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In This Issue

  1. Editor’s Federal Register Trivia of the Month
  2. RSPA Results Winter 2002 – 2003 Edition
  3. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  4. SPCC Plan Deadline Extensions
  5. EPA SPCC Rule Corrections
  6. RCP Develops Fantastic Version of New SPCC Regulation
  7. DOT Pipeline Compliance Workshop – March 19-20, 2003 – Houston Includes update on the new Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 signed into law on Dec 17, 2002
  8. Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Clean Water Act Regulatory Definition of “Waters of the United States”
  9. Air Permit Needs?
  10. API Operator Workshop on IMP Implementation
  11. Updates of Digital Mapping Data for Hazardous Liquid Pipeline High Consequence Areas (HCA)
  12. New Louisiana Intra-state Rules for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines
  13. New Federal Website for Comments on Rulemakings
  14. Interested in Web-Based Compliance Management Systems?
  15. Texas GLO Oil Spill Information Transfer Meeting
  16. Acquiring a pipeline?
  17. Emergency Reconstruction of Interstate Natural Gas Facilities Under the Natural Gas Act
  18. Notice of proposed rulemaking: Pipeline Integrity Management in High Consequence Areas (Gas Transmission Pipelines)
  19. NPMS Advisory Bulletin (ADB-03-02)
  20. National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) Breakout Tank Submissions

New Louisiana Intra-state Rules for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines

The State of Louisiana recently published their latest rules for intrastate hazardous liquid pipelines. Louisiana has authority to regulate intrastate gas and liquid pipelines, and publishes their entire regulations under their own regulatory system (as opposed to some other states that just incorporate the federal rules by reference, and then publish their state-specific changes). Affected parties should note that Louisiana did NOT incorporate the risk-based alternatives for pressure testing older hazardous liquid pipelines into their latest regulations.

For a copy of the latest Louisiana hazardous liquid pipeline regulations, please contact Mr. Dan Shelledy at dshelledy@your-rcp.com.

For a thorough review of state versus federal pipeline safety jurisdiction (along with a lot of other useful information), attend Day 1 of our upcoming workshop on pipeline regulations as mentioned elsewhere in this newsletter.