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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

SPCC Deadlines Extended by EPA (REMINDER)

EPA extended (68 FR 18890), by eighteen months, the compliance dates in §112.3(a) and (b). The longer time frame is intended to address concerns raised by the regulated community, and also avoids a potentially overwhelming number of individual extension requests.

Summary of Compliance Dates – If an onshore or offshore facility that:

  1. was in operation on or before August 16, 2002 must maintain its existing Plan, but must amend it, if necessary, to ensure compliance, on or before August 17, 2004, and must implement the amended Plan as soon as possible, but not later than February 18, 2005.
  2. becomes operational after August 16, 2002 through February 18,2005, and could reasonably be expected to have a discharge as described in 40 C FR 112.1(b), must prepare a Plan on or before February 18, 2005, and fully implement it as soon as possible, but not later than February 18, 2005.
  3. becomes operational after February 18, 2005, and could reasonably be expected to have a discharge as described in 40 CFR 112.1(b), must prepare and implement a Plan BEFORE it begins operations.