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In This Issue

  1. DOT Pipeline Compliance Workshop – August 17-18, 2005
  2. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  3. Pipeline Operator Public Awareness Program Final rule; correction
  4. Integrity Management Services
  5. Office of Pipeline Safety OPA-90 Rule; correction
  6. 2005 Offshore Hurricane Readiness and Recovery Conference
  7. RCP Services Spotlight – Underwater Inspection Procedures and Interval Risk Modeling
  8. B31Q Update
  9. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  10. Critical Energy Infrastructure Information
  11. Need to Update Your Current Operator Qualification Program?
  12. Use of Polyamide-11 Plastic Pipe in Gas Pipelines
  13. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  14. Proposed Reissuance of NPDES Permit Number AKG280000
  15. Are Your Response Plans Current?
  16. New PHMSA Deputy Administrator
  17. Exclusion Zones for Marine LNG Spills: Reopening of comment period
  18. FERC Guidance on PIM Cost Treatment for Gas Pipelines
  19. Public Meeting on Applying, Interpreting, and Evaluating Data from ILI Devices

New PHMSA Deputy Administrator

Brigham A. McCown has been named the Deputy Administrator for the newly created Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. He most recently served as the first Chief Counsel of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration where he was responsible for oversight of legal and legislative issues involving the commercial motor carrier, motor coach and moving industry. Prior to joining the department in 2003, he was a member of Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C., a Dallas based law firm where he specialized in litigation and government relations. McCown spent the last 17 years as an aviator and reserve duty with the U.S. Navy. During this time has participated in Operation Desert Storm, Haiti’s Operation Support Democracy, counter narcotics operations and most recently in Operation Unified Assistance where he participated in Tsunami relief operations in Southeast Asia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1988, and a law degree from Northern Kentucky University in 1997.