The Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration
(PHMSA) published a notice in Monday’s Federal Register (available on line
Saturday; 78 FR
59906-59907) correcting an earlier publication of an ‘NPRM’ on pipeline
class location requirements and extending the comment period on that action.
Last month PHMSA published an ‘NPRM’ on the topic. As I
noted in my
post on the publication it did not really take the form of a notice of
proposed rulemaking in that it didn’t actually pose any specific changes to
existing regulations or propose new
regulations. It turns out that it should have been characterized as a ‘notice
of inquiry’.
This notice of inquiry is intended to gather information
supporting a congressionally mandated {§5 Pipeline Safety, Regulatory
Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 (PL
112-90)} report on whether integrity management program (IMP) requirements
should be expanded beyond HCAs and whether such expansion would mitigate the
need for class location requirements. PHMSA is still looking for responses to
the questions outlined in the original notice.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) and American Gas
Association (AGA) have requested an extension of the time for submitting
comments so that they can get information from their member organizations to
fully answer PHMSA’s questions. PHMSA has agreed and the new deadline for
submitting comments is November 1sth 2013. Again, public comments may be
submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket # PHMSA-2013-0161).
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