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Pipeline Safety: Harmonize Class Location Change Pressure Test Requirements With Subpart J Pressure Test Requirements

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).

PHMSA is proposing to revise the regulation for confirming or revising the maximum allowable operating pressure following a class location change to clarify that owners and operators of gas pipeline facilities can use to satisfy that requirement certain pressure tests authorized by subpart J of part 192 for small segments of pipe.

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