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  1. PHMSA Notice UGS Interim Final Rule
  2. PHMSA’s Underground Gas Storage Facility Safety Site Assessment Report
  3. Underground Gas Storage Compliance
  4. Proposed Revisions to Gas Distribution Annual Report (PHMSA F 7100.1-1)
  5. DOT Regulatory Review Comment Period Reopened
  6. Oklahoma Pipeline Safety Fine Limit Removed
  7. RCP Employees Recognized in National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report
  8. IPC 2018 Call for Abstracts
  9. Underwater Inspection Procedures & Inspection Interval Risk Model Updates
  10. Coastal Ecological Unusually Sensitive Areas (USAs) Public Meeting
  11. Pressure Testing Webinar – Advantages of Using TestOp®
  12. MaxOP Training

Oklahoma Pipeline Safety Fine Limit Removed

The State of Oklahoma has modified its regulations in Title 165 – Corporation Commission, Chapter 20 – Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety, 165:20-13-1. Scope and Fines, to remove the explicit limit of $500k per violation. The new section reads (underline is modified text):

This Subchapter prescribes the procedures utilized by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission in carrying out its responsibilities regarding pipeline safety under 52 O.S. 1981, Section 5 and 52 O.S. Supp. Sections 47.1 through 47.8, and is designed to utilize enforcement procedures already in place by hereby adopting the Commission’s Rules of Practice, OAC 165:5, that are pertinent and necessary to carry out the enforcement of pipeline safety rules and regulations. (1) For each violation of a Commission rule in Subchapters 5 and 10, the Commission may issue an order pursuant to 17 O.S. Section 1 et seq. fining an operator up to the maximum amount provided by 17 O.S. Section 6.1.