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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

Pipeline Integrity Management in High Consequence Areas (Gas Transmission Pipelines) – Correction

OPS has corrected the effective date of a final rule published in the Federal Register on December 15, 2003 (68 FR 69778) [Docket No. RSPA-00-7666; Amendment 192-95]. That rule requires operators to develop integrity management programs for gas transmission pipelines located where a leak or rupture could do the most harm, i.e., could impact high consequence areas (HCAs). The rule requires gas transmission pipeline operators to perform ongoing assessments of pipeline integrity, to improve data collection, integration and analysis, to repair and remediate the pipeline as necessary, and to implement preventive and mitigative actions. The published effective date was in error. This notice corrects the effective date from January 14, 2004, to February 14, 2004, to meet the 60 day requirement for Congressional review of major rules. (5 U.S.C. 801(a)(4).)