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<v Deana>Welcome to the Railroad Commission</v>

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of Texas Pipeline Safety Rules webinar,

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on recent updates to 16 TAC 370 and Chapter 8.

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My name is Deana Cline,

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and I will be moderating today's session.

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If you have questions during today's webinar,

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please type them into the Q&amp;A section.

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We will kick off today's session with a presentation,

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on recent updates to 16 Texas Administrative code Chapter 8,

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by Stephanie Weidman.

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Stephanie, we are ready when you are.

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<v ->Good afternoon, my name is Stephanie Weidman,</v>

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and I'm the director of pipeline safety,

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and the oversight and safety division.

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I'll be going over a recent changes to our TAC Chapter 8,

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rules, let's go ahead and get started.

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If you'll bear with me for a second,

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I'm going to pull up the presentation.

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As I said, we're gonna be going over recent changes,

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to TAC Chapter 8.

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And these changes went into effect January 6th of this year.

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So just some general changes, we change natural gas to gas,

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and that was declared by the propane gas distribution,

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systems are also required to follow the Chapter 8.

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We also changed Pipeline Safety Division,

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to Pipeline Safety Department.

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And that is because the pipeline safety section,

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is now housed in the Oversight and Safety Division.

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Under 8.101 integrity management plans,

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we removed the requirement to get direct assess,

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the director approval, to use direct assessment.

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So operators electing to use direct assessment,

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as their assessment method,

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for pipelines required to be assessed under 8.101,

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no longer have to get approval from the director to use that

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we've somewhat mirrored, the federal regulations there.

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And we also removed outdated language in 8.101(e).

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That was mostly dates.

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What are the largest changes,

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I think that we made in the Chapter 8 amendments,

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was adding the new role, the new liquid,

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new and gathering line rule.

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It's a new rule under 8.110,

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and it applies to Class 1 and rural gathering lines.

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They're not already regulated

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under 49 CFR 192 and 195.

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So there's three general sections for this rule,

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safety requirements, reporting requirements,

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and investigation requirements.

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Under safety requirements,

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there's really just a generalized statement,

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that requires operators take appropriate action,

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using processes and technologies,

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that are technically feasible, reasonable,

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and practical to correct a hazardous condition,

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that creates a risk to public safety.

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Under the reporting requirements,

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we refer the operators for gas gathering pipelines,

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to comply with 8.2109(e) relating to reports,

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and for hazardous liquid pipelines,

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to follow a 8.301, 81 b and 82b relating to report.

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So that's essentially for,

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incidents that meet reportable criteria,

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for classical and gathering lines,

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it requires the operator to report them within one hour,

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confirm discovery on the hazardous liquid side,

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for incident or accidents that meet the reportable criteria.

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It requires the operator, a file a 30 day report,

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on the DOTC form.

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So we are pretty much married to the federal regulations.

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And then the last section, the investigation requirements,

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it's essentially just requires the operator,

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to cooperate with the commission during the investigation.

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So that's providing reasonable access to facilities, records

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and file any type of reports that are necessary,

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and are requested by the commission.

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Next, we made changes to 8.115,

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which is our new construction reports.

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We made quite a few changes to this section,

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for gas gathering transmission and hazardous liquid lines.

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We kept the requirement that requires a report 30 days prior

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for new construction of one mile or more of pipeline.

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And then we added in a requirement for 60 days,

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prior for 10 miles or greater of pipeline,

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that our new construction report is required,

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that mirrors the federal regulations.

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And we also added a new facility requirements,

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for breakout tanks.

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So any new breakout tank,

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is required to have a new construction report.

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We added this essentially,

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because we don't have a requirement,

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for breakout tanks at this time,

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and in Texas, we have quite a few tank farms,

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and we were finding that we'd show up to,

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a pipeline and see a tank farm.

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And it wasn't connected to that pipeline.

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There are, you know, 40 or 50 tanks out there,

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and we had no idea about.

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so essentially this was an order for the commission

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to find out about new construction,

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of these breakout tanks, get them in their system,

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but also be able to put eyes,

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on the construction aspect of things.

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The gas distribution, we have a requirement to file APS-48,

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for any new distribution system.

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So that's a new subdivision or any distribution system,

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that requires is going to require a new RRC system ID,

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and also file over PS-48 for any relocation, replacement

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or replacement greater than three miles.

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So this section gives the operator

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two ways to file this report.

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They can follow the report on the PS-48,

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30 days prior to construction,

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or you can provide the commission,

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a monthly report that reflects all known projects,

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to be completed in the following 12 months,

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all projects that are currently in construction,

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all projects completed since the prior monthly report,

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and the report should provide the status of each project,

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the city, the counting of each project,

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and the description of each project,

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and the estimated start and ending date.

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We also amended the PS-48 because of all of these changes.

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And that has been gone through conference,

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and is now on our website.

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We added a few changes and two 8.125,

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our waiver procedure.

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It clarifies it an operator request a waiver,

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before engaging in activities covered by the waiver.

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We also clarified references to the Hearings Division,

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which is essentially just in changes,

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during the approval process,

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once a waiver has been submitted.

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We made some changes to 8.206,

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under our risk-based leak survey program.

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We added an additional three months buffer,

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in which to comply,

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with each deadline prescribed with the rule.

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So essentially marrying the idea,

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with the federal regulations do as well.

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An example of this is anything that was required annually,

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or within a calendar year is now once each calendar year,

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not to exceed 15 months.

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For a five-year requirement,

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It's every five calendar years not to exceed 63 months.

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We brought this in, so an operator,

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has the ability to factor in weather,

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or other things out of their control,

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to make sure that the surveys are done in time,

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and around the same time each year.

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We made some changes to our 8.209 DIMP rule.

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Some of these changes implemented House Bill 866,

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of the 86 Legislative Session,

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which requires distribution operators to annually replace,

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8% of the pipeline segments or facilities,

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posing the greatest risk, previously it was 5%.

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And also replace any known cast iron pipelines,

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by December 31st, 2021.

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Other changes to this rule are just removing dates,

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that have passed.

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And 8.210 under reporting requirements.

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We implemented changes required under House Bill 864,

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of the 86th Legislative Session.

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It requires a telephonic report.

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We do at the earliest practical moment,

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but at the latest one hour following confirmed discovery,

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and it also requires the commission retain pipeline,

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incident reports perpetually.

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We also eliminated the requirement for operators,

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to submit written incident and annual reports,

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to the commission,

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but it does require the operators retain those records,

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and reports and provide them upon request.

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Under 8.225 plastic pipe requirements.

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We removed all prior wording and reporting requirements.

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So the PS-81 are no longer required,

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to be reported to commission or filed with the commission.

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We added wording here, that operator shall just retain,

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all records relating to classic pipe installation

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and accordance with the federal regulations,

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49 CFR Part 192,

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and provide such records to the commission upon request.

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Under 8.235 and 8.315 and for public awareness,

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we removed the requirement for operators,

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to file school proximity reports with the commission,

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and then instead require operators,

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to maintain records required under 8.235 and 8.315,

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and file them with the commission upon request.

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Under 8.240 discontinuance of service,

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we added in a section that is a new soft-close status.

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So essentially we are allowing an operator,

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when a discontinuance of service order is placed,

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to put an account in what we define as a soft-close status.

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And in this definition,

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it states that those set or accounts,

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shall have an automatic gas turnoff order executed.

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If the meter registers is 50 CCF or 5 MCF,

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or more of docu of gas,

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documented after, the soft-close reading,

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or 90 days after the customer's notification

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to discontinue gas service.

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We essentially implemented this because in Texas,

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almost every single large city has multiple a university,

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or multiple universities.

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And then, it helps for the mass turn on, turn off changes,

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in the middle of the summer,

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when the school year switches over.

