This notice proposes to amend Part 192 to require more stringent leakage surveys on pipelines located in areas where gas leaks pose a high risk of damage to persons and property. In addition, time intervals between surveys would be prescribed in a way...
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- August 20, 2018
- August 20, 2018
A final rule was published July 10, 179 (44 FR 41197), establishing the essentials for written procedures to be prepared and followed by operators of liquid pipelines for handling pipeline operations, maintenance and, emergencies and for training,...
- August 20, 2018
This notice proposed to amend § 192.627 to ensure that when pressurized gas pipelines are connected, they have their internal gas pressures positively ascertained by pressure gages prior to the final step of allowing gas to flow between them. This...
- August 20, 2018
This Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking invites comments relative to the need to establish regulations which would require gas pipeline operators to have adequate maps and records of their pipeline systems. These maps and records appear necessary...
- August 20, 2018
Excavation is the number one cause of damage to gas pipelines. To reduce the risk of excavation damage, new § 192.614 would require each operator of a gas pipeline in certain populated areas to establish and carry out a damage prevention plan. If...
- August 20, 2018
This notice extends the effective date for the requirements being established under Amendment 192-34; 44 FR No. 142, page 42968, to July 1, 1980.
- August 20, 2018
This notice is intended to resolve conflicting information received as the result of Notice 1, Docket No. PS-53, that proposed to require the installation of remotely controlled valves at 7.5 mile intervals on pipelines transportating highly volatile...
- August 20, 2018
This notice proposes to amend the pipeline design regulations in Part 192 and Part 195 by increasing to 900 F the temperature limit to which cold expanded steel pipe maybe heated (other than by welding) without a 25 percent reduction in design...
- August 20, 2018
This notice extends the comment period to September 30,1979, for comments to be submitted on certain issues regarding the final rule on joining of plastic pipe as published in the Federal Register, Volume 44, No. 142, page 42968, on July 23,1979.
- August 20, 2018
This amendment establishes tests for qualifying procedures and personnel to make all types of joints In plastic pipelines used in the transportation of natural and other gas, including heat fusion, solvent cement, adhesive, and mechanical joints....