vehicle or combination of vehicles weighing more than 26,000 pounds. If hazardous materials are transported, or if the vehicle is designed to transport more than fifteen (15) passengers including the driver, or if the vehicle is used as a school bus, a CDL would also be required, regardless of the weight of the vehicle. Drivers who need a CDL should obtain the Commercial Driver License Manual which contains detailed information necessary to prepare for the tests. These manuals are available at all driver license stations.

The Temporary Driver License is not available to cover any type of commercial motor vehicle. An applicant for a CDL must be able to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident status in order to qualify for issuance of a Tennessee CDL.

See the Commercial Motor Vehicles Guide for more information.

NOTE: If a person holds a valid commercial driver license (Class A, B, or C license), this license is also valid for operating a Class D vehicle. No separate Class D license is required.

Commercial licenses include Class A, B, and C depending upon the Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR), Gross Combination Weight Rating (GCWR), and what is being transported.

Some drivers may require an A/57 license. This license applies to drivers who do not require a class A license, but who haul an excess of 10,001 pounds or more. Examples are: F450 pick-up truck hauling a 10,001 or more pound trailer, an electric department truck hauling a 10,000 pound forklift on a flatbed trailer, etc.

View the Endorsement Table in PDF format.

Please bring the following documents with you when applying for a CDL license.

1. Valid DOT Medical Card
   • PLEASE NOTE: Employees of a government entity must have a current, valid D.O.T. medical card if making application for a CDL with a HazMat (H), Passenger (P) or School Bus (S) endorsement.
2. Proof of your Social Security Number/Proof of U.S. Citizenship
3. Tennessee driver’s license or ID, or a valid driver license or CDL from another state.
4. Proof of Domicile in Tennessee.
   • Applicants for a CDL or permit will be required to present two proofs of domicile.

+ What proof of U.S. citizenship documents are authorized?

+ What do I need to bring for domicile?

+ Proof of Relationship

To obtain your permit, you must take and pass the CDL general knowledge test. Full-Service Driver Service Centers throughout the state** offer the CDL general knowledge test and the knowledge tests for any endorsement needed.

Practice tests are available online: CDL Practice Tests

No. The Temporary Driver License is not available to cover any type of commercial motor vehicle.

Per federal regulation §383.93, paragraph C:

The following tests are required for endorsements:

(c)(1) Double/Triple Trailers - a knowledge test;

(c)(2) Passenger - knowledge and a skills test;

(c)(3) Tank vehicle - a knowledge test;

(c)(4) Hazardous Materials - a knowledge test; and

(c)(5) School bus - knowledge and a skills test.

The Commercial Driver License Manual is available online to download or is available for pick up at Driver Services Centers statewide.

New Tennessee Law - Effective 1/1/2011

Effective January 1, 2011, the State reporting requirement for commercial vehicle convictions was changed from 10 days to 5 days (Tenn. Code Ann. §55-50-409).

For more information and the new reporting requirements, visit our CDL Citations page.

New Medical Certification Requirements
A Guide for Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Holders
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security
December 2011

Downloadable Affidavit

The following FAQs will help you in determining how to meet the new Federal medical certification requirements:

Q. What must I do to comply with the new requirements for making my medical certification part of my CDL driving record?

A. Starting on January 30, 2012, when you:

• Apply for a CDL;
• Renew a CDL;
• Apply for a higher class of CDL;
• Apply for a new endorsement on a CDL; or
• Transfer a CDL from another State

You will be required to self certify to a single type of commercial operation on your driver license application form. Based on that self certification, you may need to provide the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) with a current medical examiner’s certificate and show any variance you may have to obtain or keep your CDL.

Q. How do I determine which type of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operation I should self-certify to TDOSHS?

A. For the purpose of complying with the new requirements for medical certification, it is important to know how you are using the CMV. To help you decide, follow these steps:

Step 1: Do you, or will you, use a CDL to operate a CMV in interstate or intrastate commerce?

Interstate commerce is when you drive a CMV:

• From one State to another State or a foreign country;
• Between two places within a State, but during part of the trip, the CMV crosses into another State or foreign country; or
• Between two places within a State, but the cargo is part of a trip that began or will end in another State or foreign country.

Intrastate commerce is when you drive a CMV within a State and you do not meet any of the descriptions above for interstate commerce.

If you operate in both intrastate commerce and interstate commerce, you must choose interstate commerce.

Step 2: Once you decide you operate or will operate in interstate commerce or intrastate commerce, you must decide whether you operate (or expect to operate) in a non-excepted or excepted status. This decision will tell you to which of the four types of commerce you must self-certify.

