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  1. DOT Pipeline Compliance / Gas Integrity Management Workshop April 6-8, 2004 – Houston Includes updates on the new Gas Pipeline Integrity Management regulations published on Dec 15, 2003 recent and guidance for Operator Qualification and Public Awareness Programs.
  2. TPSSC (gas) and THLPSSC (liquid) Meetings
  3. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  4. OPS Releases Final Rule Requiring Annual Reports for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines
  5. Pending Audits?
  6. Periodic Underwater Inspections: Comment Period Extended
  7. Need A Security Plan or Audit?
  8. DOT/OPS Issues Final Gas Pipeline Integrity Management Rule
  9. Gas and Hazardous Liquid Gathering Lines: Clarification of Rulemaking Intentions and Extension of Time for Comments
  10. Acquiring a pipeline?
  11. SPCC Deadlines Extended by EPA (REMINDER)
  12. RCP’s Fantastic 1-Page Version of New SPCC Regulation
  13. API Recommended Practice 1162: Public Awareness Programs for Pipeline Operators Finalized
  14. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  15. The Texas General Land Office (GLO) Schedules Spill Response Planning Meetings
  16. CPM Leak Detection Data Collection
  17. Pipeline Integrity Management in High Consequence Areas (Gas Transmission Pipelines) – Correction
  18. Pipeline User Fees for 2004
  19. RCP Services Spotlight – Pipeline Acquisition Due Diligence & Program Support

Periodic Underwater Inspections: Comment Period Extended

The Office of Pipeline Safety has issued a notice to extend the comment period to March 10, 2004 for the proposed amendment (see the January 2004 DOT Pipeline Compliance News) to the pipeline safety regulations to require operators of gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to have procedures for periodic inspections of pipeline facilities in offshore waters less than 15 feet deep or crossing under a navigable waterway. These inspections would ensure that the pipeline is not exposed or a hazard to navigation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: L.E. Herrick by phone at (202) 366-5523, by fax at (202) 366-4566, or by e-mail at le.herrick@rspa.dot.gov, regarding the subject matter of this proposed rule. General information about RSPA’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) programs may be obtained by accessing OPS’s Internet page at ops.dot.gov.