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And so operators are now we can put some of these accounts

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in a soft-close status to avoid unnecessary,

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trips out to different residences.

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Under 8.301 reporting requirements.

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We clarified that the telephonic report,

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for reportable accidents involving crude oil,

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is due at the earliest practical moment,

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but at least one hour following confirmed discovery,

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of a pipeline accident.

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I also included some helpful links here,

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you can go into the proposed changes in the Texas Register.

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So our proposed changes will be released October 20, 2018.

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And then we adopted these in the Texas Register January,

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of 2020, and there's different links here.

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And these are just to the Texas register in those areas.

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And with that are there any questions?

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<v Deana>Yeah so far we have six questions.</v>

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The first one is under the commodities column.

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What is the difference from gathering,

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and full well substring gathering,

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is full well string gathering,

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considered from the well to the meter.

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I need to understand the both gas and liquids.

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And I think that question is probably best,

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and they might answer it during the presentations,

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for our POPS group and our permitting group.

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And it's possible to be answered during the presentation,

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but if one of those guys wants to hop in as well,

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we could answer it now.

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<v ->All right, we'll move on to the next question,</v>

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unless somebody comes to that one

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Sorry, Deana I did get a note, we can answer that.

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I think at the end of one of the presentations,

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from our permitting group,

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so we should get that one answered.

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<v Deana>Perfect.</v>

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Question two, when amending a T-4 Permit,

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can an amendment on a commodity types,

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be changed from liquid to gas?

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<v ->That is another question I think that will work for,</v>

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our permitting group and they should be able to answer,

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that question right after that presentation,

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or possibly even in the presentation itself.

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<v Deana>Perfect, okay.</v>

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The next question is prepared,

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oh, that was clarification on that one.

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I just wanted to clarify that the new construction reports,

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is 30 days prior to one mile or more,

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and 6 minutes prior, or 10 miles or greater,

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only applied to gas gathering transmission,

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it has just liquid pipelines.

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These reports do not apply to natural gas distribution

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systems, correct.

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<v ->For natural gas distribution systems,</v>

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it would be for a new distribution system,

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like so any new distribution system,

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or if there's a replacement for three or more miles.

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But I can get that one clarified too,

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and answer in the comment section.

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<v Deana>Next question is, have you incorporated,</v>

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these rules rule changes for Class 1 gas gathering?

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<v ->Yes these rules went into effect January 6th, 2020.</v>

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<v Deana>Public order,</v>

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so I think those are all this followup.

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would be changed from liquid to gas doing amendment.

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<v ->I'm sorry, can you restate that one?</v>

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<v Deana>Just public awareness and so on to minus 49 CFR,</v>

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additionally, the liquid commodities,

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would be changed from liquid to gas during an amendment.

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That's all it says.

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<v ->That's probably gonna be under our permitting group,</v>

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as well, and I believe they can answer that under the,

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when after the permitting presentations.

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<v Deana>Okay, Will these slides be available online?</v>

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Yes, I can answer that one.

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We will provide a link on one of the slides,

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in just a little bit,

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to where you can find the presentations.

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What prompted the rule change for gathering Class 1 form.

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<v ->So in those useful links, which actually I'll go</v>

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and here in the preamble, we explain all of that,

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but essentially we were setting the,

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we've had the ability to have rules since House Bill 2982,

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in a past legislative session.

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And we have been assessing the risks of, of these incidents.

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And as we've seen a slight uptick in incidents,

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we've decided that essentially it's time to,

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to create some at least reporting requirements,

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so we can better track these incidents.

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But that information is also included,

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all in the proposed changes to the Texas Register,

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and these two links within, the preamble.

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<v Deana>To the next question,</v>

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are the Class 1 rules required to be covered,

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under O&amp;M procedures?

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<v ->So many of the requirements,</v>

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are really just the three separate requirements.

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There's no specific requirements for plans,

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programs, procedures, or any type of,

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as maintenance to the pipe over,

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prescribed maintenance, to the pipeline.

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Just anything required to keep the pipeline safe,

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under that safety requirement.

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So there's not a specific requirement for O&amp;M's,

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at this time.

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<v Deana>For the pre-construction notification.</v>

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This was not applied to natural gas class,

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when gathering lungs at any gas under one mile, correct?

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<v ->For example this is already incident reporting?</v>

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<v Deana>Well, it says this is for the preconstruction.</v>

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<v ->A a reconstruction notification.</v>

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<v Deana>Yes.</v>

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<v ->This notification is not required for,</v>

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any lines that fall under 8.110,

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and correct if it's under one mile,

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and it's not regarding the rule.

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<v Deana>Is the reporting volume for gathering lines,</v>

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or under OG still 5VDL.

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<v ->For oil and gas, yes, for the pipeline safety regulations,</v>

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I can't really speak to the oil and gas regulations,

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are more familiar with the Chapter 8 regulations,

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and they reportable criteria is five gallons,

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unless it's a five gallon release,

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that was due to maintenance, if not, it is five barrels.

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<v Deana>And the last one under this one,</v>

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does the the 8.110 require reporting

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all rural gas and hazardous liquid gathering lines?

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<v ->Yes, it is for all class 1 gathering lines,</v>

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and rural hazardous liquid gas lines,

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that are not already covered under 192 and 195.

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<v Deana>All right, well we'll take a five minute break,</v>

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we'll resume the webinar at one, sorry, 2.01.

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When we return the RFCs pipeline permit section,

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we'll present on recent changes to 16 TAC 370,

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and a guide to shape file submissions.

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Welcome back.

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We're ready to continue our webinar.

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Just a reminder if you have questions during this webinar,

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please type them into the Q&amp;A section,

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Bruce, we're right for you, when you are.

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<v ->Okay sorry about that,</v>

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I was answering one of the questions online.

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As Deana said, my name is Bruce Waterman,

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and I've been with the Railroad Commission since 1990.

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And we're permitting a mapping since 1995.

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I'm gonna begin the discussion with two changes,

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to 16 TAC, a 370, and then I'm gonna clarify,

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what needs a permit.

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Some of the questions have been about,

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whether you can have gas and liquid on the same permit.

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And how would that be handled?

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I'm gonna go ahead and add that,

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into the end of my discussion,

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that I had previously scheduled,

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that I wanna mention some things about that.

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Then I'm gonna turn it over to who Karley,

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who will discuss in more detail,

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the changes to the mileage fees and renewals,

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then to Ryan for the new transfer merge process.

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And finally, over to Chris for critical information,

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about mapping.

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As stated, I'm going to be discussing a two primary changes,

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to Rule 16 TAC 3.70.

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The first one is that on September 1st,

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permit renewal expiration days for all operators,

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will be moved to the last day of their specific month.

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Based on the first letter of the operators,

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of that operator's name.

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This means that operators too,

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will have their permits during the same,

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will all have their permits during the same month,

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no matter when they appear to due right now.

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So for a lot of lucky operators,

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whose permits expire from September to December of 2020,

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your next renewal will not be until sometime in 2021.

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The only permit that are gonna be getting renewed,

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in fall will be anybody who's permit expired,

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before September 1st, that is in a delinquent status,

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and it needs to be renewed.

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After that your date will then go,

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to the corrected new date based on the month,

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again based on the first letter of the operator's name.

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Something that will be repeated later,

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but I'm gonna mention it here is that,

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the window of opportunity to renew a permit,

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without a late fee is going to be two months.

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So that being the month prior to your expiration month,

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and the month of your expiration date.

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So if you're renewing, for example, in February,

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you would have from January 1st to February 28th,

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in order to renew that permit without a late fee.

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The other major change,

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that is the reduction of late charges,

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for the mileage fee for operators,

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but less than 50 total miles of active pipeline.

