2016-11119: Pipeline Safety: Meeting of the Gas Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee and the Liquid Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee

Summary

This notice announces a public meeting of the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC), also known as the Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee, and the Liquid Pipeline Advisory Committee (LPAC), also known as the Technical Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards Committee. The GPAC will meet to discuss a proposed rulemaking to address regulatory requirements involving plastic piping systems used in gas services and both committees will meet jointly to discuss a proposed rulemaking to strengthen the federal pipeline safety regulations and to address sections 9 (accident and incident reporting) and 13 (cost recovery for design-review work) of the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 (2011 Act). Both committees will also be briefed on the "Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas Transmission and Gathering Pipelines" proposed rulemaking.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 5 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

• 49 CFR 190 Pipeline Safety Enforcement and Regulatory Procedures
• 49 CFR 191 Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Annual, Incident, and Other Reporting
• 49 CFR 192 Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline: Minimum Federal Safety Standards
• 49 CFR 195 Transportation of Hazardous Liquids by Pipeline
• 49 CFR 199 Drug and Alcohol Testing