[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 195 (Friday, October 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48237-48238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19529]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2023-0001]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Tennessee Gas
Pipeline, LLC (TGP)
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA);
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On June 26, 2025, PHMSA published a notice to solicit public
comment on a request for a special permit from Tennessee Gas Pipeline,
LLC (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. The comment period
closed on July 28, 2025. PHMSA is issuing this notice to extend the
comment period for an additional 15 days to give the public more time
to review the proposed special permit action and updated documents. At
the conclusion of the 15-day extension 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 27, 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 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) 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 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 202-768-4354, or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from
Tennessee Gas Pipeline, LLC (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc.,
on September 26, 2024, seeking the addition of a special permit segment
extension to be incorporated into special permit PHMSA-2023-0001. This
special permit segment extension request is a part of the active
permit's special permit inspection area. Special permit PHMSA-2023-0001
allows TGP to deviate from the Federal pipeline safety regulations in
49 CFR 192.611(a), (d), and 192.619(a), where a gas transmission
pipeline segment has undergone a change from a Class 1 to a Class 3
location.
Special permit PHMSA-2023-0001 is active and was granted on July
31, 2023, and is effective until July 31, 2033, for one special permit
segment, which included 6,685 feet (approximately 1.266 miles) of the
TGP natural gas transmission pipeline system located in the State of
Tennessee. The special permit segment extension is requested for an
additional 502 feet (approximately 0.095 miles). If granted, the
special permit segment would total 7,187 feet (approximately 1.361
miles).
The active special permit segment and requested extension, is as
follows:
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Maximum
allowable
Outside operating
SPS No. Status County, state diameter Line name Length Year pressure
(inches) (feet) installed (pounds per
square inch
gauge)
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726.......................... Active Segment............. Dickson, TN................ 36 500-3 6,685 1973 936
Extension.................. Dickson, TN................ 36 500-3 502 1973 936
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Upon receipt of this request, PHMSA reviewed the final
environmental assessment (FEA) and finds that the expansion of the
proposed special permit would not result in significant impacts to the
human environment. Furthermore, the existing FEA and findings of no
significant impact remain adequate, pursuant to the NEPA of 1969, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). No further environmental assessment
is required for this proposal.
TGP's special permit segment extension request, active special
permit with conditions, and FEA are available for review and public
comment in Docket No. PHMSA-2023-0001. PHMSA invites interested persons
to review and submit comments in the docket on the special permit
segment extension 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.
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 October 1, 2025, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Linda Daugherty,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2025-19529 Filed 10-9-25; 8:45 am]
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