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United States Department of Transportation
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) will have a Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee, also known as Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC), meeting from November 27 to December 1, 2023.
PHMSA is preparing the GPAC meeting to discuss the proposed rules (NPRMs) titled: "Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair," and "Class Location Change Requirements."
Summary
The purpose of the 2-day R&D Forum is for public, government, and industry pipeline stakeholders to identify technology and knowledge gaps within certain topic areas. PHMSA then incorporates these areas into our research solicitations. This forum will provide PHMSA leadership and staff with an opportunity to generate a national research agenda and discuss key industry and government challenges with pipeline industry stakeholders. By fostering the exchange of essential information, this discussion will help to improve pipeline safety and protect the environment.
The Pipeline R&D Forum, is a two-day public meeting, including a general Session and five concurrently running working group sessions. The agenda and additional information on the forum will be published on a dedicated meeting web page.
The purpose of the two-day CO2 Public Meeting is to inform rulemaking decisions, by discussing key topics such as public awareness, emergency response and effective communication with emergency responders and the public, dispersion modeling, safety measures to address other constituents besides CO2 in CO2 Pipelines, leak detection and reporting, and Geohazards. The CO2 meeting will be webcast for those who cannot attend in person.
PHMSA will host a two-day Safety of Underground Natural Gas Storage (UNGS) Public Meeting and Forum in May in Broomfield, Colorado. The Agency is hosting this informational meeting as part of its core mission to improve safety through better communications between PHMSA, the public, and the regulated community. PHMSA intends to answer questions, address concerns, and provide an opportunity to speak with the regulated community.
The meeting will provide a forum for discussion of multiple topics related to UNGS, including: drivers for UNGS regulation, state partners, Interim Final Rule (IFR) to Final Rule (FR) changes, UNGS inspection processes, frequently asked questions (FAQs), jurisdictional coverage, incorporation by reference (IBR) of American Petroleum Institutes'(API) Recommended Practice (RP) 1171 and RP1170, general enforcement processes, common operator challenges, well annulus monitoring and exceedances, surface and subsurface safety valves (SSVs and SSSVs, respectively), best practices, and lessons learned from incidents.