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And Karley gonna expand on that a little bit more.

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A last little bit of information I'd like to pass along,

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is not a rule change at all,

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but an enforcement of the rule is that after September 1st,

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a permit cannot be an activated or transfer,

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unless the renewal fees are paid up.

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If you haven't renewed a permit,

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and you decide to inactivate it,

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you will need to renew it first.

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Currently we don't pursue this, but after September 1st,

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we will start pursuing that as needing to be done.

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So I'm gonna discuss what needs the permit.

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And as you can see on this slide,

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on the natural gas pipeline side is really easy.

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It's all pretty much contained a hundred percent,

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in 16 TAC, 3.70.

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All onshore pipeline gathering and production facilities,

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began at the first point of measurement,

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is when it needs to be permitted.

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All pipeline facilities, originating in Texas waters,

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need a permit and all pipelines,

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in a Class 2, 3 or 4 location all need a permit.

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And you'll notice that there's no mention in there,

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about lease lines that has been eliminated,

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by previous rule changes.

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Lease lines did not have any influence,

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on whether a pipeline needs a permit or not,

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for the gas side is based a hundred percent,

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on when is that first point of measurement.

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On the liquid side, but important to both,

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but keep in mind that certain pipelines,

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are exempted by other rules in CFR,

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from being jurisdictional, as far as safety inspections go,

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but they're still required by the RSC to be permitted.

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So with the exception of 195.2,

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and it's referenced to production facilities,

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very few other rules in CFR might also exempt,

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then that does exempt the line from inspections,

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or reporting to the feds,

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would also typically make a permitting,

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those lines is not required.

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You can ask us if a specific line needs to be permitted,

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and we can review those details with you,

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on a case by case basis.

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But again, only really only 195.2,

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will exempt a liquid line from the need to have a permit.

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And before I turn it over to Karley,

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does anybody have any questions?

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<v Deana>Yes first there,</v>

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so questions still from the last one, let's see,

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let me know if you are ready to answer,

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anything on the public awareness and so on to minor 49 CFR.

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Additionally, the liquid commodities,

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would be changed from liquid to gas during a amendment.

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<v ->Yeah and I mentioned that I was gonna talk about that,</v>

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and then I've sort of forgot that,

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but basically what happens is you cannot have gas lines,

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and liquid lines under the same permit.

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And this is because basically they're not regulated,

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under the same CFR.

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Gas is under 192 and liquids under 195.

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So if you have a gas line that you're gonna change,

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to a liquid service,

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then you would have to move it,

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to a completely different permit under your company name.

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So if you have gas lines and liquid lines by default,

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you're gonna have to have two different permits,

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a gas permit and a liquid permit.

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So that's not having, not being able to have gas,

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and liquids on the same permit goes along with the,

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you can't have interstate and intrastate on the same permit.

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And you also can't have private pipelines,

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under the same permit,

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where you would have either a gas utility lines,

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or on the gas side or a common carrier lines,

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on the liquid side.

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Those are things that are exempt from each other,

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and can't be on the same permit.

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<v Deana>Great, there's another question,</v>

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is this one are going to be available later,

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for on demand video view?

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Yes, there will be a link on the last slide we show you,

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that shows how to get to the archive webcasts.

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<v ->Yes.</v>

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<v Deana>Anything prior to meter does it need,</v>

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to be permitting as a liquid, as a guest?

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<v ->If the only time you would have to have a permit,</v>

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for a line before the meter,

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is if it's in the water like offshore,

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or if it's in Class 2, 3 or 4 location,

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if it's in Class 1 location,

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the lines before the meter are flow lines.

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<v Deana>Yeah, the next question is,</v>

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is it referring to Bruce's explanation

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of full dream meet a gathering versus gathering?

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<v ->Yeah and I did answer that question a little bit online,</v>

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but I can tell you,

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I wanna go ahead and a little bit more on that,

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basically gas flow wellstream or,

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crude oil wellstream is just implying that,

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or letting us know that you're aware,

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that there's other things that are in the pipeline,

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besides the commodity that you're out there for.

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So I've always kind of said that, you know,

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for example, I could have a gas line that has liquids in it,

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and, but I'm gonna call it.

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I'm gonna some liquids like NGLs or crude,

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or just whatever goop whatever is coming out of the well,

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it's full flow stream.

516
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I can have a gas full flow stream line,

517
00:24:22.610 --> 00:24:24.773
that has the exact same amount of natural gas in it.

518
00:24:24.773 --> 00:24:27.270
As somebody else who's out there for crude,

519
00:24:27.270 --> 00:24:29.892
you know, he has a crude oil, and his main reason for,

520
00:24:29.892 --> 00:24:33.880
for producing any commodity is he's after the crude.

521
00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:35.840
And he would call his crude oil stream,

522
00:24:35.840 --> 00:24:37.500
even though he might have just as much gas,

523
00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:39.160
in his crude oil stream,

524
00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:42.510
as a natural gas operator might have crude gas,

525
00:24:42.510 --> 00:24:43.370
and the airline.

526
00:24:43.370 --> 00:24:45.240
So that what I say is as if,

527
00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:47.840
whatever it is that, the well is supposed to be producing,

528
00:24:47.840 --> 00:24:49.990
or whatever the commodity is that you were,

529
00:24:51.210 --> 00:24:52.210
pulling out of that, well,

530
00:24:52.210 --> 00:24:54.000
you should consider yourself a gas.

531
00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.980
If you're a gas operator,

532
00:24:54.980 --> 00:24:56.410
you should call it gas full wellstream.

533
00:24:56.410 --> 00:24:57.500
If you're a crude operator,

534
00:24:57.500 --> 00:24:59.370
you should call it crude full wellstream,

535
00:24:59.370 --> 00:25:01.890
but you're not telling us how much of this extra stuff,

536
00:25:01.890 --> 00:25:02.723
is in there.

537
00:25:02.723 --> 00:25:03.950
You're just acknowledging to us,

538
00:25:03.950 --> 00:25:06.400
that there is stuff in the pipeline,

539
00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:07.850
other than what it is that you're out there for,

540
00:25:07.850 --> 00:25:08.863
in the first place.

541
00:25:09.800 --> 00:25:12.290
Gas full wellstream and crude full wellstream,

542
00:25:12.290 --> 00:25:13.610
don't have anything to do with,

543
00:25:13.610 --> 00:25:14.900
whether you need a permit or not.

544
00:25:14.900 --> 00:25:17.890
Again, that gets back to in the gas side,

545
00:25:17.890 --> 00:25:20.510
where once it's metered, it has to have a permit.

546
00:25:20.510 --> 00:25:22.810
And on the liquid side, again,

547
00:25:22.810 --> 00:25:26.900
if it's a production full line based on 195.2,

548
00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:27.950
then it doesn't need a permit,

549
00:25:27.950 --> 00:25:29.700
but everything else needs a permit.

550
00:25:32.750 --> 00:25:35.020
<v Deana>Perfect, let's see what else,</v>

551
00:25:35.020 --> 00:25:37.650
we are asking if liquid gas on same permit,

552
00:25:37.650 --> 00:25:40.900
but amendment slash change a currently with commodity,

553
00:25:40.900 --> 00:25:43.270
to gas, commodity, and merging that changes,

554
00:25:43.270 --> 00:25:45.820
in existing gas permit.

555
00:25:45.820 --> 00:25:47.173
You answered all that.

556
00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.830
<v ->I believe I did, I think the question is,</v>

557
00:25:51.830 --> 00:25:53.829
can you have gas and liquid on the side?

558
00:25:53.829 --> 00:25:54.880
The answer is no.

559
00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:57.180
<v Deana>Okay it seems to be receding.</v>

560
00:25:57.180 --> 00:25:59.593
Does that include gas, lift lines.

