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This final rule requires that each compressor building in a gas pipeline compressor station have a fixed gas detection and alarm system by September 16, 1996, unless the building has at least 50 percent of its upright side area permanently open, or is in an unattended field compressor station...
This final rule requires operators of distribution lines located outside business districts to use leak detectors to carry out required leakage surveys. Instead of using leak detectors, some operators survey for leaks by looking for dead or dying vegetation, a less reliable method. The rule will...
This document is a common preamble to five final rules being published by several operating administrations of the Department of Transportation (FAA, FHWA, FRA, RSPA & USCG) elsewhere in today's issue of the Federal Register. The Department needs employer drug testing program data in order...
This final rule sets forth regulations to require. operators of gas, hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities who are subject to 49 CFR parts 192, 193, and 195 to implement, maintain, and submit an annual report for their drug testing program data...
This notice proposes to require operators of gas distribution pipelines who do not maintain customer-owned service lines to advise their customers of the proper maintenance of these gas lines and of the potential hazards of not properly maintaining these gas lines. This proposed rulemaking, in...
RSPA invites representatives of liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, state and local government, and the public to an open meeting on proposed changes to the LNG regulations. RSPA isdrafting amendments to the LNG regulations by replacing substantive provisions of Part 193 of title 49 of the...
This final rule establIshes procedures to be followed in the operation and maintenance (O&M) of gas pipeline facilities. This action amends current standards by requiring regulated gas pipeline operators to include detailed procedures regarding normal and abnormal operation; maintenance and...
This document relates to a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published on Thursday, February 3, 1994 (59 FR 5168).. The NPRM proposed to require operators of gas distribution systems who do not maintain buried customer-cwned service lines to advise their customers of the proper maintenance of...
This final rule amends the gas, hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipeline safety regulations to require that certain new and replacement pipelines be designed and constructed to accommodate the passage of instrumented internal inspection devices (smart pigs). This action was taken in response...