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  1. Register Now for the DOT Pipeline Compliance Workshop
  2. Reconsideration of Natural Gas Pipeline MAOP for Class Locations
  3. Pipeline Safety: Mechanical Damage Technical Workshop
  4. Integrity Management Services
  5. Hurricane Impacts in the Gulf of Mexico
  6. Need to Update your Response Plan (FRP, ICP or OSRP)?
  7. Hurricane Response Conference Set For March
  8. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  9. Safe Excavation and Backfilling Advisory
  10. OPS Clarification of Public Awareness Requirements
  11. Need to make sure your Public Awareness Program meets API RP 1162 standards?
  12. Liquid Pipeline Integrity Data on the Web
  13. RCP Services Spotlight – RCP Auditing, Due Diligence and Expert Witness Services
  14. Gas Gathering Line – Definition, TPSSC Meeting
  15. Need to Update Your Current Operator Qualification Program?
  16. New Chief of PHMSA?
  17. PHMSA Web Site Initiative
  18. RCP’s Fantastic 1-Page Version of SPCC Regulation
  19. Excavation Monitoring and Observation
  20. Will your SPCC Plan pass an EPA inspection based on the new SPCC Inspectors’ Guidance document?
  21. Revision to Gas Integrity Management Inspection Protocols

Revision to Gas Integrity Management Inspection Protocols

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has made some minor changes to the Gas Integrity Management inspection protocols, based on the 2005 inspection experience.

Some protocols were combined, resulting in the deletion and renumbering of several protocols. Others were edited for corrections or clarification.

  • M.02.a was edited to clarify that it applies when a covered segment is located in a State where OPS has an interstate agent agreement.
  • D.06.c was moved to D.07.e and edited to indicate it applies to the “pre-assessment and region identification.” The old D.06.c was deleted.
  • D.06.c moved to D.08.e and edited to indicate it applies to the “direct assessment.”
  • D.06.c was moved to D.09.d and edited to indicate it applies to the “post-assessment.”

For the most current inspection protocols and a summary of the changes, see the Implementing Integrity Management website at http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/gasimp/documents.htm.