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  1. RCP’s VP of Project Development to Speak at the Southern Gas Association’s Public Awareness Workshop, March 23-24
  2. OPS Issues New Liquid Pipeline Integrity Management Inspection Protocols
  3. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  4. GAS IMP Oversight Implementation and Inspection Protocol Workshop Presentation Materials Available
  5. Operator Qualification Programs – Direct final rule
  6. Operator Qualification Update – B31Q Comments
  7. Questions Regarding OPA 90 Containment Credits?
  8. Response Plans for Onshore Transportation-Related Oil Pipelines; Final Rule
  9. Are Your Response Plans Current?
  10. Texas Pipeline Regulations – Proposed Revisions
  11. Need help with the new Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) deadline?
  12. New Research and Innovative Technology and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrations Announced
  13. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  14. Three-Digit Dialing Roll Out Planned for March 10
  15. Air Permit Needs?
  16. API Publishes RP 1133, Guidelines for Onshore Hydrocarbon Pipelines Affecting High Consequence Floodplains, First Edition
  17. RCP’s Fantastic 1-Page Version of New SPCC Regulation
  18. Railroad Commissioners Approve Pilot Project To Help Conserve Water At Drilling Sites
  19. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  20. RCP Services Spotlight – Underwater Inspection Procedures and Interval Risk Modeling

Texas Pipeline Regulations – Proposed Revisions

The Texas Railroad Commission proposes amendments to Title 16, Part 1 of the Texas Administrative Code, §8.1, relating to General Applicability and Standards, §8.201, relating to Pipeline Safety Program Fees, and §8.210, relating to Reports.

Section 8.1 concerns minimum safety standards and adopts by reference the United States Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) pipeline safety standards. The current rule adopts the federal pipeline safety standards as of April 9, 2004; the proposed amendment will show this date as September 14, 2004. This will incorporate into the Texas rules the recent federal amendments numbered 192-96, 192-97, 192-98, 195-82, 195-81 (with subsequent correction), 199-22, and amendment number 21 to 49 CFR Part 199, which was inadvertently omitted from a previous TRRC rule update.

The proposed amendments in §8.201(a) correct a typographical error; in subsection (b)(1) and (2) change the calendar year from 2003 to 2004 and the deadline by which the annual pipeline safety program fee is to be filed from March 15, 2004, to March 15, 2005; and in subsection (b)(3)(E) add wording that state agencies, as defined in Texas Utilities Code, §101.003, shall not be billed this fee. The fee remains at $0.37.

The proposed amendment in §8.210(a)(4)(A) corrects an internal citation.