[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50692-50693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-17690]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0201]


Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Columbia Gulf 
Transmission, LLC

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA); 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on 
a request for special permit received from Columbia Gulf Transmission, 
LLC (CGT). The special permit request is seeking relief from compliance 
with certain requirements of 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 
September 16, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Comments should reference the docket number for this 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

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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 Regulations (CFR) 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, 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 request on 
June 22, 2022, from CGT, a subsidiary of TC Energy, Inc., seeking a 
waiver for two (2) pipeline segments 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. The requested 
pipeline segments are proposed to be added to special permit Docket 
Number PHMSA-2019-0201, due to the pipeline segments being located 
within the inspection areas of this existing special permit.
    This special permit is being requested in lieu of pipe replacement, 
pressure reduction, or new pressure tests for a Class 1 to 3 location 
change on two (2) gas transmission pipeline segments totaling 3,806.00 
feet (approximately 0.721 miles). These pipeline segments, which have 
changed from a Class 1 to a Class 3 location, are as follows:

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                                                                                                       Maximum
                                                                                                      allowable
                                                  Outside                                             operating
  New special permit segment    County/parish,    diameter     Line name       Length       Year       pressure
                                     state        (inches)                     (feet)    installed   (pounds per
                                                                                                     square inch
                                                                                                        gauge)
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1............................  Vermillion, LA..         24  EL 200.........     953.00         1954          973
2............................  Rowan, KY.......         30  ML 100.........   2,853.00         1954          935
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    The special permit request, proposed special permit with 
conditions, and draft environmental assessment (DEA) for the above 
listed CGT pipeline segments are available for review and public 
comments in Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0201. 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 on August 11, 2022, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2022-17690 Filed 8-16-22; 8:45 am]
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