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United States Department of Transportation
This notice announces a public meeting of PHMSA's Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee (TPSSC) to vote on a proposed rule requiring pipeline operators to consider internal corrosion when designing and constructing new and replaced gas transmission pipelines.
PHMSA will conduct a public workshop to discuss the effectiveness of pipeline control room operations and to obtain comments on ways to enhance the effectiveness of pipeline control room operations and on findings from the Controller Certification Project (CCERT).
PHMSA held a half day public workshop on Hazardous Liquid Low Stress Pipelines to solicit comments on a risk-based approach to protecting unusually sensitive areas from risks associated with low stress lines.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) will hold a public meeting to discuss raising the allowable operating pressure on certain natural gas transmission pipelines. Pipelines are the energy highways of the Nation that provide the most efficient means to transport vast volumes of natural gas on which we depend. Raising the maximum allowable operating pressures (MAOP) for natural gas pipelines would allow more gas to flow through these pipelines.
The Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR) are co-sponsoring a workshop on Mechanical Damage (MD) with the pipeline industry trade associations (American Gas Association, Association of Oil Pipe Lines, American Public Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, Common Ground Alliance, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, In Line Inspection Association and the Pipeline Research Council International).
This technical workshop is aimed at sharing information on MD among operators and technical experts. Resulting workshop outputs will broaden regulator and operator perspectives with information vital in pipeline inspection and oversight, and for reviewing research priorities addressing the problems posed by MD in operating gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. Discussions included:
