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By exception (49 CFR 195.1(b)(3), the Federal pipeline safety standards governing hazardous liquid pipelines do not apply to pipelines operated at 20 percent or less of the specified minimum yield strength (SMYS) of the pipe. In this Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), the Research...
Gas service lines are frequently severed or damaged by excavation causing loss of life, injury and property damage by fire and explosion. OPS seeks public participation in determining whether operators should be required to install excess flow valves on service lines to improve safety and reduce...
RSPA is making changes in the procedures and policy by which its Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) addresses alleged deficiencies in operators' required plans and procedures. OPS administers a statutory process for amending plans and procedures it finds to be inadequate to achieve safe operations...
This ANPRM solicits ideas on: revising the allocation formula for distributing federal pipeline safety grants to states beginning in Calendar Year (CY) 1992. The purpose of the grant funds is to encourage-the states to adopt and enforce minimum federal pipelinesafety regulations. The Department...
This notice proposes regulations to control the concentration of hydrogen sulfide (II2S in natural gas pipeline systems because high concentrations of HS are extremely toxic if released. The proposed rule would: (a) Prohibit operators from transporting in a transmission line downstream of gas...
Natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines buried in shallow offshore waters in the Gulf of Mexico have been involved in accidents with fishing and other vessels. Public Law 101-599 was enacted to determine the extent to which pipelines in shallow waters in the Gulf of Mexico may be a hazard to...
In Notice I of this proceeding, RSPA requested public comment on the need to regulate the safety of hazardous liquid pipelines operated at 20 percent or less of specified minimum yield strength (SMYS). Now the Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety announces that he will invite...
This final rule establishes new safety regulations governing the transportation by pipeline of carbon dioxide in a supercritical state. The regulations for carbon dioxide are similar to the regulations for hazardous liquids. Section. 211 of the Pipeline Safety Reauthorization Act of 1988 (Pub. L...
This notice corrects the agency number of FR Doc. 91-16068, published in the Federal Register on July 9,1991 (56 FR 31087). The agency number heading (in brackets) on page 31087, is changed to read "Docket No. PS-114; Amendments 190-3, 192-66, 193- 7, 195-46, and 199-4."
This document corrects an amendatory instruction of FR Document 91-10068, published in the Federal Register on July 9, 1991, (56 FR 31087). On page 31091, amendatory instruction 15 is changed to read as follows: "15. Section 199.7 is amended by redesignating paragraphs (a) through (d) as (1)...