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In This Issue

  1. PHMSA Proposed Revisions to the HL Accident Report Form 7000-1
  2. PHMSA Form Changes Beginning July 1st, 2020
  3. PHMSA Issues Guidance and Stay of Enforcement Due to COVID-19
  4. NEW Recommended Practice Published: API RP 1182, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Large Diameter Rural Gas Gathering Lines
  5. NEW Recommended Practice Published: API RP 80, 2nd Edition, Definition of Onshore Gas Gathering Lines
  6. Damage Prevention Rule Changes in Pennsylvania
  7. April is National Safe Digging Month
  8. RCP On-Line Training Survey

Damage Prevention Rule Changes in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has modified its requirements for damage prevention programs in P.L. 852, No. 287 – Underground Utility Line Protection Law.  In addition to a multitude of minor and editorial changes, the law now specifically applies to unregulated gas gathering lines.  It also establishes a state-level Damage Prevention Committee, with a responsibility to:

  1. Review a report of an alleged violation of this act and damage prevention investigator findings and recommendations.
  2. Issue a warning letter to a person as deemed appropriate by the committee or as recommended by the damage prevention investigator.
  3. Issue an informal determination that imposes an administrative penalty.
  4. Require a person to attend a damage prevention educational program.
  5. Issue an informal determination that modifies or dismisses a recommendation of committee staff.

The new act takes effect 120 days after publication (And, for all of you really cool people, that’s 120 days after March 23, 2020).