Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, transportation, incorporation by reference, business operations, natural gas, pipeline safety, petroleum, regulatory updates, carbon dioxide, api standard

🚧Pipeline Safety Standards Update

This DFR amends PHMSA's regulations to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard API Spec 6D, Specification for Valves. This updated standard will maintain or improve public safety, prevent regulatory confusion, reduce compliance burdens on stakeholders, and satisfy a mandate in the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) of 1995.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulations, incorporation by reference, pipeline safety, petroleum, carbon dioxide, api rp 2026

🛢️Pipeline Safety Standards Update

This DFR amends PHMSA's regulations to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard API RP 2026, Safe Access/Egress Involving Floating Roofs of Storage Tanks in Petroleum Service. This updated standard will maintain or improve public safety, prevent regulatory confusion, reduce compliance burdens on stakeholders, and satisfy a mandate in the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) of 1995.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulations, incorporation by reference, natural gas, financial impact, pipeline safety, petroleum, carbon dioxide, astm standards

🛢️Pipeline Safety Regulation Update

This DFR amends PHMSA's regulations to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard ASTM A381/A381M-18, Standard Specification for Metal-Arc-Welded Carbon or High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel Pipe for Use with High-Pressure Transmission Systems. This updated standard will maintain or improve public safety, prevent regulatory confusion, reduce compliance burdens on stakeholders, and satisfy a mandate in the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) of 1995.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulation, transportation, incorporation by reference, hazardous materials, pipeline safety, petroleum, carbon dioxide

🚧Update on Pipeline Safety Standards

This DFR amends PHMSA's regulations to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard API STD 620, Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low-Pressure Storage Tanks. This updated standard will maintain or improve public safety, prevent regulatory confusion, reduce compliance burdens on stakeholders, and satisfy a mandate in the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) of 1995.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulations, transportation, incorporation by reference, natural gas, hazardous materials, pipeline safety, petroleum, carbon dioxide, astm standards

🔧Pipeline Safety Standards Update

This DFR amends PHMSA's regulations to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard ASTM A53/A53M, Standard Specification for Pipe, Steel, Black and Hot-Dipped, Zinc-Coated, Welded and Seamless. This updated standard will maintain or improve public safety, prevent regulatory confusion, reduce compliance burdens on stakeholders, and satisfy a mandate in the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) of 1995.

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Rule 20 May 2025 pipeline safety, environmental policy, regulatory change, petroleum, gulf of america, transportation, natural gas, carbon dioxide

🌊Editorial Change

As directed by the Executive order of January 20, 2025, "Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness," PHMSA is amending its regulations to change the name of the body of water known previously as the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America."

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