561
00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:04.000
<v ->Gas lift lines, gas gathering lines,</v>

562
00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:05.210
gas transmission lines.

563
00:26:05.210 --> 00:26:06.560
Anything that if it's a gas line,

564
00:26:06.560 --> 00:26:08.063
it can be on the same permit.

565
00:26:08.910 --> 00:26:12.870
And so whatever its function in the gas on the gas side,

566
00:26:12.870 --> 00:26:15.070
or whatever the function is on the liquid side,

567
00:26:15.070 --> 00:26:17.110
all of those things can be on the same permit.

568
00:26:17.110 --> 00:26:19.570
I'm not exactly sure if that's exactly what they asked,

569
00:26:19.570 --> 00:26:23.460
but any function of crude, the movement of crude,

570
00:26:23.460 --> 00:26:25.990
or movement of any kind of liquid commodity,

571
00:26:25.990 --> 00:26:28.800
all of those different things can be whether it's regulated

572
00:26:28.800 --> 00:26:29.633
or not regulated.

573
00:26:29.633 --> 00:26:30.990
In other words, if we do inspections,

574
00:26:30.990 --> 00:26:32.080
or don't do inspections,

575
00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:33.920
all those things can be on the same permit.

576
00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:36.320
As long as the commodity that you're out there for,

577
00:26:36.320 --> 00:26:40.620
in the first place is the same thing.

578
00:26:40.620 --> 00:26:41.690
<v Deana>Okay, great.</v>

579
00:26:41.690 --> 00:26:42.907
And let's see the next question.

580
00:26:42.907 --> 00:26:45.820
For liquid pipeline subject to US Coast Guard,

581
00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:49.060
exempt per 195.1,

582
00:26:49.060 --> 00:26:52.133
are these pipelines exempt from T-4 requirements.

583
00:26:53.870 --> 00:26:55.570
<v ->If you're regulated by the Coast Guard,</v>

584
00:26:55.570 --> 00:26:57.720
then I, they don't need, they don't,

585
00:26:57.720 --> 00:26:59.700
they're not regulated by the Texas Railroad Commission.

586
00:26:59.700 --> 00:27:00.870
They don't need a permit,

587
00:27:00.870 --> 00:27:03.493
and they don't they're not inspected by us.

588
00:27:05.518 --> 00:27:08.360
<v Deana>Can you clarify your previous slide,</v>

589
00:27:08.360 --> 00:27:12.470
that says only Class 2, 3 and 4 needed permitting?

590
00:27:12.470 --> 00:27:15.080
Would that bullet point be limited to gathering,

591
00:27:15.080 --> 00:27:18.310
otherwise, as you're saying Class 1 transition,

592
00:27:18.310 --> 00:27:19.510
doesn't need permitting?

593
00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:21.920
<v ->No what I was trying to say that,</v>

594
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:24.030
is if you have a otherwise flow line,

595
00:27:24.030 --> 00:27:27.570
or say if you had a Well in a, in an urban area,

596
00:27:27.570 --> 00:27:29.310
at a Class 2 location,

597
00:27:29.310 --> 00:27:32.480
then that pipeline has gone going to be,

598
00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:34.420
a need to be permitted from the second,

599
00:27:34.420 --> 00:27:36.670
at that at the very beginning point,

600
00:27:36.670 --> 00:27:39.410
you might have a meter that's a hundred yards down the line

601
00:27:39.410 --> 00:27:41.060
or a quarter mile, whatever.

602
00:27:41.060 --> 00:27:42.690
I mean, that's not like in a Class 2,

603
00:27:42.690 --> 00:27:44.850
but it doesn't matter where the meter is.

604
00:27:44.850 --> 00:27:46.180
If you're in a Class 2 location,

605
00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:47.890
the entire thing has to be permitted,

606
00:27:47.890 --> 00:27:50.950
not just the part that from the meter,

607
00:27:50.950 --> 00:27:54.460
on obviously transmission lines, anything,

608
00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:57.510
those all need to be permitted and they're also inspected.

609
00:27:57.510 --> 00:27:59.784
But what I was referring to for Class 2 and 3,

610
00:27:59.784 --> 00:28:03.560
2, 3, and 4 means that supersedes,

611
00:28:03.560 --> 00:28:05.000
whether or not there's a meter there,

612
00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.540
everything that's in a Class 2 or 3 or 4,

613
00:28:07.540 --> 00:28:08.603
has to have a permit.

614
00:28:09.570 --> 00:28:11.930
<v Deana>Great, and the last question is,</v>

615
00:28:11.930 --> 00:28:14.080
does this rule apply to carbon capture,

616
00:28:14.080 --> 00:28:16.413
and sequestration pipelines?

617
00:28:20.473 --> 00:28:22.170
<v ->I really don't know the answer to that,</v>

618
00:28:22.170 --> 00:28:24.000
perhaps maybe Stephanie could help me with that,

619
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:25.173
I'm not exactly sure.

620
00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:30.610
We'll get the, if that sort of written answer,

621
00:28:30.610 --> 00:28:32.920
a question we'll get, we'll make sure we get the answer

622
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:33.753
at some point.

623
00:28:33.753 --> 00:28:35.620
I'm not as sure though.

624
00:28:35.620 --> 00:28:36.453
<v Deana>We'll leave it at that one,</v>

625
00:28:36.453 --> 00:28:38.200
the first, the next question.

626
00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:43.200
So, okay I guess that is all that.

627
00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.150
We will continue our webinar Karley,

628
00:28:49.150 --> 00:28:50.610
we're ready when you are.

629
00:28:50.610 --> 00:28:51.923
Bruce can you stop share.

630
00:28:57.340 --> 00:29:00.000
<v ->Hello everybody my name is Karley Bisbano.</v>

631
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.570
I am a permit specialist working under pipeline safety,

632
00:29:03.570 --> 00:29:05.550
and I have been with the commission,

633
00:29:05.550 --> 00:29:07.810
for just over a year now.

634
00:29:07.810 --> 00:29:09.530
I'm gonna kind of go into depth,

635
00:29:09.530 --> 00:29:12.223
on some of those points that Bruce mentioned,

636
00:29:13.060 --> 00:29:16.950
how 3.70 has affected the mileage late fees,

637
00:29:16.950 --> 00:29:19.220
as well as the renewals.

638
00:29:19.220 --> 00:29:22.760
Before I do get too far into the late fees,

639
00:29:22.760 --> 00:29:24.910
I did wanna give you guys a general overview,

640
00:29:24.910 --> 00:29:26.893
of the mileage fees themselves.

641
00:29:28.420 --> 00:29:30.400
So the mileage fees are calculated,

642
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.840
by the mileage of each permit on December 31st,

643
00:29:33.840 --> 00:29:35.520
of the prior year.

644
00:29:35.520 --> 00:29:38.530
And that operator is responsible to pay that fee,

645
00:29:38.530 --> 00:29:39.930
by April 1st.

646
00:29:39.930 --> 00:29:43.180
So to break that down the mileage fee this year,

647
00:29:43.180 --> 00:29:47.570
was due April 1st, 2020, whatever you had on your permit,

648
00:29:47.570 --> 00:29:50.500
December 31st of 2019,

649
00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:52.500
that is where we're pulling your miles from.

650
00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:55.480
So if any changes or amendments were made,

651
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.856
after the end of 2019,

652
00:29:57.856 --> 00:30:00.500
they won't be seen in your mileage fee,

653
00:30:00.500 --> 00:30:03.903
we're pulling just from that end of the 2018 timeframe.

654
00:30:05.070 --> 00:30:08.070
So, as I mentioned, the due date for mileage fees,

655
00:30:08.070 --> 00:30:09.840
is April 1st.

