Regulatory Submissions

In the October 26 Federal Register, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced it will conduct a one-day National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) operator technical workshop on November 18 at a Washington, D.C., area hotel. The notice also announced that the comment period for the 60-day information collection published on August 27 is extended until November 25 in order to conduct this workshop that will provide PHMSA with important information as it prepares to improve the NPMS submission process to accept additional data. APGA filed written comments on the August 27 notice commending PHMSA for addressing our concerns about the cost of requiring operators to submit data with five-foot accuracy. Transmission pipeline operators had commented that this level of accuracy would be very expensive to achieve and our comments questioned the value of such accuracy to PHMSA. A copy of APGA’s comments can be found here.

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