G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.7  
 
5 May 2022  
(22-3532) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  5 May 2022, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of the United States of America . 
 
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Title:  Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas Transmission and Gathering Pipelines  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:   
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[X] Notified measure published - date: 4 May 2022  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 16 May 2022  
[X] Text of final measure available from1:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-11-15/html/202 1-24240.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-11-15/pdf/2021 -24240.pdf  
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[ ] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[ ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[X] Other:  
Final rule; response to petition for reconsideration; enforcement discretion; technical 
corrections  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-05-04/html/2022 -09474.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-05-04/pdf/2022 -09474.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/USA/22_3256_00_e.pdf  
 
Description:  TITLE: Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas Gathering Pipelines: Extension of Reporting 
Requirements, Regulation of Large, High -Pressure Lines, and Other Related Amendments: Response 
to a Petition for Reconsideration; Technical Corrections; Issuance  of Limited Enforcement Discretion  
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), Department of 
Transportation (DOT)  
ACTION: Final rule; response to petition for reconsideration; enforcement discretion; technical 
corrections  
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a pdf attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final /modified  measure and/or interpretive guidance can be obtained.  G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.7  
 
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  SUMMAR Y: PHMSA is alerting the public to its 1 April 2022, response denying a petition for 
reconsideration of the final rule  titled "Safety of Gas Gathering Pipelines: Extensio n of Reporting 
Requirements, Regulation of Large, High -Pressure Lines, and Other Related Amendments." This final 
rule also makes clarifications and two technical corrections to that rulemaking. Lastly, this final rule 
memorializes a limited enforcement dis cretion in connection with that rulemaking's amendment of 
the regulatory definition of "incidental gathering."  
DATES: This final rule is effective 16 May 2022. The limited enforcement discretion is effective 16 
May 2022.  
This final rule; response to petiti on for reconsideration; enforcement discretion; technical 
corrections, the final rule notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.6  and the notice of proposed 
rulemaking notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1117 , the proposed rule; extension of comment period notified 
as G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.1 , the final rule notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.2  and the final rule; 
petition for reconsideration notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.4  are identified by Docket Number 
PHMSA -2011-0023. The Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/PHMSA -2011-0023/document  and provides access to primary 
and supporting documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible from 
Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number.  
The actions notified in G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.3  and G/TBT/N/USA/1117/Add.5  are identified by 
Docket Number PHMSA -2019-0225. The Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/PHMSA -2019-0225/document  and provides access to primary 
and supporting documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible from 
Regulations. gov by searching the Docket Number.  
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