Pipeline Safety: Meeting of the Gas Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee
| Published date | 08 September 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 55575 |
| Record Number | 2020-19801 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration |
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confirmation that PHMSA has received
your comments, please include a self-
addressed stamped postcard. Internet
users may submit comments at http://
www.Regulations.gov.
Note: There is a privacy statement
published on http://www.Regulations.gov.
Comments, including any personal
information provided, are posted without
changes or edits to http://
www.Regulations.gov.
Confidential Business Information:
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
is commercial or financial information
that is both customarily and actually
treated as private by its owner. Under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
(5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from
public disclosure. If your comments
responsive to this notice contain
commercial or financial information
that is customarily treated as private,
that you actually treat as private, and
that is relevant or responsive to this
notice, it is important that you clearly
designate the submitted comments as
CBI. Pursuant to 49 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) 190.343, you may ask
PHMSA to give confidential treatment
to information you give to the agency by
taking the following steps: (1) Mark each
page of the original document
submission containing CBI as
‘‘Confidential’’; (2) send PHMSA, along
with the original document, a second
copy of the original document with the
CBI deleted; and (3) explain why the
information you are submitting is CBI.
Unless you are notified otherwise,
PHMSA will treat such marked
submissions as confidential under the
FOIA, and they will not be placed in the
public docket of this notice.
Submissions containing CBI should be
sent to: Kay McIver, DOT, PHMSA–
PHP–80, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001. Any
commentary PHMSA receives that is not
specifically designated as CBI will be
placed in the public docket for this
matter.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
General: Ms. Kay McIver by telephone
at 202–366–0113, or by email at
kay.mciver@dot.gov.
Technical: Mr. Steve Nanney by
telephone at 713–272–2855, or by email
at steve.nanney@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: PHMSA
received a special permit request from
TCO seeking a waiver from the
requirements of 49 CFR 192.611: Change
in class location: Confirmation or
revision of maximum allowable
operating pressure, and § 192.619:
Maximum allowable operating pressure:
Steel or plastic pipelines. This special
permit is being requested in lieu of pipe
replacement or pressure reduction for
four (4) special permit segments totaling
2.046 miles of the 30-inch diameter TCO
Montgomery County (MC) Pipeline. The
proposed special permit segments are
located in Montgomery County,
Maryland. The pipeline class locations
in the special permit segments have
changed from a Class 1 to Class 3
location. The TCO MC Pipeline special
permit segments are not contiguous and
are comprised of 30-inch diameter pipe
with existing maximum allowable
operating pressures of 898 pounds per
square inch gauge (psig). The
installation of the special permit
segments occurred in 1962.
The special permit request, proposed
special permit with conditions, and
Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA)
for the TCO MC Pipeline are available
for review and public comment in
Docket No. PHMSA–2019–0202. We
invite interested persons to review and
submit comments on the special permit
request, proposed special permit with
conditions, and DEA in the docket.
Please include any comments on
potential safety and environmental
impacts that may result if the special
permit is granted. Comments may
include relevant data.
Before issuing a decision on the
special permit request, PHMSA will
evaluate all comments received on or
before the comment closing date.
Comments received after the closing
date will be evaluated, if it is possible
to do so without incurring additional
expense or delay. PHMSA will consider
each relevant comment it receives in
making its decision to grant or deny this
special permit request.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2020–19794 Filed 9–4–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–60–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2016–0136]
Pipeline Safety: Meeting of the Gas
Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee
AGENCY
: Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA); DOT.
ACTION
: Notice of advisory committee
meeting.
SUMMARY
: This notice announces a
virtual public meeting of the Technical
Pipeline Safety Standards Committee,
also known as the Gas Pipeline
Advisory Committee (GPAC), to discuss
the Gas Pipeline Regulatory Reform
notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
DATES
: PHMSA will hold a virtual
public meeting on October 7, 2020.
GPAC will meet from 10:30 a.m. to 6:00
p.m. ET on Wednesday, October 7,
2020. Members of the public who want
to attend are asked to register no later
than September 30, 2020. PHMSA
requests that individuals who require
disability accommodations notify
Tewabe Asebe by September 30, 2020.
ADDRESSES
: The meeting will be held
virtually. The agenda and any
additional information, including
information on how to participate in the
meeting, will be published on the
meeting website at https://
primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/
MtgHome.mtg?mtg=151. Presentations
will be available on the meeting website
and on the E-Gov website, https://
www.regulations.gov/, under docket
number PHMSA–2016–0136 no later
than 30 days following the meetings.
You may submit comments, identified
by Docket No. PHMSA–2016–0136, by
any of the following methods:
•E-Gov Web: https://
www.regulations.gov. This site allows
the public to enter comments on any
Federal Register notice issued by any
agency. Follow the online instructions
for submitting comments.
•Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building:
Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590–0001.
•Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building: Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590–0001,
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET
Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays.
•Instructions: Identify Docket No.
PHMSA–2016–0136 at the beginning of
your comments. If you submit your
comments by mail, submit two copies.
Internet users may submit comments at
https://www.regulations.gov. If you
would like confirmation that PHMSA
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed stamped postcard that
is labeled ‘‘Comments on PHMSA–
2016–0136.’’ The docket clerk will date
stamp the postcard prior to returning it
to you via the U.S. mail.
