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Pipeline Safety: Integrity Management Program for Gas Distribution Pipelines

Final rule; extension of comment period.

PHMSA is extending for 30 days, until February 4, 2010, the period for filing comments to the requirement adopted in the final rule, "Pipeline Safety: Integrity Management Program for Gas Distribution Pipelines" to require the reporting of failures of compression couplings used in metal pipe. PHMSA had invited public comment on the extension of this requirement to include reporting of failure of compression couplings used in metal pipe until January 4, 2010. The American Gas Association (AGA) requested that PHMSA extend the comment period for thirty days.

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