656
00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:13.320
That said you do have anywhere after the first of the year

657
00:30:13.320 --> 00:30:14.880
to submit that payment,

658
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.220
you'll see that become available in your pop system.

659
00:30:18.220 --> 00:30:20.010
And it'll be on the left side of your screen.

660
00:30:20.010 --> 00:30:23.880
There will be a small option that says pay mileage fee.

661
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:25.220
Once you get that paid,

662
00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:28.640
it'll gray out and it won't be an option anymore.

663
00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:30.300
So since you have part a few months,

664
00:30:30.300 --> 00:30:33.990
to get that mileage fee payment, and before April 1st,

665
00:30:33.990 --> 00:30:36.660
if you can, it's always going to knock it out early,

666
00:30:36.660 --> 00:30:40.923
and avoid any mileage late fees that you would run into.

667
00:30:42.770 --> 00:30:45.540
So another note is the mileage fees are paid,

668
00:30:45.540 --> 00:30:48.850
at the P-5 operator level with one payment.

669
00:30:48.850 --> 00:30:52.307
What that means is if you have 10 T-4 permits,

670
00:30:52.307 --> 00:30:55.260
you're not going to have to submit 10 different payments.

671
00:30:55.260 --> 00:30:57.360
We're going to do that math for you,

672
00:30:57.360 --> 00:31:01.000
out of all of your miles, we'll take that final number,

673
00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:03.310
we're gonna round it up to the nearest whole number.

674
00:31:03.310 --> 00:31:05.070
And that is what we're going to be using,

675
00:31:05.070 --> 00:31:06.613
to calculate your mileage.

676
00:31:11.220 --> 00:31:14.750
So the mileage fees are broken into two different groups,

677
00:31:14.750 --> 00:31:17.180
group A and group B.

678
00:31:17.180 --> 00:31:20.890
Group A miles are going to be at $20 per mile.

679
00:31:20.890 --> 00:31:24.780
And these are going to include the federally regulated,

680
00:31:24.780 --> 00:31:27.400
and RRC inspected pipelines.

681
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:30.317
And then those group B miles are going to be,

682
00:31:30.317 --> 00:31:32.380
only $10 per mile.

683
00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:34.220
And they're basically going to be everything,

684
00:31:34.220 --> 00:31:38.890
that is not regulated, but still needs to be on that T-4,

685
00:31:38.890 --> 00:31:41.893
so that might include a cost one gathering line.

686
00:31:46.180 --> 00:31:50.040
So now we'll get into how the 3.70 rule change,

687
00:31:50.040 --> 00:31:54.170
has affected the mileage late fees themselves.

688
00:31:54.170 --> 00:31:56.630
So if you'll look at the bottom of this chart,

689
00:31:56.630 --> 00:32:00.480
that's going to reflect what the late fee structure was,

690
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.550
before we had this rule change.

691
00:32:02.550 --> 00:32:05.060
So if you were late on your mileage fee,

692
00:32:05.060 --> 00:32:08.270
and you had to submit a late fee was your payment,

693
00:32:08.270 --> 00:32:11.490
it would be either 250, 500 or $700,

694
00:32:11.490 --> 00:32:14.463
depending on how late your payment is.

695
00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:16.740
Something that has changed,

696
00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:19.170
if you look at the top of the chart is now,

697
00:32:19.170 --> 00:32:22.270
if you have 50 miles or less,

698
00:32:22.270 --> 00:32:25.750
those late fees are going to be essentially cut in half.

699
00:32:25.750 --> 00:32:28.030
So if you're under 30 days late,

700
00:32:28.030 --> 00:32:33.030
it will be 125, 250 moving to 350.

701
00:32:33.340 --> 00:32:36.210
So again, just as a note here,

702
00:32:36.210 --> 00:32:39.620
let's say you only have two or three miles of wine.

703
00:32:39.620 --> 00:32:43.310
It really wouldn't be great to be stuck with $350 late fee.

704
00:32:43.310 --> 00:32:46.980
So if you can get those submitted before April 1st,

705
00:32:46.980 --> 00:32:50.883
definitely set yourself a calendar reminder and get that in.

706
00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:58.640
So rule change data set fee the renewals a bit,

707
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:00.183
and we'll get into that now.

708
00:33:02.470 --> 00:33:06.490
So the, this will go into effect September 1st.

709
00:33:06.490 --> 00:33:08.880
And what is essentially happening is that,

710
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:11.230
all of your permits are going to,

711
00:33:11.230 --> 00:33:14.160
from now on have the same expiration date,

712
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:15.970
for future renewables.

713
00:33:15.970 --> 00:33:18.240
So what this means is is right now,

714
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:20.700
if you have 20 permits and they all have different

715
00:33:20.700 --> 00:33:23.760
expiration dates scattered throughout the year,

716
00:33:23.760 --> 00:33:26.130
moving into 2021, you're gonna see those fall,

717
00:33:26.130 --> 00:33:28.720
into the same month, just to make them easier,

718
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.350
to keep track of and hopefully to avoid late fees,

719
00:33:32.350 --> 00:33:34.800
on renewables and whatnot as well.

720
00:33:34.800 --> 00:33:37.380
And something about that, one of the reasons,

721
00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:39.280
we're doing this is that the renewals,

722
00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:41.870
are now going to fall into the same calendar,

723
00:33:41.870 --> 00:33:43.540
and fiscal year.

724
00:33:43.540 --> 00:33:45.250
I'm gonna go into this in the next slide,

725
00:33:45.250 --> 00:33:47.130
but we're now having those scheduled,

726
00:33:47.130 --> 00:33:49.603
between February and July.

727
00:33:52.890 --> 00:33:54.490
So now you'll see here,

728
00:33:54.490 --> 00:33:59.490
the new structure for what renewal month you'll be assigned.

729
00:33:59.570 --> 00:34:01.650
So, as I just mentioned,

730
00:34:01.650 --> 00:34:04.080
it is going through February through July,

731
00:34:04.080 --> 00:34:08.500
and it's going by the first letter of your operator name.

732
00:34:08.500 --> 00:34:11.200
So if you are ABC oil,

733
00:34:11.200 --> 00:34:15.300
that means that you're going to have to file in February.

734
00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:18.850
And I think Bruce mentioned this as well,

735
00:34:18.850 --> 00:34:20.790
but you will have a two month period,

736
00:34:20.790 --> 00:34:22.640
to get your renewals in.

737
00:34:22.640 --> 00:34:25.870
So if you file, you're scheduled to file in February,

738
00:34:25.870 --> 00:34:28.230
you'll have all of January and all of February,

739
00:34:28.230 --> 00:34:30.163
to get those renewables submitted.

740
00:34:31.290 --> 00:34:33.010
So as a note,

741
00:34:33.010 --> 00:34:37.740
if you currently have a permit that is scheduled to expire

742
00:34:37.740 --> 00:34:40.717
or needs renewal any time after September 1st,

743
00:34:40.717 --> 00:34:43.160
to the end of 2020,

744
00:34:43.160 --> 00:34:46.990
what's going to happen is we're automatically going to,

745
00:34:46.990 --> 00:34:48.090
as of September 1st,

746
00:34:48.090 --> 00:34:50.160
we're going to bump that renewal date,

747
00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:54.240
to your new assigned month that you'll see, you know,

748
00:34:54.240 --> 00:34:56.670
pick out from this chart here will do it automatically,

749
00:34:56.670 --> 00:34:59.223
you'll just see the update done in POPS.

750
00:35:00.340 --> 00:35:02.060
Something else to note is,

751
00:35:02.060 --> 00:35:04.620
if you do have one of these renewables,

752
00:35:04.620 --> 00:35:06.660
that's going to be due between September,

753
00:35:06.660 --> 00:35:07.970
and the end of the year.

