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Pipeline Safety Standards Incorporated Into Federal Regula7ons Carl Weimer Execu7ve Director h@p://www.pstrust.org

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Pipeline  Safety  Standards  Incorporated  Into  Federal  Regula7ons  

Carl  Weimer  Execu7ve  Director  

h@p://www.pstrust.org  

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What’s  The  Big  Deal?  •  Once  standards  are  incorporated  into  the  regula7ons  they  become  part  of  the  law  

 

•  Currently  the  actual  standards  are  not  included  in  the  Code  of  Federal  Regula7ons  

 

•  To  see  what  the  law  requires  you  have  to  purchase  the  standards  from  the  groups  that  draL  them  

 

•  OLen  the  groups  that  draL  the  standards  are  made  up  primarily  of  industry  personnel  crea7ng  the  appearance  of  a  conflict  of  interest.  

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Why  Has  This  Become  An  Issue  Now?  

LIMITATION  ON  INCORPORATION  OF  DOCUMENTS  BY  REFERENCE.  

 

Beginning  1  year  aLer  the  date  of  enactment  of  this  subsec7on,  the  Secretary  may  not  issue  guidance  or  a  regula7on  pursuant  to  this  chapter  that  incorporates  by  reference  any  documents  or  por7ons  thereof  unless  the  documents  or  por7ons  thereof  are  made  available  to  the  public,  free  of  charge,  on  an  Internet  Website.  

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Why  does  the  public  (including  local  governments)  care  about  access  to  incorporated  pipeline  standards?  

How  Else  Would  They  Know  What  The  Law  Says?    

       Examples:            •    Integrity  Management            •    Gathering  Lines            •    Public  Awareness  Info            •    Leak  Detec7on  

 

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San  Bruno,  California  -­‐  2010  

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Gas  Transmission  Pipeline  Integrity  Management      §  192.907      What  must  an  operator  do  to  implement  this  subpart?  

b)  Implementa)on  Standards.    …an  operator  must  follow  the  requirements  of  this  subpart  and  of  ASME/ANSI  B31.8S    

§  192.923      How  is  direct  assessment  used  and  for  what  threats?  

(b)  Primary  method.  An  operator  using  direct  assessment  as  a  primary  assessment  method  must  have  a  plan  that  complies  with  the  requirements  in—  

(1)  ASME/ANSI  B31.8S  ,  sec7on  6.4;  NACE  SP0502-­‐2008  

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Massive  expansion  of  gathering  line  systems  in  many  parts  of  the  country  

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§  192.8      How  are  onshore  gathering  lines  and  regulated  onshore  gathering  lines  determined?  (a) An  operator  must  use  API  RP  80  to  determine  

if  an  onshore  pipeline  (or  part  of  a  connected  series  of  pipelines)  is  an  onshore  gathering  line.    

Produc7on  lines  are  unregulated  and  gathering  lines  are  less  regulated  than  transmission  lines  

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§  195.444      CPM  leak  detecNon.  Each  computa7onal  pipeline  monitoring  (CPM)  leak  detec7on  system  installed  on  a  hazardous  liquid  pipeline  transpor7ng  liquid  in  single  phase  (without  gas  in  the  liquid)  must  comply  with  API  1130  in  opera7ng,  maintaining,  tes7ng,  record  keeping,  and  dispatcher  training  of  the  system.    

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§  192.616      Public  awareness.              &  §  195.440      Public  awareness.  

each  pipeline  operator  must  develop  and  implement  a  wri@en  con7nuing  public  educa7on  program  that  follows  the  guidance  provided  in  the  American  Petroleum  Ins7tute’s  (API)  Recommended  Prac7ce    (RP)  1162  

 

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Why  it  is  important  that  the  public  be  given  free  and  easy  access  to  standards  

•  Because  they  are  part  of  the  federal  laws    

•  Because  they  are  some7mes  created  by  groups  with  poten7al  conflicts  of  interest  to  the  public  interest  

 

•  Because  the  industry  consensus  based  standards  process  may  not  lead  to  the  best  standards  

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Because  they  are  part  of  the  federal  laws  

 

Extent  of  Problem  

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Because  they  are  created  by  some  groups  with  poten7al  conflicts  of  interest  to  the  public  interest  

 AGA  –  “Focuses  on  the  advocacy  of  natural  gas  issues  that  are  priori7es  for  the  membership  and  that  are  achievable  in  a  cost-­‐effec7ve  way.”  “Delivers  measurable  value  to  AGA  members.”    

PRCI  –  “PRCI  is  a  community  of  the  world’s  leading  pipeline  companies,  and  the  vendors,  service  providers,  equipment  manufacturers,  and  other  organiza7ons  suppor7ng  our  industry.”      

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API  –  “We  speak  for  the  oil  and  natural  gas  industry  to  the  public,  Congress  and  the  Execu7ve  Branch,  state  governments  and  the  media.  We  nego7ate  with  regulatory  agencies,  represent  the  industry  in  legal  proceedings,  par7cipate  in  coali7ons  and  work  in  partnership  with  other  associa7ons  to  achieve  our  members’  public  policy  goals.”    

PPI  –  “PPI  members  share  a  common  interest  in  broadening  awareness  and  crea7ng  opportuni7es  that  expand  market  share  and  extend  the  use  of  plas7cs  pipe  in  all  its  many  applica7ons.”                      “the  mission  of  The  Plas7cs  Pipe  Ins7tute  is  to  make  plas7cs  the  material  of  choice  for  all  piping  applica7ons.”      

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The  consensus  based  standards  process  may  not  lead  to  the  best  standards  

 

Without  all  stakeholders  a  consensus  based  process  “does  not  lead  to  the  best  standard  but  to  the  best  standard  everyone  will  agree  to.”      

In  other  words  the  lowest  common  denominator  

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Possible  solu7ons  for  implementa7on  of  the  Congressional  mandate  

•    API  Model    •    PHMSA  could  develop  it’s  own  standards    •    PHMSA  could  pay  SDOs  to  develop  standards  for  them.  

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Ways  to  poten7ally  pay  for  changes  to  standard  access  

•  Increase  user  fees  to  cover  costs    

•  Industry  cover  costs  from  savings  they  get  from  use  of  such  standards      The  Benefits  of  Consensus  Standards  –  A  Pipeline  Case  Study  

www.p-­‐pic.com/files/conferencereports/IPC_paper_benefits.pdf    

“The  7mely  publica7on  of  B31.8S  is  expected  to  save  the  industry  $4.2  Billion  over  a  20  year  period.”