•Note: All comments received will
be posted without edits to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading for more
information. Anyone can use the site to
search all comments by the name of the
submitting individual or, if the
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comment was submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.,
the name of the signing individual.
Therefore, please review the complete
U.S. Department of Transportation
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register (65 FR 19477) or the Privacy
Notice at https://www.regulations.gov
before submitting comments.
•Privacy Act Statement: In
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT
solicits comments from the public to
better inform its rulemaking process.
The DOT posts these comments without
edit, including any personal information
the commenter provides, to https://
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
https://www.dot.gov/privacy.
•Confidential Business Information:
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
is commercial or financial information
that is both customarily and actually
treated as private by its owner. Under
the Freedom of Information Act (5
U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from public
disclosure. If your comments in
response to this notice contain
commercial or financial information
that is customarily treated as private,
that you actually treat as private, and
that is relevant or responsive to this
notice, it is important that you clearly
designate the submitted comments as
CBI. Pursuant to 49 CFR 190.343, you
may ask PHMSA to provide confidential
treatment to information you give to the
agency by taking the following steps: (1)
Mark each page of the original
document submission containing CBI as
‘‘Confidential;’’ (2) send PHMSA a copy
of the original document with the CBI
deleted along with the original,
unaltered document; and (3) explain
why the information you are submitting
is CBI. Unless you are notified
otherwise, PHMSA will treat such
marked submissions as confidential
under the Freedom of Information Act
and they will not be placed in the
public docket of this notice.
Submissions containing CBI should be
sent to Tewabe Asebe, DOT, PHMSA,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, PHP–30,
Washington, DC 20590–0001. Any
commentary PHMSA receives that is not
specifically designated as CBI will be
placed in the public docket.
•Docket: For access to the docket or
to read background documents or
comments, go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
Alternatively, this information is
available by visiting the DOT at 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building:
Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590–0001, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00
p.m. ET Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Tewabe Asebe, Transportation
Specialist, Office of Pipeline Safety, by
phone at 202–366–5523 or by email at
tewabe.asebe@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Meeting Agenda
GPAC will meet to discuss the Gas
Pipeline Regulatory Reform NPRM that
PHMSA published in the Federal
Register on June 9, 2020; (85 FR 35240).
GPAC will review the NPRM and its
associated regulatory analysis. PHMSA
will post additional details on the
meeting website in advance of the
meeting.
In the NPRM, PHMSA proposes
revisions to the federal pipeline safety
regulations to ease regulatory burdens
on the construction, maintenance, and
operation of gas transmission,
distribution, and gathering pipeline
systems. The proposed amendments
include petitions for rulemaking,
regulatory relief actions identified by
internal agency review, and public
comments submitted in response to two
DOT infrastructure and regulatory
reform notices: Transportation
Infrastructure: Notice of Review of
Policy, Guidance, and Regulation (82 FR
26734; June 8, 2017) and Notification of
Regulatory Review (82 FR 45750;
October 2, 2017). The NPRM proposes
to provide flexibility in the inspection
requirements for farm taps, allow
remote monitoring for rectifier stations,
adjust the monetary damage threshold
for reporting incidents for inflation,
revise the inspection interval for
monitoring atmospheric corrosion on
gas distribution service pipelines, and
repeal distribution integrity
management program requirements for
master meter operators and submission
requirements for mechanical fitting
failure reports. The NPRM also proposes
to update the design standard for
polyethylene pipe, raise the maximum
diameter limit for polyethylene pipe,
revise test requirements for pressure
vessels, update welder requalification
requirements to provide scheduling
flexibility, and extend the allowance for
pretested short segments of pipe and
fabricated units to pipelines operating at
a hoop stress of less than 30 percent of
the specified minimum yield strength
and more than 100 pounds per square
inch.
II. Background
GPAC is a statutorily mandated
advisory committee that provides
PHMSA and the Secretary of
Transportation with recommendations
on proposed standards for the
transportation of natural gas or
hazardous liquids by pipeline. GPAC
was established in accordance with 49
U.S.C. 60115 and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C.
App. 2), to review PHMSA’s regulatory
initiatives and determine their technical
feasibility, reasonableness, cost-
effectiveness, and practicability. GPAC
consists of 15 members, with
membership evenly divided among
federal and state governments, regulated
industry, and the general public.
III. Public Participation
The meeting will be open to the
public. Members of the public who wish
to attend must register on the meeting
website and include their names and
affiliations. PHMSA will provide
members of the public with
opportunities to make a statement
during the course of these meetings.
Additionally, PHMSA will record the
meetings and post a record to the public
docket. PHMSA is committed to
providing all participants with equal
access to these meetings. If you need
disability accommodations, please
contact Tewabe Asebe by phone at 202–
366–5523 or by email at tewabe.asebe@
dot.gov.
PHMSA is not always able to publish
a notice in the Federal Register quickly
enough to provide timely notice
regarding last minute issues that impact
a previously announced advisory
committee meeting. Therefore,
individuals should check the meeting
website or contact Tewabe Asebe
regarding any possible changes.
Issued in Washington, DC, on September 1,
2020, under authority delegated in 49 CFR
1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2020–19801 Filed 9–4–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–60–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2019–0237]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special
Permit; Great Lakes Gas Transmission
Company
AGENCY
: Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA); DOT.
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: PHMSA is publishing this
notice to solicit public comments on a
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