754
00:35:07.970 --> 00:35:10.450
If you've already taken care of that renewal,

755
00:35:10.450 --> 00:35:13.770
and it's been submitted, approved and paid and whatnot,

756
00:35:13.770 --> 00:35:15.000
whenever you look into POPS,

757
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:18.140
you'll see that your expiration or renewal date,

758
00:35:18.140 --> 00:35:20.803
will be bumped to the 2022 timeframe.

759
00:35:26.790 --> 00:35:28.900
So any permits that are due for renewal,

760
00:35:28.900 --> 00:35:30.820
between September 1st and December 31st,

761
00:35:30.820 --> 00:35:32.570
will automatically have the new renewal date,

762
00:35:32.570 --> 00:35:35.150
moved to the new assignments in 2021.

763
00:35:35.150 --> 00:35:37.250
And that's just explaining what I just mention,

764
00:35:37.250 --> 00:35:39.323
so we can go to the next slide please.

765
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:45.010
One other change is when you will be paying,

766
00:35:45.010 --> 00:35:47.990
that $500 renewal fee.

767
00:35:47.990 --> 00:35:51.360
So before this rule change, you paid the $500 fee.

768
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:53.490
If you were applying for a new permit,

769
00:35:53.490 --> 00:35:55.950
or if you were renewing your current permit,

770
00:35:55.950 --> 00:35:58.810
that is going to stay the same,

771
00:35:58.810 --> 00:36:01.270
what is going to be different now is,

772
00:36:01.270 --> 00:36:04.190
if you have a full transfer,

773
00:36:04.190 --> 00:36:06.950
and you were the acquiring operator,

774
00:36:06.950 --> 00:36:10.900
and you decided to keep that permit and not change it,

775
00:36:10.900 --> 00:36:11.950
and not merge it or anything.

776
00:36:11.950 --> 00:36:13.620
And you're going to keep that permit number,

777
00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:16.190
that you've acquired from the divesting operator,

778
00:36:16.190 --> 00:36:18.180
upon acquisition of that new permit,

779
00:36:18.180 --> 00:36:19.510
that was transferred to you.

780
00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:24.510
You will have to pay a $500 renewal processing for you.

781
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.830
Now, some detail on that is,

782
00:36:27.830 --> 00:36:30.630
when we moved to this new renewal structure.

783
00:36:30.630 --> 00:36:34.540
If you acquire a permit in February,

784
00:36:34.540 --> 00:36:36.070
and you say, I'm gonna keep the permit,

785
00:36:36.070 --> 00:36:39.050
I'm gonna pay the $500 processing fee.

786
00:36:39.050 --> 00:36:42.670
If your renewal date is scheduled for March,

787
00:36:42.670 --> 00:36:43.980
and you just got this new product,

788
00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:46.730
that you just paid, that $500 fee on,

789
00:36:46.730 --> 00:36:48.710
you're not going to have to renew it again in March.

790
00:36:48.710 --> 00:36:52.100
It'll be all set for that calendar year,

791
00:36:52.100 --> 00:36:53.740
and you won't have to renew it again,

792
00:36:53.740 --> 00:36:56.483
until the next renewal month rolls around.

793
00:37:01.410 --> 00:37:05.380
And then I did want to leave you with quick facts and tips

794
00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:06.660
about renewals in general.

795
00:37:06.660 --> 00:37:08.600
Just things to really keep in mind.

796
00:37:08.600 --> 00:37:12.360
Whenever you're doing that POPS submission work,

797
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.800
a big one is the amendments do not renew your permit.

798
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:18.700
If you have to take care of a renewal and amendment,

799
00:37:18.700 --> 00:37:20.040
in the same time, period,

800
00:37:20.040 --> 00:37:22.340
just know they are separate actions,

801
00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:24.643
and they both need to be done separately.

802
00:37:27.150 --> 00:37:31.070
Another thing is that if you do have an interstate permit,

803
00:37:31.070 --> 00:37:35.310
just know that you won't have to pay these $500 fees.

804
00:37:35.310 --> 00:37:38.170
And you also also won't have the mileage fee,

805
00:37:38.170 --> 00:37:41.320
applied to your permits.

806
00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:43.600
And then a really big one here, lastly,

807
00:37:43.600 --> 00:37:46.680
if you have a permit renewal that's due within a month,

808
00:37:46.680 --> 00:37:48.480
and you also have an amendment,

809
00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:50.700
or some other work to get done,

810
00:37:50.700 --> 00:37:53.410
just know you really need to submit that renewal,

811
00:37:53.410 --> 00:37:55.730
before you do your amendment.

812
00:37:55.730 --> 00:37:59.210
And we say that because by law,

813
00:37:59.210 --> 00:38:03.020
we have 30 days in our queue to review your submission,

814
00:38:03.020 --> 00:38:06.390
and get it approved or rejected and returned back to you.

815
00:38:06.390 --> 00:38:08.030
And as a lot of you probably know,

816
00:38:08.030 --> 00:38:11.070
you can only do one action at a time in POPS.

817
00:38:11.070 --> 00:38:12.450
If you send over an amendment,

818
00:38:12.450 --> 00:38:15.230
and let's say it takes us 20 days to do,

819
00:38:15.230 --> 00:38:17.420
if your renewal expiration date,

820
00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:19.290
passes during that time.

821
00:38:19.290 --> 00:38:20.660
And you get back to your permit,

822
00:38:20.660 --> 00:38:22.340
and you're trying to renew it,

823
00:38:22.340 --> 00:38:24.500
you know, going to be stuck with a late fee.

824
00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:29.010
So when in doubt, renew first and you ever make a mistake,

825
00:38:29.010 --> 00:38:30.630
can you submit an amendment first.

826
00:38:30.630 --> 00:38:33.990
You can always ask us to reject it for you to send it back

827
00:38:33.990 --> 00:38:35.410
so you can do your renewal,

828
00:38:35.410 --> 00:38:37.110
and then move into that amendment.

829
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:40.580
And I believe that is my last slide.

830
00:38:40.580 --> 00:38:44.361
So before I hand it over, do we have any questions?

831
00:38:44.361 --> 00:38:47.130
<v Deana>Yes Karley there's a couple,</v>

832
00:38:47.130 --> 00:38:50.493
is how is operator name selected according to the P-5?

833
00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:55.810
<v ->How is the operator named selected by the P-5?</v>

834
00:38:55.810 --> 00:38:59.420
Yes, it is going by your PS5 operator name.

835
00:38:59.420 --> 00:39:02.060
So whatever you have submitted on your P-5,

836
00:39:02.060 --> 00:39:03.960
the first letter of that operator name,

837
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:07.728
will be how we're assigning, you were a renewable ones.

838
00:39:07.728 --> 00:39:10.930
And you had a question to see if we have a transfer,

839
00:39:10.930 --> 00:39:14.050
in September to December 2020 period.

840
00:39:14.050 --> 00:39:16.490
Do we pay the renewal at the time of the transfer,

841
00:39:16.490 --> 00:39:19.483
or do we pay in 2021 that are designated.

842
00:39:22.040 --> 00:39:25.650
<v ->So for a September 1st and I'll have my colleague step in,</v>

843
00:39:25.650 --> 00:39:29.260
if I have this wrong after September 1st,

844
00:39:29.260 --> 00:39:30.950
if you have a transfer,

845
00:39:30.950 --> 00:39:35.290
if your renewal or your permit is expired,

846
00:39:35.290 --> 00:39:38.330
you will be, I believe you will be required,

847
00:39:38.330 --> 00:39:43.330
to take, oh, actually, since we're bumping into 2021, right.

848
00:39:44.340 --> 00:39:45.260
Do you have thoughts on this?

