Document ID: PHMSA-2021-0018-0004
Agency: phmsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Pipeline Safety; Request for Special Permit: Tejas Pipeline, LLC
Posted Date: 2021-05-24T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 98 (Monday, May 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27959-27960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10864]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2021-0018]

Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Tejas Pipeline, 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 the Tejas Pipeline, LLC 
(Tejas). 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 
June 23, 2021.

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 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 
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

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``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 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 request from 
Tejas, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc., seeking a waiver from the 
requirements of 49 CFR 192.611(a) and (d), Change in class location and 
Confirmation or revision of maximum allowable operating pressure; and 
49 CFR 192.619(a), Maximum allowable operating pressure: Steel or 
plastic pipelines. This special permit is being requested in lieu of 
pipe replacement, pressure testing, or pressure reduction for three (3) 
pipeline segments totaling 717 feet (approximately 0.136 miles) of 30-
inch and 36-inch diameter pipe on the Mustang Mainline 1 Pipeline 
located in Nueces County, Texas, and 882 feet (approximately 0.167 
miles) of 30-inch diameter pipe on the King Ranch to Lovell Pipeline 
located in Harris County, Texas. The proposed special permit will allow 
operation of the original Class 1 or Class 2 pipe in the Class 3 
locations.
    The proposed special permit segments on the Mustang Mainline 1 
Pipeline have a maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) of 915 
pounds per square inch gauge (psig) and were constructed in 1959 and 
1964. The proposed special permit segment on the King Ranch to Lovell 
Pipeline has a MAOP of 715 psig and was constructed in 1958.
    The special permit request, proposed special permit with 
conditions, and Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the Tejas 
Mustang Mainline 1 and King Ranch to Lovell Pipelines are available for 
review and public comments in Docket No. PHMSA-2021-0018. PHMSA invites 
interested persons to review and submit comments on the special permit 
request 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 request, PHMSA will 
evaluate all comments received on or before the comments 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 special permit request.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April, 2021, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2021-10864 Filed 5-21-21; 8:45 am]
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