[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 160 (Thursday, August 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40886-40887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16025]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2020-0001]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit
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 two special permit segment extensions and one new special
permit segment submitted by Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC
(FGT), a subsidiary of Energy Transfer and Kinder Morgan, Inc. FGT 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
September 22, 2025.
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 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 United States
Code 552), CBI is exempt from public disclosure. If your comments
responsive to this notice contain commercial or financial information
that is customarily treated
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as private, 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) 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, PHMSA will treat such marked
submissions as confidential under FOIA, and they will not be placed in
the public docket of this notice. Submissions containing CBI should be
sent to Lee Cooper, 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: Mr. Lee Cooper by telephone at 202-913-3171, or by email
at [email protected].
Technical: Mr. Zaid Obeidi by telephone at 202-366-5267, or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from
FGT on March 18, 2025, seeking special permit segment extensions, and
seeking the addition of a new special permit segment to be incorporated
into special permit PHMSA-2020-0001.\1\ The new segment and extensions
requested are a part of the active permit's special permit inspection
area. Special permit PHMSA-2020-0001 allows FGT to deviate from the
Federal pipeline safety regulations in 49 CFR 192.611(a) and (d), and
192.619(a), where a gas transmission pipeline segment has undergone a
change from a Class 1 to a Class 3 location.
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\1\ Special permits PHMSA-2020-0001 and PHMSA-2023-0020 were
combined into special permit PHMSA-2020-0001. Florida Gas
Transmission Company, LLC first request was on December 18, 2019.
PHMSA original issuance date was on March 31, 2022, and it was
revised on June 24,2022. PHMSA received new segment request on March
24, 2023, and issued approval on August 22, 2023. The August 22,
2023, issuance letter indicated that Dockets PHMSA-2023-0020 and
PHMSA-2020-0001 were combined into a single docket at Docket PHMSA-
2020-0001.
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Special permit PHMSA-2020-0001 was granted on August 22, 2023 and
is effective until March 31, 2032 for six special permit segments,
which include 10,279 feet (approximately 1.947 miles) of the FGT
natural gas transmission pipeline system located in Lake, Orange, and
Osceola counties, Florida. FGT is requesting a new special permit
segment of 3,587 feet (approximately 0.679 miles) and special permit
segment extensions totaling 8,009 feet (approximately 1.517 miles). If
granted, the combined length of the requested expansion would total
11,596 feet (approximately 2.196 miles).
The active special permit segment, requested new special permit
segment, and requested extensions, are as follows:
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Maximum
allowable
operating
Outside pressure
SPS No. Status County, State diameter Line name Length Year (pounds
(inches) (feet) installed per
square
inch
gauge)
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187440.............................. Active Segment........ Osceola, FL........... 30 MLV 18-1 to C/S 19.... 285 1995 975
Extension............. Osceola, FL........... 30 MLV 18-1 to C/S 19.... 5,196 1995 975
202974.............................. Active Segment........ Osceola, FL........... 30 MLV 18-1 to C/S 19.... 4,451 1995 975
Extension............. Osceola, FL........... 30 MLV 18-1 to C/S 19.... 2,813 1995 975
228268.............................. New Segment........... Brevard, FL........... 26 Mainline Loop STA18- 3,587 1968 977
STA19.
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Upon receipt of this request, PHMSA reviewed the currently active
special permit's Final Environmental Assessment (FEA) and its findings.
In consideration of this, PHMSA finds that the existing FEA and Finding
of No Significant Impact remain adequate, pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.),
and the expansion of the proposed special permit would not result in
significant impacts to the human environment. No further environmental
assessment is required for this proposal.
FGT's new special permit segment and extensions request, active
special permit with conditions, and FEA are available for review and
public comment in Docket No. PHMSA-2020-0001. PHMSA invites interested
persons to review and submit comments in the docket on both the special
permit segment extension request and the new special permit segment
request. 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.
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 19, 2025 under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Linda Daugherty,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2025-16025 Filed 8-20-25; 8:45 am]
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