849
00:39:45.260 --> 00:39:47.210
I haven't thought about this situation.

850
00:39:48.450 --> 00:39:50.170
<v ->I can take this one.</v>

851
00:39:50.170 --> 00:39:54.920
So have you ever transfer from September to December,

852
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:58.520
assuming that you are in compliance with zero late fees.

853
00:39:58.520 --> 00:40:01.670
You will still pay that upon transfer.

854
00:40:01.670 --> 00:40:05.440
And then so if the transfer took place this year,

855
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:09.070
and say October of 2020,

856
00:40:09.070 --> 00:40:12.300
you'll pay upon transfer and then you won't pay,

857
00:40:12.300 --> 00:40:16.453
the renewal again until your designated months of 2022.

858
00:40:17.700 --> 00:40:22.700
So you pay money transfer and then the next fiscal year,

859
00:40:22.970 --> 00:40:25.250
as a way that you would pay for us to fiscal years,

860
00:40:25.250 --> 00:40:28.080
is from September 1st to August 31st.

861
00:40:33.310 --> 00:40:34.800
Thank you Ryan.

862
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:36.745
Where there any other questions?

863
00:40:36.745 --> 00:40:38.540
<v Deana>No, that's all the questions,</v>

864
00:40:38.540 --> 00:40:40.153
I guess we'll continue our webinar,

865
00:40:40.153 --> 00:40:41.653
Ryan we're ready when you are.

866
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:45.330
<v ->Good afternoon, everyone.</v>

867
00:40:45.330 --> 00:40:46.600
My name is Ryan Hejl.

868
00:40:46.600 --> 00:40:50.710
I am the team lead for the pipeline and permitting,

869
00:40:50.710 --> 00:40:54.030
and mapping section and oversight and safety.

870
00:40:54.030 --> 00:40:56.540
And I'll be going over a new action in POPS,

871
00:40:56.540 --> 00:40:59.493
and a new code in JS as well for a transfer merge.

872
00:41:00.630 --> 00:41:02.260
It's for full transfers only.

873
00:41:02.260 --> 00:41:05.793
And it's only on the acquiring side for the operator.

874
00:41:09.160 --> 00:41:13.570
So when a full transfer takes place the divesting side,

875
00:41:13.570 --> 00:41:16.010
the students submitted divesting transfer action,

876
00:41:16.010 --> 00:41:17.543
just like it is currently.

877
00:41:19.040 --> 00:41:20.670
But now on the acquiring side,

878
00:41:20.670 --> 00:41:23.623
there's only two options for the acquiring operator.

879
00:41:24.520 --> 00:41:26.170
They can keep the permit number,

880
00:41:26.170 --> 00:41:28.623
and file an acquiring full transfer,

881
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:33.030
or they'll be able to file a new action transfer merge,

882
00:41:33.030 --> 00:41:37.230
and immediately merge all the pipelines from the permit,

883
00:41:37.230 --> 00:41:41.210
they're requiring into an existing permit of the same type.

884
00:41:41.210 --> 00:41:44.770
The gas has to go into gas and liquid has to go into liquid.

885
00:41:44.770 --> 00:41:48.810
If by chance you are having a transferring lines,

886
00:41:48.810 --> 00:41:52.570
and they're going from gas, so liquid go from liquid to gas,

887
00:41:52.570 --> 00:41:55.860
reach out to us when it's happening and we'll work with you,

888
00:41:55.860 --> 00:41:58.670
to get those transferred over correctly,

889
00:41:58.670 --> 00:42:01.420
and not have any duplicates in the mapping or anything.

890
00:42:04.067 --> 00:42:07.060
Remember if you wanna keep the permit number,

891
00:42:07.060 --> 00:42:12.060
you're gonna be paying the renewal fee of permit transfer,

892
00:42:13.080 --> 00:42:15.030
but you have to go to the divesting side,

893
00:42:15.030 --> 00:42:17.360
and do there is we're gonna review it.

894
00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:19.530
And if we approve it,

895
00:42:19.530 --> 00:42:21.070
that permits get moved under,

896
00:42:21.070 --> 00:42:23.590
to the acquiring operator's dashboard,

897
00:42:23.590 --> 00:42:25.460
and you can click on actions,

898
00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:27.963
and set the acquiring for transfer,

899
00:42:29.500 --> 00:42:32.310
and then they would attach the cover letter,

900
00:42:32.310 --> 00:42:36.080
and the T4B no mappings needed,

901
00:42:36.080 --> 00:42:37.370
if you're keeping the permit number,

902
00:42:37.370 --> 00:42:39.483
and we will review that transfer,

903
00:42:39.483 --> 00:42:42.900
and approve it and move it, move it over.

904
00:42:44.570 --> 00:42:48.820
If you're going to do a merge, the transfer permit,

905
00:42:50.333 --> 00:42:54.331
the divesting operator is still going to submit it.

906
00:42:54.331 --> 00:42:56.670
We'll review it and approve it.

907
00:42:56.670 --> 00:42:59.160
And then on the permit that you already have,

908
00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:00.567
not the permanent, it was transferred to you.

909
00:43:00.567 --> 00:43:02.660
You would click on actions,

910
00:43:02.660 --> 00:43:05.553
and select acquire transfer merge.

911
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:09.853
And then once that's through,

912
00:43:12.060 --> 00:43:14.090
if you do a wire transfer merged,

913
00:43:14.090 --> 00:43:16.165
it will not be an extra renewal fee,

914
00:43:16.165 --> 00:43:17.689
if you pay them on a transfer,

915
00:43:17.689 --> 00:43:19.168
and you'll pay for the renewal,

916
00:43:19.168 --> 00:43:21.018
for the permit that you already have.

917
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:24.153
Next slide.

918
00:43:25.940 --> 00:43:27.720
So what do you do with transfer merge?

919
00:43:27.720 --> 00:43:30.450
You can do more full permits at the same time,

920
00:43:30.450 --> 00:43:33.850
from multiple operators, or even from the same operator.

921
00:43:33.850 --> 00:43:37.440
When you still like the option at the bottom of the permit

922
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:39.580
to have on the first page,

923
00:43:39.580 --> 00:43:42.493
there you'll have a list of all the permits,

924
00:43:42.493 --> 00:43:45.450
that you can transfer and merge into the permit,

925
00:43:45.450 --> 00:43:46.543
that you selected.

926
00:43:47.680 --> 00:43:51.730
You'll enter the, the effective data transfer,

927
00:43:51.730 --> 00:43:55.670
which needs to match whether the wrestling operator,

928
00:43:55.670 --> 00:43:58.570
put on their side so we can link them together.

929
00:43:58.570 --> 00:43:59.410
You know, once you do that,

930
00:43:59.410 --> 00:44:01.503
you'll be able to just select all the permits,

931
00:44:02.680 --> 00:44:04.290
that you would like transferred into this permit.

932
00:44:04.290 --> 00:44:06.983
And they'll show up on the list over below there.

933
00:44:09.450 --> 00:44:12.220
Like I said, this action is only for full permits,

934
00:44:12.220 --> 00:44:13.593
that are being transferred.

935
00:44:14.770 --> 00:44:19.470
If they're being transferred in a liquid to gas,

936
00:44:19.470 --> 00:44:23.010
or gas to liquid, or if you have permits,

937
00:44:23.010 --> 00:44:25.200
that you're trying to merge together,

938
00:44:25.200 --> 00:44:27.490
you'll get a warning saying that you can't,

939
00:44:27.490 --> 00:44:29.640
there's no permits here for you to transfer merge,

940
00:44:29.640 --> 00:44:31.993
and the system will not let you proceed.

