[Notices] [Pages 7182-7183]
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0151]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, LLC
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA); DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on a request for special permit received from the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, LLC (NGPL). The special permit request is seeking relief from compliance with certain requirements in the Federal pipeline safety regulations. At the conclusion of the 30-day comment period, PHMSA will review the comments received from this notice as part of its evaluation to grant or deny the special permit request.
DATES: Submit any comments regarding this special permit request by February 25.
ADDRESSES: Comments should reference the docket number for this special permit request and may be submitted in the following ways:
Submissions containing CBI should be sent to Kay McIver, DOT, PHMSA-PHP-80, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001. Any commentary PHMSA receives that is not specifically designated as CBI will be placed in the public docket for this matter.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
General: Ms. Kay McIver by telephone at 202-366-0113, or by e-mail at kay.mciver@dot.gov.
Technical: Mr. Steve Nanney by telephone at 713-272-2855, or by e-mail at steve.nanney@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from NGPL, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc., seeking a waiver from the requirements of 49 CFR § 192.611(a) and (d): Change in class location: Confirmation or revision of maximum allowable operating pressure, and 49 CFR § 192.619(a): Maximum allowable operating pressure: Steel or plastic pipelines. This special permit is being requested in lieu of pipe replacement or pressure reduction for 10 pipeline segments totaling 21,141 feet (approximately 4 miles) of 30-inch diameter pipe on the Gulf Coast Line #1 and the Gulf Coast Line #2 Pipelines, located in Polk County, Texas. The proposed special permit will allow operation of the original Class 1 pipe in the Class 3 locations.
The proposed special permit would allow NGPL to uprate the Gulf Coast Line #1 and Gulf Coast Line #2 Pipelines from a current 715 pounds per square inch gauge (psig) maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) to an 858 psig MAOP. The pipeline MAOP uprating is for a new NGPL 2021 contractual obligation to deliver 300,000 dekatherms per day of incremental natural gas volumes to the Cheniere Corpus Christi, Texas Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal.
The Gulf Coast Line #1 Pipeline was constructed between 1951 and 1973. The Gulf Coast Line #2 Pipeline was constructed between 1962 and 1982.
The special permit request, proposed special permit with conditions, and Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the NGPL Gulf Coast Lines #1 and #2 Pipelines are available for review and public comments in Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0151. PHMSA invites interested persons to review and submit comments on the special permit request and DEA in the docket. Please include any comments on potential safety and environmental impacts that may result if the special permit is granted. Comments may include relevant data.
Before issuing a decision on the special permit request, PHMSA will evaluate all comments received on or before the comments closing date. Comments received after the closing date will be evaluated, if it is possible to do so without incurring additional expense or delay. PHMSA will consider each relevant comment it receives in making its decision to grant or deny this special permit request.
Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR § 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2021-01654 Filed: 1/25/2021 8:45 am; Publication Date: 1/26/2021]
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