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  1. DOT/OPS Issues Final Gas Pipeline Integrity Management Rule
  2. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  3. Stress Corrosion Cracking Meeting Materials
  4. OCS Rights-of-Use and Easement and Pipeline Rights-of-Way
  5. Periodic Underwater Inspections: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
  6. Need A HAZMAT Security Plan?
  7. Notice of Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random Drug Testing
  8. Reorganization of the Office of Pipeline Safety
  9. NESHAP – Bulk Gasoline Terminals and Pipeline Breakout Stations
  10. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  11. Advisory Bulletin (ADB-03-09) Re: Potential Service Disruptions in SCADA Systems
  12. The Texas Railroad Commission to Hold the 54th Annual State of the Industry Meeting
  13. Texas Railroad Commission to begin Formulation of Texas Energy Plan
  14. Acquiring a pipeline?
  15. OPS, PRCI and GTI Hosts Pipeline R&D; Forum
  16. TCEQ Releases 2003 Enforcement Report
  17. API Recommended Practice 1162: Public Awareness Programs for Pipeline Operators Finalized
  18. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  19. Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Reporting
  20. Pipeline Safety: Meetings of the Pipeline Safety Advisory Committees [Docket No. RSPA-98-4470]
  21. RCP Services Spotlight – Pipeline Integrity Management

Stress Corrosion Cracking Meeting Materials

The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR) cosponsored a workshop on stress corrosion cracking (SCC) with the pipeline industry trade associations on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 in Houston Texas (see our November, 2003 newsletter). The workshop provided a forum for the discussion of SCC phenomena in both gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. Workshop documents have now been posted at the following website:

primis.rspa.dot.gov/gasimp/mtg_120203.htm

RSPA/OPS recently issued an Advisory Bulletin to remind owners and operators of gas transmission and hazardous liquid pipelines to consider SCC as a risk factor when developing and implementing Integrity Management Plans. All owners and operators of pipeline systems, whether or not their pipeline systems are subject to the Integrity Management Plan rules, should determine whether their pipeline system is susceptible to SCC and assess the impact of SCC on pipeline integrity. Based on this evaluation an operator should prioritize application of internal inspection, hydrostatic testing, or other forms of integrity verification.