Document ID: PHMSA-RSPA-2000-8453-0026
Agency: phmsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Pipeline Safety; Request for Special Permit: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Posted Date: 2020-03-27T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 60 (Friday, March 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17377-17378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-06377]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-RSPA-2000-8453]

Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Tennessee Gas 
Pipeline Company

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comment on a 
request from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company to renew a previously 
issued special permit. The special permit renewal request is seeking 
continued 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 
renewal request.

DATES: Submit any comments regarding this special permit request by 
April 27, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Comments should reference the docket number for the specific 
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 (2) 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 actually treated as private by its owner. Under the 
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 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 actually 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 Register 
(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,

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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 Kay McIver, 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: Ms. Kay McIver by telephone at 202-366-0113, or by email 
at kay.mciver@dot.gov.
    Technical: Mr. Steve Nanney by telephone at 713-272-2855, or by 
email at steve.nanney@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit renewal 
request from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP), owned by Kinder 
Morgan Inc., to continue its pipeline operation as defined in the 
special permit renewal issued on May 15, 2015. An additional 200 feet 
of pipeline, where the Class location had changed from Class 1 to 3, 
was added to the special permit segment 3 on March 28, 2017. The 
present special permit term is through May 15, 2020. TGP's special 
permit renewal request of November 12, 2019, seeks to waive compliance 
from the requirements of 49 CFR 192.611, ``Change in class location: 
Confirmation or revision of maximum allowable operating pressure''. 
This special permit renewal is being requested in lieu of pipe 
replacement or pressure reduction for four (4) special permit segments 
totaling 37,731 feet of either 30-inch diameter Line 800-1, 30-inch 
diameter Line 500-1, 36-inch diameter Line 500-2, or 36-inch diameter 
Line 500-3 located in Dickson and Hickman Counties, Tennessee. The 
special permit renewal will allow the continued operation of the 
original Class 1 pipe in the Class 3 locations.
    The TGP Line 800-1, Line 500-1, Line 500-2, and Line 500-3 have a 
maximum allowable operating pressure of 936 pounds per square inch 
gauge in the special permit segments.
    The special permit renewal request, existing special permit with 
conditions, and environmental assessment (EA) for the TGP is available 
for review and public comment in the Docket No. PHMSA-RSPA-2000-8453. 
We invite interested persons to review and submit comments on the 
special permit renewal request and EA in the docket. Please include any 
comments on potential safety and environmental impacts that may result 
if the special permit renewal is granted. Comments may include relevant 
data.
    Before issuing a decision on the special permit renewal request, 
PHMSA will evaluate all comments received on or before the comment 
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 we receive 
in making our decision to grant or deny this special permit renewal 
request.

    Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 
1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2020-06377 Filed 3-26-20; 8:45 am]
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