Notice2025-11785
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit
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Published
June 26, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on a request to reincorporate one (1) special permit segment submitted by Southern Natural Gas (SNG), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. SNG 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 90, Number 121 (Thursday, June 26, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27383-27384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11785]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2016-0006]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA);
DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on
a request to reincorporate one (1) special permit segment submitted by
Southern Natural Gas (SNG), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. SNG 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
July 28, 2025.
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 United States
Code 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) Sec. 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 Lee Cooper, 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: Mr. Lee Cooper by telephone at 202-913-3171, or by email
at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#076b6262296468687762754763687329606871"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="97fbf2f2b9f4f8f8e7f2e5d7f3f8e3b9f0f8e1">[email protected]</span></a>.
Technical: Mr. Zaid Obeidi by telephone at 202-768-4354, or by
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#097368606d27666b6c606d60496d667d276e667f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="443e252d206a2b26212d202d04202b306a232b32">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from
SNG, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc., on January 27, 2025, seeking
to reincorporate a previously issued special permit segment into
special permit PHMSA-2016-0006. The new special permit segment request
is a part of the active permit's special permit inspection area (SPIA).
Special permit PHMSA-2016-0006 allows SNG to deviate from the Federal
pipeline safety regulations in 49 CFR 192.611(a), (d), and 192.619(a),
where a gas transmission pipeline segment has undergone a change from a
Class 1 to a Class 3 location.
Special permit PHMSA-2016-0006 was initially granted on September
1, 2016 and included the requested special permit segment. Due to a
class location drop, which made the need for a special permit
unnecessary for this specific special permit segment, when the special
permit was reissued on March 17, 2023, the relevant special permit
segment was not included. The currently issued special permit is
effective until March 17, 2028 for 16 special permit segments, which
include 16,792 feet (approximately 3.180 miles) of the SNG natural gas
transmission pipeline system located in the states of Alabama, Georgia,
and Louisiana. The special permit segment requested to be
reincorporated is 948 feet (approximately 0.179 miles). If granted, the
special permit segments would total 17,740 feet (approximately 3.360
miles).
The requested new special permit segment details are as follows:
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Maximum allowable
Outside Length Year operating pressure
SPS No. Status County, state diameter Line name (feet) installed (pounds per square
(inches) inch gauge)
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729 (Previously known as segment New Segment......... Autauga, AL........ 30 South Main 2nd Loop 948 1981 1,200
2). Line.
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Upon receipt of this request, an Environmental Protection
Specialist from PHMSA's Environmental Analysis and Compliance Division
reviewed the Final Environmental Assessment (FEA) and its findings. In
consideration of this, PHMSA finds that the expansion of the proposed
special permit would not result in significant impacts to the human
environment. Furthermore, the existing FEA and Finding of No
Significant Impact remain adequate, pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
No further
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environmental assessment is required for this proposal.
SNG's new special permit segment request, active special permit
with conditions, and Final Environmental Assessment are available for
review and public comment in Docket No. PHMSA-2016-0006. PHMSA invites
interested persons to review and submit comments in the docket on the
special permit segment request. 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.
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 June 24, 2025 under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Linda Daugherty,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2025-11785 Filed 6-25-25; 8:45 am]
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