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  1. Pipeline Industry Implementation of Effective Public Awareness Programs Self Assessment Now Available
  2. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  3. Electronic Contingency Plans
  4. Pipeline Safety: Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) Workshop
  5. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  6. TCEQ Adopts New Requirements for Petroleum Storage Tank Releases
  7. Need A HAZMAT Security Plan?
  8. New Texas Oil Spill CD Toolkit (2003)
  9. RCP’s Fantastic 1-Page Version of New SPCC Regulation
  10. National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (PREP) Schedule
  11. API Publishes Pipeline Right-of-Way Awareness Brochure
  12. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  13. Texas Gas Association – Fall Transmission Roundtable
  14. Direct Assessment Meeting
  15. National Forest Service Interim Direction for Processing Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Proposals
  16. RSPA Administrator Presentation
  17. Partnership for Excellence in Pipeline Safety
  18. Gathering Line Definition: Public Meeting and Request for Comments
  19. RCP Services Spotlight – DOT Pipeline Public Awareness Programs

Direct Assessment Meeting

The Research and Special Programs Administration’s (RSPA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR) will cosponsor a workshop with the pipeline industry trade associations (API, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, Association of Oil Pipelines, American Gas Association, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), and American Public Gas Association) on November 4, 2003 at the Wyndham Greenspoint North Hotel, 12400 Greenspoint Dr, Houston, TX 77060 to discuss direct assessment technology. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of direct assessment technology as it relates to natural gas integrity management. The RSPA/OPS will gather issues presented at the workshop needing additional clarification or guidance material development. The purpose of the workshop is to:

  • identify issues with direct assessment that need clarification or additional guidance material development;
  • familiarize operators with the current status of direct assessment research and development;
  • provide examples of implemented direct assessment programs; and
  • familiarize operators with the current status of development of NACE direct assessment standards for External Corrosion, Internal Corrosion, and Stress Corrosion Cracking.

Use the following link to register for the OPS meeting: primis.rspa.dot.gov/meetings/MtgHome.mtg?&mtg;=19.

Note also that OPS intends to do a web-cast of this meeting. Use the same link above to participate in the webcast.

Note that NACE International will also have a Direct Assessment workshop in the same hotel on Nov. 5-7. For additional information on the NACE meeting, click here: www.nace.org/ecda/.