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  1. PHMSA Recognizes One-Call Operations
  2. PHMSA Publishes Internal Inspection Guidance Materials
  3. Pending Audits?
  4. Minerals Management Service Reorganization Order No. 3299
  5. Changes in Louisiana “Dig Law”
  6. New York – Emergency Rule on Electrical Bonding of Gas Piping, and Protection of Gas Piping Against Physical Damage
  7. It’s June. Have you completed your Public Awareness Effectiveness Evaluation?
  8. SGA Environmental, Safety & Health, Training and HR Generalist Conference
  9. TGA O&M Conference
  10. PHMSA/RRC Pipeline Safety Seminar June 16 – 18, 2010 in Corpus Christi
  11. Does your facility store emergency containers ≥55 gal on site for the hurricane season?
  12. PHMSA/NAPSR Public Awareness Workshop June 30, 2010 in Houston
  13. API Public Awareness Workshop July 1, 2010 in Houston

New York – Emergency Rule on Electrical Bonding of Gas Piping, and Protection of Gas Piping Against Physical Damage

I.D. No. DOS-16-10-00012-EP

The State of New York has approved an emergency rule that amends several existing provisions in, and adds several new provisions to, the 2007 edition of the Residential Code of New York State (the ”2007 RCNYS”), the publication which is incorporated by reference in 19 NYCRR Part 1220, and the 2007 edition of the Fuel Gas Code of new York State (the ”2007 FGCNYS”), the publication which is incorporated by reference in 19 NYCRR Part 1224.

Effective Date: April 2, 2010
The emergency rule will expire June 30, 2010.

The new and amended provisions in the 2007 RCNYS and 2007 FGCNYS:

  • Clarify the situations in which a gas piping system that contains no corrugated stainless steel tubing (”CSST”) will be considered to be ”likely to become energized” and, therefore, required to be bonded to an effective ground-fault current path;
  • Specify that a gas piping system that contains no CSST may be bonded in any manner described in Section E3509.7 of the 2007 RCNYS, in cases where the 2007 RCNYS applies, or in any manner described in Section 250.104(B) of NFPA 70-2005, in cases where the 2007 FGCNYS applies;
  • Require gas piping systems that contain any CSST to be electrically continuous and bonded to the electrical service grounding electrode system at the point where the gas service enters the building or structure;
  • Specify standards for the installation and bonding of CSST, including standards for the size of the bonding jumper, standards for bonding clamp, standards for the place and manner of attachment of the bonding clamp, and standards for separation of the CSST from other electrically conductive systems;
  • Specify standards for protection of piping other than black or galvanized steel from physical damage, including standards for the types of shield plates to be used, standards for determining the location where shield plates are required, and additional standards for protection of piping made of CSST; and
  • Clarify the situations in which section E3509.7 in the RCNYS (entitled ”Bonding other metal piping”) will apply.
  • This rule also provides that the 2005 edition of standard NFPA 70, entitled ”National Electrical Code” shall be deemed to be one of the standards incorporated by reference into 19 NYCRR Part 1224.

Public hearing(s) will be held at: 10:00 a.m., June 8, 2010 at Perry B. Duryea Jr. State Office Bldg., Classrooms 2 and 3, 250 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Hauppauge, NY.

The text of rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from: Joseph Ball, Department of State, 99 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12231-0001, (518) 474-6740, email: Joseph.Ball@dos.state.ny.us. The full text is posted at the State website.