Notice2024-19816
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Gulf South Pipeline Company, LLC
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Published
September 4, 2024
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on a request for a special permit received from the Gulf South Pipeline Company, LLC (GSPC) seeking relief from compliance with certain requirements in the federal pipeline safety regulations (PSR). 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 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72152-72153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19816]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2023-0126]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Gulf South Pipeline
Company, LLC
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA);
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on
a request for a special permit received from the Gulf South Pipeline
Company, LLC (GSPC) seeking relief from compliance with certain
requirements in the federal pipeline safety regulations (PSR). 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
October 4, 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,
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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#0962687027646a607f6c7b496d667d276e667f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f8939981d6959b918e9d8ab89c978cd69f978e">[email protected]</span></a>.
Technical: Mr. Joshua Johnson by telephone at 816-308-6074, or by
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c76736f74697d32767374726f73725c787368327b736a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="761c19051e0317581c191e180519183612190258111900">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request on
November 15, 2023, from GSPC, a subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipelines,
L.P., seeking a waiver from the requirements of 49 CFR 192.611(a) and
(d): Change in class location: Confirmation or revision of maximum
allowable operating pressure, and 49 CFR 192.619(a): Maximum allowable
operating pressure: Steel or plastic pipelines.
This special permit is being requested in lieu of pipe replacement,
pressure reduction, or new pressure tests for a Class 1 to 3 location
change on two (2) gas transmission pipeline segments totaling 12,052
feet (approximately 2.28 miles).\1\ These pipeline segments, which have
changed from a Class 1 to a Class 3 location, are as follows:
Special Permit Segments
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Special permit diameter Length survey survey Number Year MAOP
segment No. Line name (feet) station station County, state dwellings installed Seam type (psig)
(inches) (SS) (SS)
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1.............. 16 Index 819-10........ 4,580 585+52 631+32 Grayson, TX......... 0 2014 HF-ERW............. 1,350
2.............. 16 Index 819-10........ 7,472 728+40 803+12 Grayson, TX......... 31 2014 HF-ERW, SMLS....... 1,350
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The special permit request, proposed special permit with
conditions, and draft environmental assessment (DEA) for the GSPC
pipeline segments are available for review and public comments in
Docket Number PHMSA 2023-0126. PHMSA invites interested persons to
review and submit comments in the docket on the special permit request
and DEA. 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.
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\1\ GSPC's November 15, 2023, application request explained it
was seeking a special permit for 16.6 total miles of pipeline where
the class location has changed from Class 1 to Class 3. However, the
16.6 miles encompasses proposed special permit inspection areas,
versus the approximately 2.28 miles of special permit segments as
described in the proposed special permit conditions document in this
Docket No. PHMSA-2023-0126.
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 22, 2024, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2024-19816 Filed 9-3-24; 8:45 am]
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