[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72152-72153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19816]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2023-0126]


Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Gulf South Pipeline 
Company, LLC

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on 
a request for a special permit received from the Gulf South Pipeline 
Company, LLC (GSPC) seeking relief from compliance with certain 
requirements in the federal pipeline safety regulations (PSR). 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 
October 4, 2024.

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 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,

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that you 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. Joshua Johnson by telephone at 816-308-6074, or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request on 
November 15, 2023, from GSPC, a subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipelines, 
L.P., 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, 
pressure reduction, or new pressure tests for a Class 1 to 3 location 
change on two (2) gas transmission pipeline segments totaling 12,052 
feet (approximately 2.28 miles).\1\ These pipeline segments, which have 
changed from a Class 1 to a Class 3 location, are as follows:

                                                                 Special Permit Segments
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                  Outside                                   Start       End
 Special permit  diameter                         Length    survey     survey                           Number      Year                           MAOP
  segment No.                   Line  name        (feet)   station    station       County, state     dwellings  installed       Seam type        (psig)
                 (inches)                                    (SS)       (SS)
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1..............        16  Index 819-10........    4,580     585+52     631+32  Grayson, TX.........          0       2014  HF-ERW.............    1,350
2..............        16  Index 819-10........    7,472     728+40     803+12  Grayson, TX.........         31       2014  HF-ERW, SMLS.......    1,350
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    The special permit request, proposed special permit with 
conditions, and draft environmental assessment (DEA) for the GSPC 
pipeline segments are available for review and public comments in 
Docket Number PHMSA 2023-0126. PHMSA invites interested persons to 
review and submit comments in the docket on the special permit request 
and DEA. Please submit comments on any potential safety, environmental, 
and other relevant considerations implicated by the special permit 
request. 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.
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    \1\ GSPC's November 15, 2023, application request explained it 
was seeking a special permit for 16.6 total miles of pipeline where 
the class location has changed from Class 1 to Class 3. However, the 
16.6 miles encompasses proposed special permit inspection areas, 
versus the approximately 2.28 miles of special permit segments as 
described in the proposed special permit conditions document in this 
Docket No. PHMSA-2023-0126.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on August 22, 2024, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2024-19816 Filed 9-3-24; 8:45 am]
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