[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 217 (Thursday, November 13, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50948-50949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19870]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2017-0161]
Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Tennessee Gas
Pipeline Company, LLC (TGP)
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA);
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on
a request for an extension to a special permit segment to be
incorporated into special permit PHMSA-2017-0161 submitted by Tennessee
Gas Pipeline Company, LLC (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc.
TGP is seeking relief from compliance with certain requirements in the
Federal pipeline safety regulations. PHMSA has proposed conditions to
ensure that the special permit is not inconsistent with pipeline
safety. 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
December 15, 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
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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 (U.S.C.) Sec. 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) 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: Lee Cooper by telephone at 202-913-3171, or by email at
[email protected].
Technical: Gabrielle St. Pierre by telephone at 907-202-0029, or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 20, 2025, PHMSA received a special
permit request from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC (TGP), a
subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc., seeking an extension to a special
permit segment to be incorporated into special permit PHMSA-2017-0161.
The segment extension request is a part of the active permit's Special
Permit Inspection Area 1. Special permit PHMSA-2017-0161 allows TGP to
deviate from the Federal pipeline safety regulations in 49 CFR
192.611(a) 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-2017-0161 is active and was granted on August
11, 2022 and is effective until August 11, 2032 for three special
permit segments, which include 5,545 feet (approximately 1.05 miles) of
the TGP natural gas transmission pipeline system located in Kanawha
County, West Virginia. The segment extension has been requested for 673
feet (approximately 0.13 miles). If granted, the special permit
segments would total 6,218 feet (approximately 1.18 miles).
The special permit segments, including the requested modifications,
are detailed in updated Attachment A--Segment Integrity Information.
Proposed modifications due to this request are as follows:
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Maximum
allowable
Outside operating
SPS No. Status County, State diameter Line name Length (feet) Year pressure
(inches) installed (pounds per
square inch
gauge)
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452............................. Active Segment.... Kanawha, WV....... 20 100-1 1,177 1984 936
Extension......... Kanawha, WV....... 20 100-1 1,850 1984 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 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.).
No further environmental assessment is required for this proposed
extension.
TGP's request for an extension to a special permit segment, active
special permit with conditions, and associated environmental document
are available for review and public comment in Docket No. PHMSA-2017-
0161. PHMSA invites interested persons to review and submit comments in
the docket on this request for modification of the special permit.
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 comment 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 November 7, 2025, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Linda Daugherty,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
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