[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 60 (Friday, March 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17377-17378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-06377]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-RSPA-2000-8453]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Tennessee Gas
Pipeline Company
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comment on a
request from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company to renew a previously
issued special permit. The special permit renewal request is seeking
continued 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
renewal request.
DATES: Submit any comments regarding this special permit request by
April 27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Comments should reference the docket number for the specific
special permit request and may be submitted in the following ways:
E-Gov Website: http://www.Regulations.gov. This site
allows the public to enter comments on any Federal Register notice
issued by any agency.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Mail: Docket Management System: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: Docket Management System: U.S. Department
of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Instructions: You should identify the docket number for the special
permit request you are commenting on at the beginning of your comments.
If you submit your comments by mail, please submit two (2) copies. To
receive confirmation that PHMSA has received your comments, please
include a self-addressed stamped postcard. Internet users may submit
comments at http://www.Regulations.gov.
Note: There is a privacy statement published on http://www.Regulations.gov. Comments, including any personal information
provided, are posted without changes or edits to http://www.Regulations.gov.
Confidential Business Information: Confidential Business
Information (CBI) is commercial or financial information that is both
customarily and actually treated as private by its owner. Under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from
public disclosure. If your comments responsive to this notice contain
commercial or financial information that is customarily treated as
private, that you actually treat as private, and that is relevant or
responsive to this notice, it is important that you clearly designate
the submitted comments as CBI. Pursuant to 49 Code of Federal Register
(CFR) Sec. 190.343, you may ask PHMSA to give confidential treatment
to information you give to the agency by taking the following steps:
(1) Mark each page of the original document submission containing CBI
as ``Confidential''; (2) send PHMSA, along with the original document,
a second copy of the original document with the CBI deleted; and (3)
explain why the information you are submitting is CBI. Unless you are
notified otherwise,
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PHMSA will treat such marked submissions as confidential under the
FOIA, and they will not be placed in the public docket of this notice.
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 email
at [email protected].
Technical: Mr. Steve Nanney by telephone at 713-272-2855, or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit renewal
request from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP), owned by Kinder
Morgan Inc., to continue its pipeline operation as defined in the
special permit renewal issued on May 15, 2015. An additional 200 feet
of pipeline, where the Class location had changed from Class 1 to 3,
was added to the special permit segment 3 on March 28, 2017. The
present special permit term is through May 15, 2020. TGP's special
permit renewal request of November 12, 2019, seeks to waive compliance
from the requirements of 49 CFR 192.611, ``Change in class location:
Confirmation or revision of maximum allowable operating pressure''.
This special permit renewal is being requested in lieu of pipe
replacement or pressure reduction for four (4) special permit segments
totaling 37,731 feet of either 30-inch diameter Line 800-1, 30-inch
diameter Line 500-1, 36-inch diameter Line 500-2, or 36-inch diameter
Line 500-3 located in Dickson and Hickman Counties, Tennessee. The
special permit renewal will allow the continued operation of the
original Class 1 pipe in the Class 3 locations.
The TGP Line 800-1, Line 500-1, Line 500-2, and Line 500-3 have a
maximum allowable operating pressure of 936 pounds per square inch
gauge in the special permit segments.
The special permit renewal request, existing special permit with
conditions, and environmental assessment (EA) for the TGP is available
for review and public comment in the Docket No. PHMSA-RSPA-2000-8453.
We invite interested persons to review and submit comments on the
special permit renewal request and EA in the docket. Please include any
comments on potential safety and environmental impacts that may result
if the special permit renewal is granted. Comments may include relevant
data.
Before issuing a decision on the special permit renewal request,
PHMSA will evaluate all comments received on or before the comment
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 we receive
in making our decision to grant or deny this special permit renewal
request.
Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR
1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2020-06377 Filed 3-26-20; 8:45 am]
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