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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

TCEQ Releases 2003 Enforcement Report

State law requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to prepare an electronic enforcement report by December 1 each year that reports on the enforcement actions for each type of regulatory program in the agency. This report can be found at www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/enforcement/AER/FY03/EnfRptFY03.pdf. This enforcement report contains statistical indicators and a comparative analysis for the following enforcement related activities:

  • number of investigations and complaints by program and region;
  • number of notices of violation issued by program and region;
  • number and type of enforcement actions and lists of each action denoting the regulated entity name and location by county and region;
  • amount of penalties assessed, deferred, and required to be paid to General Revenue;
  • supplemental environmental project costs, offsets, and descriptions;
  • number and percentage of enforcement actions issued to persons who previously have committed the same or similar violations;
  • number and percentage of enforcement orders issued to entities that have been the subject of a previous enforcement order;
  • classification of violations as major, moderate, or minor;
  • most frequently cited rules/statutes in enforcement actions;
  • emissions events;
  • complaint assessment; and
  • other information which the Commission deems relevant, including information on the results of enforcement actions (i.e., environmental benefit, pollutant reductions, etc.).