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Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas and Liquids by Pipeline; Pipeline Occupational Safety and Health Standards
This document withdraws an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in which the Materials Transportation Bureau (MTB) requested advice, recommendations, and information relating to the issuance of additional occupational safety and health standards for the protection of employees engaged in the...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Liquids by Pipeline; Procedures for Operations, Maintenance, and Emergencies
This final rule establishes precise and comprehensive requirements for written procedures to be prepared and followed by operators of hazardous liquid pipelines for conducting pipeline operations and maintenance, and for handling emergencies.
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Joining of Plastic Pipe
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. These new requirements are intended to minimize...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Joining of Plastic Pipe
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.
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Gas or Liquid by Pipeline; Temperature Limits on Cold Expanded Steel Pipe
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 pressure as normally calculated under § 192105 for...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Liquids by Pipelines; Valve Spacing on Pipelines Carrying Highly Volatile liquids
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 liquids (HVL). This nQtice proposes...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Joining of Plastic Pipe
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.
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Damage Prevention Program
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 adopted as a final rule, this proposal would...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Maps and Records
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 to show or describe the operators' gas...