[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 7388]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-02483]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0207]


Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Gulf South Pipeline 
Company, LP

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 from Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP 
(GSPC). 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 
March 9, 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, 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. Joshua Johnson by telephone at 816-329-3825, or by 
email at joshua.johnson@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA received a special permit request from 
the GSPC, a subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP, seeking a 
waiver from the requirements of 49 CFR 192.611, Change in class 
location: Confirmation or revision of maximum allowable operating 
pressure. The Class 1 to Class 3 location change occurred in May of 
2019. This special permit is being requested in lieu of pipe 
replacement or pressure reduction for one (1) 42-inch diameter pipe 
special permit segment of 214 feet in length on the Index 817 Pipeline 
located in Madison Parish, Louisiana. The proposed special permit will 
allow operation of the original Class 1 pipe in the Class 3 location.
    The Index 817 Pipeline is a 240-mile pipeline on the GSPC system 
that begins at a connection on the Index 816 Pipeline near Keatchie, 
Louisiana. The Index 817 Pipeline runs east from Keatchie, Louisiana to 
the GSPC Harrisville Compressor Station in Mississippi, where it 
connects to the GSPC Index 818 Pipeline. The Index 817 Pipeline was 
installed in 2007. The maximum allowable operating pressure for the 
Index 817 Pipeline in the proposed special permit segment is 1,456 
pounds per square inch gauge.
    The special permit request, proposed special permit with 
conditions, and Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the Index 817 
Pipeline segment are available for review and public comment in Docket 
No. PHMSA-2019-0207. We invite 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.
    Before issuing a decision on the special permit 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 request.

    Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 
1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2020-02483 Filed 2-6-20; 8:45 am]
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