Action
Notice of intent to approve project modification and environmental assessment of modification.
Summary
The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) is conducting a Risk Management Demonstration Program with pipeline operators to determine how risk management might be used to complement and improve the existing Federal pipeline safety regulatory process. In December, 1998, OPS approved Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) \1\ as a participant in the Pipeline Risk Management Demonstration Program. Since its demonstration project was approved, NGPL has identified five segments in its system where it proposes to perform alternative risk control activities in lieu of compliance with the regulations addressing class location changes. This Notice announces OPS's intent to modify NGPL's Demonstration Project order to allow the proposed risk control alternatives (the "Alternatives"). This Notice also provides an environmental assessment of NGPL's Alternatives. Based on this environmental assessment, OPS has preliminarily concluded that this proposed project modification will not have significant environmental impacts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------