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  1. Texas Issues Final Rule for Mandatory Gas Distribution Facility Replacements
  2. RCP’s Web-Based Compliance Management Systems
  3. DIMP Integration
  4. Key Features
  5. Advisory Bulletin (ADB-11-02) Dangers of Abnormal Snow & Ice Build-Up on Gas Distribution Systems
  6. PHMSA Updates Gas Distribution Integrity Management FAQ’s
  7. PHMSA Updates Hazardous Liquid Integrity Management FAQ’s
  8. NTSB Hearing on San Bruno
  9. MAOP Analysis Services
  10. PHMSA Notice of Extension for Comments on Collection of Info for Periodic Underwater Inspections
  11. TPSSC and THLPSSC Meetings
  12. Control Room Management Services
  13. API Pipeline Conference April 12 – 13
  14. Gas Industry Conferences at a Glance
  15. DOT Pipeline Compliance Workshop – May 10-12, 2011
  16. CGA Excavation Safety Conference & Expo March 8 -10
  17. National Safe Digging Month
  18. RCP Continues to Add More Firepower to its Staff

PHMSA Notice of Extension for Comments on Collection of Info for Periodic Underwater Inspections

Docket No. PHMSA–2010–0355

The Federal pipeline safety regulations (49 CFR parts 190–199) require operators to conduct appropriate underwater inspections in the Gulf of Mexico. If an operator finds that its pipeline is exposed on the seabed floor or constitutes a hazard to navigation, the operator must contact the National Response Center by telephone within 24 hours of discovery to report the location of the exposed pipeline.

The Department of Transportation/Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a second notice to operators of underwater pipeline facilities (allowing an additional 30 days) to submit comments to the OMB regarding the need for the proposed collection of information for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including:

  • whether the information will have practical utility;
  • the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
  • ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
  • ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques

Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: Desk Officer for DOT/ PHMSA, 725 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503.

Comments are due on or before March 16, 2011.