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Archived Rulemaking: Gas Pipeline Damage Prevention Programs
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....
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Monitoring of External Corrosion Control
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...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Hazardous Liquids; Gathering Lines In Rural Areas
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...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Gas or Hazardous Liquid by Pipeline; Updating Steel Line Pipe Specifications
These amendments update the existing incorporation by reference of the American Petroleum Institute (API) specifications for steel 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...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Interior Piping
This notice withdraws a proposal published in the Federal Register, Vol. 45, No. 66, at 22118 on April 3, 1980, to generate information to be used in evaluating the need for Federal regulation of gas piping inside buildings. Current pipeline safety regulations apply to gas distribution lines up...
Archived Rulemaking: Fire protection and security of waterfront liquefied natural gas facilities
The Coast Guard proposes safety standards for the design and construction, equipment, operations, maintenance, personnel training, firefighting, and security at liquefied natural gas waterfront facilities. These o regulations implement the Ports and Waterways Safety Act of 1972, as amended, and...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Gas or Hazardous Liquids by Pipeline, Welding Requirements
These amendments generally conform requirements of Parts 192 and 195 for welding procedure qualification and performance and for welder qualification, with the exception of requirements for low stress welder qualification applicable only to Part 192. Welding procedure requirements are now...
Archived Rulemaking: Transportation of Hazardous Liquids; Gathering, Lines In- Rural Areas
This document corrects a typographical. error contained in a final rule on gathering lines that appeared at page 15007 in the Federal Register of Tuesday, April 22, 1986, (51 FR 15007). The correction changes a-period to a semicolon at the end of one subdivision of a paragraph.