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The purpose of these amendments to the Hazardous Materials 11 Regulations (HMR) and the Pipeline Safety.Regulations (PSR) is to delete all I references to the Materials s Transportation Bureau (MTB), including the pertinent offices and personnel filling those...
This notice extends the comment period to January 3, 1986, for comments to be submitted on Docket No. PS-84; Notice 1, an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM)'on the confirmation or revision of maximum allowable operating pressure for gas pipelines. This ANPRM was published in the...
RSPA proposes to update the existing incorporation by reference of the American Petroleum Institute (API) specifications for line pipe, API 5L, 5LS, and 5LX, by adopting the 1985 edition of API Specification 5L for gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. API 5L, 5LS, and 5LX have been consolidated...
The Federal hazardous liquid pipeline safety standards do not apply to gathering lines in rural areas. The lack of specificity in this exception became apparent when these standards were proposed to be extended to intrastate pipelines, which include a large number of rural gathering lines. This...
RSPA proposes to amend Parts 192 and 195 by generally conforming requirements for welding procedure qualification and for welder qualification. Identical performance standards are proposed for qualification of welding procedures under both regulations, except for retained provisions for low...
This notice proposes to delete the rule that requires gas pipeline operators to respond to notices of intended excavation in areas that do not contain buried gas pipelines. The current rule is unduly burdensome and counterproductive in connection with many existing damage prevention programs....
This Notice withdraws a proposal to provide alternate methods of compliance with the requirements for monitoring cathodic protection systems where pipelines are located beneath paving or in areas of stray currents. Comments to the ANPRM indicated that, with few exceptions, the required...
The Federal hazardous liquid pipeline safety standards do not apply to gathering lines in rural areas. The lack of specificity in this exception makes it difficult to apply the standards to intrastate pipeline, which include a large number of rural gathering lines. This final rule adopts new...