Document ID: PHMSA-2022-0167-0007
Agency: phmsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Pipeline Safety; Special Permit: East Tennessee Natural Gas Transmission, LLC
Posted Date: 2023-01-05T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 3 (Thursday, January 5, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 909-910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-28653]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2022-0167]

Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; East Tennessee 
Natural Gas Transmission, LLC

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on 
a request for special permit received from East Tennessee Natural Gas 
Transmission, LLC (ETNG). The special permit request is seeking 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 request.

DATES: Submit any comments regarding this special permit request by 
February 6, 2023.

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

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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 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 [email protected].
    Technical: Mr. Steve Nanney by telephone at 713-272-2855, or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from 
ETNG, owned and operated by Enbridge Inc., seeking a waiver from the 
requirements of 49 CFR 192.53(c), 192.121, 192.144, 192.149, 192.150, 
192.619(a), 192.624, 192.710, and 192.714, for the use of composite 
pipe (Smartpipe[supreg]) and fittings to replace approximately 0.64 
miles of an interstate gas transmission pipeline located in a Class 3 
location in Roanoke County, Virginia. Smartpipe[supreg] is a flexible 
reinforced thermoplastic pipe that is not authorized by 49 CFR part 
192. ETNG proposes to insert the Smartpipe[supreg], 6-inch inside 
diameter and 7.6-inch outside diameter, into the existing 8.625-inch 
outside diameter steel pipeline, known as ETNG's Line No. 3320A-100 
Pipeline. ETNG's request proposes the pipe pulling tensile force would 
be limited to 40,000 pounds during installation of the 
Smartpipe[supreg], which is 44 percent of the Smartpipe[supreg] rating 
of 90,000 pounds. The request also proposes that the Line No. 3320A-100 
Pipeline would have a maximum allowable operating pressure of 813 
pounds per square inch gauge after installation of the 
Smartpipe[supreg]. The existing Line No. 3320A-100 Pipeline is 
externally coated with coal tar enamel.
    The special permit request, proposed special permit with 
conditions, and draft environmental assessment (DEA) for the ETNG Line 
No. 3320A-100 Pipeline are available for review and public comment in 
the Docket No. PHMSA-2022-0167. PHMSA invites interested persons to 
review and submit comments on the special permit request, proposed 
special permit with conditions, and DEA in the docket. Please include 
any comments on potential safety and environmental impacts that may 
result if the special permit is granted. Comments may include relevant 
data.
    Before issuing a decision on the special permit requests, 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 it receives in making its 
decision to grant or deny this request.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 28, 2022, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2022-28653 Filed 1-4-23; 8:45 am]
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