Notice2024-08774
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Southern Natural Gas Company, LLC
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Published
April 24, 2024
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on a request for special permit received from the Southern Natural Gas Company, LLC (SNG). The special permit request is seeking relief from compliance with certain requirements in the Federal pipeline safety regulations. At the conclusion of the 30-day comment period, PHMSA will review the comments received from this notice as part of its evaluation to grant or deny the special permit request.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 80 (Wednesday, April 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 31250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08774]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2023-0136]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Southern Natural Gas
Company, LLC
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA);
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on
a request for special permit received from the Southern Natural Gas
Company, LLC (SNG). The special permit request is seeking relief from
compliance with certain requirements in the Federal pipeline safety
regulations. At the conclusion of the 30-day comment period, PHMSA will
review the comments received from this notice as part of its evaluation
to grant or deny the special permit request.
DATES: Submit any comments regarding this special permit request by May
24, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments should reference the docket number for this special
permit request and may be submitted in the following ways:
<bullet> E-Gov website: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. This site
allows the public to enter comments on any Federal Register notice
issued by any agency.
<bullet> Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
<bullet> Mail: Docket Management System: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
<bullet> Hand Delivery: Docket Management System: U.S. Department
of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays.
Instructions: You should identify the docket number for the special
permit request you are commenting on at the beginning of your comments.
If you submit your comments by mail, please submit two (2) copies. To
receive confirmation that PHMSA has received your comments, please
include a self-addressed stamped postcard. Internet users may submit
comments at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Note: There is a privacy statement published on <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Comments, including any personal information
provided, are posted without changes or edits to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Confidential Business Information: Confidential Business
Information (CBI) is commercial or financial information that is both
customarily and treated as private by its owner. Under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from public
disclosure. If your comments responsive to this notice contain
commercial or financial information that is customarily treated as
private, that you treat as private, and that is relevant or responsive
to this notice, it is important that you clearly designate the
submitted comments as CBI. Pursuant to 49 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) 190.343, you may ask PHMSA to give confidential treatment to
information you give to the agency by taking the following steps: (1)
mark each page of the original document submission containing CBI as
``Confidential;'' (2) send PHMSA, along with the original document, a
second copy of the original document with the CBI deleted; and (3)
explain why the information you are submitting is CBI. Unless you are
notified otherwise, PHMSA will treat such marked submissions as
confidential under the FOIA, and they will not be placed in the public
docket of this notice. Submissions containing CBI should be sent to Kay
McIver, DOT, PHMSA-PHP-80, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590-0001. Any commentary PHMSA receives that is not specifically
designated as CBI will be placed in the public docket for this matter.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
General: Ms. Kay McIver by telephone at 202-366-0113, or by email
at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#305b51491e5d535946554270545f441e575f46"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b0dbd1c99eddd3d9c6d5c2f0d4dfc49ed7dfc6">[email protected]</span></a>.
Technical: Mr. Earnest Scott by telephone at 202-909-7529, or by
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#482d293a262d3b3c663b2b273c3c082c273c662f273e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c5a0a4b7aba0b6b1ebb6a6aab1b185a1aab1eba2aab3">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from
SNG, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, on December 27, 2023, seeking a
waiver from the Federal pipeline safety regulations in 49 CFR
192.611(a), (d), and 192.619(a), where a gas transmission pipeline
segment have undergone changes from a Class 1 to Class 3 location.
The Cypress Line Pipeline segment is a 24-inch diameter natural gas
transmission pipeline, 0.176 miles in length, located in Chatham
County, Georgia. The maximum allowable operating pressure for the
Cypress Line Pipeline segment is 1,250 pounds per square inch gauge.
This special permit is being requested to allow SNG to operate the
Cypress Line Pipeline Segment 727 in a Class 3 location at its current
operating pressure by implementing enhanced integrity management
procedures in lieu of replacing pipe or lowering the operating
pressure, as required by part 192.
The special permit request, proposed special permit with
conditions, and draft environmental assessment (DEA) for the above
listed SNG pipeline segment are available for review and public comment
in Docket Number PHMSA 2023-0136. PHMSA invites interested persons to
review and submit comments on the special permit request, proposed
special permit with conditions, and DEA in the docket. Please submit
comments on any potential safety, environmental, and other relevant
considerations implicated by the special permit request. Comments may
include relevant data.
Before issuing a decision on the special permit request, PHMSA will
evaluate all comments received on or before the comments closing date.
Comments received after the closing date will be evaluated if it is
possible to do so without incurring additional expense or delay. PHMSA
will consider each relevant comment it receives in making its decision
to grant or deny this special permit request.
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 19, 2024, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2024-08774 Filed 4-23-24; 8:45 am]
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