Notice2025-19517
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC (CGT)
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Published
October 10, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
On June 26, 2025, PHMSA published a notice to solicit public comment on a request for a special permit from Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC (CGT), a subsidiary of TC Energy. The comment period closed on July 28, 2025. PHMSA is issuing this notice to extend the comment period for an additional 15 days to give the public more time to review the proposed special permit action and updated documents. At the conclusion of the 15-day extension 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 195 (Friday, October 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48238-48239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19517]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2008-0066]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Columbia Gulf
Transmission, LLC (CGT)
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA);
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On June 26, 2025, PHMSA published a notice to solicit public
comment on a request for a special permit from Columbia Gulf
Transmission, LLC (CGT), a subsidiary of TC Energy. The comment period
closed on July 28, 2025. PHMSA is issuing this notice to extend the
comment period for an additional 15 days to give the public more time
to review the proposed special permit action and updated documents. At
the conclusion of the 15-day extension 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 27, 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 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 (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 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#dbb7bebef5b8b4b4abbea99bbfb4aff5bcb4ad"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e8848d8dc68b8787988d9aa88c879cc68f879e">[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#8cf6ede5e8a2e3eee9e5e8e5cce8e3f8a2ebe3fa"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="275d464e43094845424e434e6743485309404851">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from
Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC (CGT), a subsidiary of TC Energy, on
March 27, 2024, seeking the addition of a new special permit segment to
be incorporated into special permit PHMSA-2008-0066. The new segment
request is a part of the active permit's special permit inspection area
(SPIA) #2. Special permit PHMSA-2008-0066 allows CGT 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 2 to a Class 3 location.
Special permit PHMSA-2008-0066 is active and was granted on July
21, 2021; \1\ it is effective until July 21, 2031 for 41 special permit
segments, which include 146,027 feet (approximately 27.657 miles) of
the CGT natural gas transmission pipeline system located in the State
of Tennessee. The new special permit segment is requested for 7,900
feet (approximately 1.496 miles). If granted, the special permit
segments would total 153,927 feet (approximately 29.153 miles).
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\1\ Special Permit PHMSA-2008-0066 was originally issued on
March 2, 2010 and renewed on July 21, 2021.
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The requested new special permit segment, is as follows:
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Maximum
allowable
Outside operating
SPS No. Status County, State diameter Line name Length Year pressure
(inches) (feet) installed (pounds per
square inch
gauge)
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42....................... New Segment............ Wilson County, TN...... 30 ML 200................. 7,900 1965 1,007
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Upon receipt of this request, PHMSA reviewed the final
environmental assessment (FEA) and 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 environmental assessment is required for this proposal.
CGT's new special permit segment request, active special permit
with conditions, and FEA are available for review and public comment in
Docket No. PHMSA-2008-0066. PHMSA invites interested persons to review
and submit comments in the docket on the new 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.
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 October 1, 2025 under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Linda Daugherty,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2025-19517 Filed 10-9-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-60-P
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