Beginning September 1, 2002, the TNRCC will formally change its name and begin doing business as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or the TCEQ. The name change is required by our Sunset legislation, House Bill 2912. The Texas Legislature felt that the new name is shorter and gives people a better sense of the…
July 2002
Revised Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Incident and Annual Report Forms
RSPA/OPS has revised the incident and annual report forms for natural gas transmission pipelines to improve the usefulness of the reported data. The failure cause categories have been expanded from five to 25 on the incident report. The annual report form includes two new sections: (1) Mileage by decade of installation and (2) mileage by…
Effluent Limitation Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for the Construction and Development Category; Proposed Rule
EPA is proposing a range of options to address storm water discharges from construction sites. As one option, EPA is proposing technology-based effluent limitation guidelines and standards (ELGs) for storm water discharges from construction sites required to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits. As another option, EPA is proposing not to establish ELGs…
OPS workshop on Pipeline Integrity Management
OPS will conduct a workshop on Pipeline Integrity Management on July 23, 2002, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and July 24, 2002, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, 5150 Westheimer Road, Houston, Texas 77056 (tel: 713-961-1500 fax: 713-961-5045). The purpose of this workshop is to assist operators in learning where…
Upcoming RCP Seminars
RCP will conduct a 1 day workshop on Pipeline Integrity Management on July 22, 2002, in Houston. This one day workshop is an excellent introduction to the Pipeline Integrity Management regulations, and has been scheduled for the day prior to OPS’s PIM workshop in Houston (note that the OPS workshop will assume that the attendees…
Meeting of the Gas Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee
A meeting of the Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee (TPSSC), the gas pipeline advisory committee, will be held on Thursday, July 18, 2002, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Washington, DC. The TPSSC will be advising the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) and voting on the proposed definition of High Consequence Areas (HCA) for…
Draft Regulatory Evaluation of Gas Pipeline Integrity Management Rule
RSPA has posted the draft regulatory evaluation of their proposed Gas Pipeline Integrity Management rule on their website here. RSPA has indicated that they plan to have the final rule adopted sometime this year. The draft regulatory evaluation is a rather lengthy document to view in a web browser. RCP has prepared a formatted and…
Pipeline Safety: Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Mapping
The Research and Special Programs Administration’s (RSPA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) issued an advisory to gas distribution, gas transmission, and hazardous liquid pipeline systems. Owners and operators should review their information and mapping systems to ensure that the operator has clear, accurate, and useable information on the location and characteristics of all pipes, valves,…