PHMSA Proposes Amendments to Gas Pipeline Safety RegulationsOn March 17, 2016, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released an advance copy of the long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would extensively modify the federal pipeline safety regulations applicable to gas transmission and gathering pipelines. The NPRM reflects PHMSA’s response to congressional directives in the 2011 Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act (2011 Act), and recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Government Accountability Office. In addition, PHMSA is expected to release additional documents, including a regulatory impact statement that will address the proposal’s costs and benefits, and an environmental analysis. Comments will be due 60 days after the NPRM is published in the Federal Register, although requests to extend that deadline are expected to be filed. The NPRM is lengthy and detailed. The summary below provides a topical overview of the following key proposed changes: Records Verification, Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure (MAOP), Test Requirements, Non-Integrity Management (IM) Pipeline Assessments and Remediation Schedules, IM, Corrosion Control, Gathering Pipelines, Management of Change, Continuing Surveillance, and New and Revised Definitions. Records Verification (proposed revised 49 C.F.R. §§ 192.5 & 192.13(e) and new §§ 192.67, 192.127, 192.205, 192.607)Material Documentation… Read full this story
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