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  1. Updates to Pipeline Safety Rules – RSPA to PHMSA
  2. Integrity Management Services
  3. Oil and Gas Stormwater Discharge Permit – Extension
  4. Need help with the new Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) deadline?
  5. Who you gonna call? 8-1-1
  6. RCP Services Spotlight – Underwater Inspection Procedures and Interval Risk Modeling
  7. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  8. Liquids Integrity Management FAQ Update
  9. Need to Update Your Current Operator Qualification Program?
  10. Operator Qualification Update – OQSG User Group Meeting, Houston TX March 23rd-24th
  11. Are Your Response Plans Current?
  12. Gas Distribution Pipeline Integrity Meetings
  13. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  14. Texas LP-Gas: Proposed Rule Revisions
  15. RCP’s Fantastic 1-Page Version of New SPCC Regulation
  16. OPS Announces Liquid IMP Meeting, May 17-18
  17. Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Leak Detection
  18. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  19. OPS Issues new FAQ’s for Gas IMP
  20. Need A Security Plan or Audit?
  21. Texas Railroad Commission & Louisiana Department of Natural Resources sign MOU
  22. API/AOPL Issue IMP Update to US Congress
  23. Acquiring a pipeline?

Updates to Pipeline Safety Rules – RSPA to PHMSA

In accordance with the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act, which reorganized the Department’s pipeline and hazardous materials safety programs into the new Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), all references to the former Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) in 49 CFR parts 190 through 199 have been changed effective March 8, 2005 to reflect the creation of PHMSA. The revisions also update the Office of Pipeline Safety’s internet and mailing addresses, docket procedures, titles, section numbers, penalty considerations and cap adjustments, terminology, and other changes conforming part 190 with the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002. The amendments made by this rule reflect the changed organizational posture of the agency and update the part 190 enforcement procedures to reflect current public law. This rule does not impose any new operating requirements on pipeline owners and operators.