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  1. Who is RCP?
  2. Final NPDES Exemption for Oil and Gas Exploration, Production, Processing, or Treatment Operations or Transmission Facilities
  3. New Offshore Discharge Reporting Form
  4. Texas Pipeline Integrity Management – Proposed Revisions
  5. Will your SPCC Plan pass an EPA inspection based on the new SPCC Inspectors’ Guidance document?
  6. Updates to Standards “Incorporated by Reference”
  7. Public Awareness Plans
  8. Gas Integrity Management – 7 year Re-assessment FAQs
  9. Reporting of Damage to Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities to FERC
  10. FERC Policy Statement on Natural Gas Interchangeability
  11. Minerals Management Service Seeks Comments
  12. Need to Update Your Current Operator Qualification Program?
  13. MMS Proposed Changes to ROW Pipeline Requirements

Texas Pipeline Integrity Management – Proposed Revisions

Gas Utilities Docket No. 9665

The Texas Railroad Commission has proposed minor changes to their pipeline integrity regulations in 16 TAC §8.101 [see TR, Volume 31, Number 22, 06/02/2006, pages 4554-4555]. Under the existing regulations, the Commission has to approve the use of direct assessment or other technology or assessment methodology not specifically listed in the regulations. The proposed change will assign the Safety Division director as the Commission’s designee for approval of direct assessment and other integrity assessment technology methods not listed in the rule. This change will allow the staff to work more closely with the federal Office of Pipeline Safety as new technologies become available for integrity assessment.

The status of Commission rulemakings in progress is available at www.rrc.state.tx.us/rules/proposed.html.