Interstate Commerce:

You operate in excepted interstate commerce when you drive a CMV in interstate commerce only for the following excepted activities:

• As Federal, State or local government employees (In TN government employees who need the hazardous materials, passenger, or school bus endorsement are not considered exempt);
• To transport human corpses or sick or injured persons;
• Fire truck or rescue vehicle drivers during emergencies and other related activities;
• Primarily in the transportation of propane winter heating fuel when responding to an emergency condition requiring immediate response such as damage to a propane gas system after a storm or flooding;
• In Response to a pipeline emergency condition requiring immediate response such as a pipeline leak or rupture;
• In custom harvesting on a farm or to transport farm machinery and supplies used in the custom harvesting operation to and from a farm or to transport custom harvested crops to storage or market;
• Beekeeper in the seasonal transportation of bees;
• Controlled and operated by a farmer, but is not a combination vehicle (power unit and towed unit), and is used to transport agricultural products, farm machinery or farm supplies (no placardable hazardous materials) to and from a farm and within 150 air-miles of the farm;
• To transport migrant workers.

If you answered yes to one or more of the above activities as the only operation in which you drive, you operate in excepted interstate commerce and do not need a Federal medical examiner’s certificate.

If you answered no to all of the above activities, you operate in non-excepted interstate commerce and are required to provide a current medical examiner’s certificate (49 CFR 391.45),commonly referred to as a medical certificate or DOT card, to TDOSHS. Most CDL holders who drive CMVs in interstate commerce are non-excepted interstate commerce drivers.

If you operate in both excepted interstate commerce and non-excepted interstate commerce, you must choose non-excepted interstate commerce to be qualified to operate in both types of interstate commerce.

Intrastate Commerce:

You operate in excepted Intrastate commerce when you drivea CMV only in intrastate commerce activities for which your State of licensure has determined do not require you to meet the State’s medical certification requirements.

You operate in non-excepted intrastate commerce when you drive a CMV only in intrastate commerce and are required to meet your State of licensure’s medical certification requirements.

If you operate in both excepted intrastate commerce and non-excepted intrastate commerce, you must choose non-excepted intrastate commerce.

Step 3:: Provide TDOSHS with your self-certification of your operating status. If you self-certify to non-excepted interstate on or after January 30, 2012, you must provide TDOSHS with either the original or copy of your current medical examiner’s certificate as required by TDOSHS.

If your medical examiner’s certificate is only valid with a vision, diabetes or a skills performance evaluation variance granted by FMCSA, you may also be asked by TDOSHS to provide a copy of that variance document.

Q. What if I am an existing CDL holder who does not have a license renewal, upgrade or transfer between January 30, 2012 and January 30, 2014?

A. You are responsible for following the three steps above and providing TDOSHS with your self-certification of operating status by January 30, 2014. If required, you must also provide your current medical examiner’s certificate and any variance document by January 30, 2014. TDOSHS will tell you how you can provide this information.

Q. After I provide TDOSHS with my unexpired medical examiner’s certificate, do I still have to carry an original or copy of my medical examiner’s certificate?

A. Yes. Until the program is fully implemented on January 30, 2014, you will still have to carry an original or copy of the medical examiner’s certificate and provide a copy to your employer for your driver qualification file.

Q. What should I do with the medical examiner’s certificate beginning on January 30, 2014?

After you provide TDOSHS and your employer with the medical examiner’s certificate, the medical examiner’s certificate will only be valid for the first 15 days after it was issued. Your medical examiner’s certificate will be recorded on your driving record and will become the valid version of your medical certification.

Q. What if I do not provide TDOSHS with my self-certification and if required, my medical examiner’s certificate and any required variance document by January 30, 2014?

A. TDOSHS will notify you that you are no longer medically certified to operate a CMV in non-excepted Interstate commerce. The TDOSHS will then remove all your CDL privileges from your license.

Q. What should I do when my medical certificate and/or variance is about to expire?

A. You must have a new medical examination and obtain a new medical certificate. You must then provide TDOSHS the new medical examiner’s certificate. You are also responsible for applying to FMCSA for a renewal of your variance.

Q. What happens if my medical examiner’s certificate or variance expires before I provide TDOSHS with a new one?

A. TDOSHS will notify you that you are no longer medically certified to operate a CMV in non-excepted Interstate commerce. TDOSHS will then remove all your CDL privileges from your license.

Q. How can I get back my CDL privileges?

A. If the medical examiner’s certificate has expired, you must obtain a new one and provide it to TDOSHS. If the variance has expired, you must renew it with FMCSA. Your State may require retesting and additional fees to get back your CDL privileges. If allowed by TDOSHS, you may also change your self-certification to an operating category that does not require a medical certificate.