941
00:44:33.810 --> 00:44:36.350
If you are trying to emerge your own permits together,

942
00:44:36.350 --> 00:44:37.490
that's still done the old way,

943
00:44:37.490 --> 00:44:39.353
you need a man to the permit you wanna keep,

944
00:44:39.353 --> 00:44:42.080
I'll show all that in the mapping,

945
00:44:42.080 --> 00:44:47.080
and then you will need to inactivate the permits,

946
00:44:47.130 --> 00:44:49.320
that you were being merging into,

947
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:50.610
the one that you're keeping.

948
00:44:50.610 --> 00:44:52.920
Or transfer merge the inactivation,

949
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.100
has to be done by the system.

950
00:44:55.100 --> 00:44:57.020
And also for the transfer merge,

951
00:44:57.020 --> 00:44:59.640
we're gonna need a cover letter T4B,

952
00:44:59.640 --> 00:45:02.093
and we'll need the mapping for that.

953
00:45:02.093 --> 00:45:03.570
Before the mapping for the permits,

954
00:45:03.570 --> 00:45:07.280
you're acquiring through the transfer that coded with TM.

955
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.520
And then for the lines that are already,

956
00:45:09.520 --> 00:45:12.573
under the existing permits would be NC for no change.

957
00:45:14.690 --> 00:45:15.740
Any questions so far.

958
00:45:17.890 --> 00:45:20.430
<v Deana>There's one question as a permit,</v>

959
00:45:20.430 --> 00:45:23.690
was renewed recently, but some permits are playing,

960
00:45:23.690 --> 00:45:26.300
he merged into the review permit.

961
00:45:26.300 --> 00:45:30.250
Are there any costs associated with those unrenewed permits

962
00:45:30.250 --> 00:45:34.837
that were, are merging into the other renewed?

963
00:45:34.837 --> 00:45:36.754
What does the inactive,

964
00:45:38.055 --> 00:45:40.770
when does the inactive of the merged permits,

965
00:45:40.770 --> 00:45:42.663
have to be have to take place?

966
00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:45.540
<v ->So this was kind of, it goes back,</v>

967
00:45:45.540 --> 00:45:48.520
to what Bruce was talking about as well.

968
00:45:48.520 --> 00:45:50.930
Since you have to inactivate the permit,

969
00:45:50.930 --> 00:45:55.693
as a part of this merge process, you can,

970
00:45:58.240 --> 00:46:01.660
open to a September 1st there is no fees with it.

971
00:46:01.660 --> 00:46:06.277
If the permits are merging into your existing permit,

972
00:46:07.890 --> 00:46:09.200
are expired.

973
00:46:09.200 --> 00:46:11.560
We're not gonna pursue those after September 1st,

974
00:46:11.560 --> 00:46:13.300
the system's actually gonna block you,

975
00:46:13.300 --> 00:46:17.103
from an activating that permit until the fees are paid.

976
00:46:19.270 --> 00:46:22.730
So right now you can do it for about another month,

977
00:46:22.730 --> 00:46:23.660
three weeks or so.

978
00:46:23.660 --> 00:46:24.680
And then September 1st,

979
00:46:24.680 --> 00:46:26.800
the system's actually gonna stop you from doing that,

980
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:28.653
until all the permits are occurring.

981
00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:34.043
And I believe there was another part of that question,

982
00:46:34.043 --> 00:46:34.876
as well.

983
00:46:44.230 --> 00:46:45.940
So when does it have to take place,

984
00:46:45.940 --> 00:46:48.750
in that you would be submitted on the same day?

985
00:46:48.750 --> 00:46:52.770
So the amendment and the inactivation need to be submitted

986
00:46:52.770 --> 00:46:54.930
as close as you can, to the same time.

987
00:46:54.930 --> 00:46:56.660
So that when we review both permit,

988
00:46:56.660 --> 00:46:58.210
we see, they're both in there.

989
00:46:58.210 --> 00:47:00.250
We know there's not gonna be duplicates,

990
00:47:00.250 --> 00:47:01.800
and then we'll issue them both.

991
00:47:03.590 --> 00:47:05.867
Are there any other questions?

992
00:47:07.170 --> 00:47:09.213
<v Deana>There aren't any other questions at this time.</v>

993
00:47:11.627 --> 00:47:12.980
Are we ready to continue?

994
00:47:12.980 --> 00:47:15.433
And Chris, we're ready when you are.

995
00:47:20.790 --> 00:47:21.623
<v ->Hey everyone.</v>

996
00:47:21.623 --> 00:47:25.460
My name is Chris Vincent and I am a GIS specialist,

997
00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:27.740
with the pipeline mapping team.

998
00:47:27.740 --> 00:47:30.350
And I am going to be to you all about,

999
00:47:30.350 --> 00:47:32.440
the mapping updates and how this new code,

1000
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:33.563
will affect that.

1001
00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:37.200
So a little overview,

1002
00:47:37.200 --> 00:47:38.800
we're going to be talking about,

1003
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:40.820
this new transfer merge function,

1004
00:47:40.820 --> 00:47:41.870
and how that affects,

1005
00:47:41.870 --> 00:47:44.310
how you're gonna prepare your shapefiles.

1006
00:47:44.310 --> 00:47:47.020
We also have created a new document.

1007
00:47:47.020 --> 00:47:50.380
I'm gonna go over that and also talking about,

1008
00:47:50.380 --> 00:47:53.690
some of the common mistakes we see on shapefile submissions

1009
00:47:53.690 --> 00:47:56.020
to address some of that,

1010
00:47:56.020 --> 00:47:58.363
and wrapping up with a little mapping demo.

1011
00:47:59.830 --> 00:48:01.900
So what is transfer merge?

1012
00:48:01.900 --> 00:48:04.290
Ryan was talking about this,

1013
00:48:04.290 --> 00:48:09.090
but it's basically a new way for the acquiring operator,

1014
00:48:09.090 --> 00:48:12.190
to acquire pipeline during a transfer.

1015
00:48:12.190 --> 00:48:14.710
So let's go over the similarities and differences here,

1016
00:48:14.710 --> 00:48:16.083
in the next few slides.

1017
00:48:17.970 --> 00:48:21.580
This is the new code that is in that new document,

1018
00:48:21.580 --> 00:48:23.450
a guide to shapefile submissions.

1019
00:48:23.450 --> 00:48:27.110
And this is basically saying, okay, transfer merge,

1020
00:48:27.110 --> 00:48:31.900
we're describing it as a full permit transfer plus a merge.

1021
00:48:31.900 --> 00:48:34.330
So if you can imagine as the acquiring operator,

1022
00:48:34.330 --> 00:48:37.120
you will take the entirety of somebody else's permit,

1023
00:48:37.120 --> 00:48:40.103
and then you'll drop it into one of your existing permits.

1024
00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:46.570
So these are the two functions that we're talking about,

1025
00:48:46.570 --> 00:48:49.530
in POPS the full transfer and the transfer merge.

1026
00:48:49.530 --> 00:48:50.660
So the full transfers,

1027
00:48:50.660 --> 00:48:53.500
is the old way to do a full transfer.

1028
00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:55.543
So similarities and differences.

1029
00:48:56.500 --> 00:48:59.440
The divesting side needs to file first,

1030
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:01.400
for both of these processes.

1031
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:03.590
Basically the divesting operator,

1032
00:49:03.590 --> 00:49:07.260
needs to go into POPS say, I'm getting rid of this permit.

1033
00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:10.140
Once the RRC approves the application,

1034
00:49:10.140 --> 00:49:12.400
the acquiring operator can go on,

1035
00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.893
and file either a full transfer or a transfer merge.

1036
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:19.930
So, as my colleagues were saying before,

1037
00:49:19.930 --> 00:49:22.790
this new rule makes you pay that renewal fee,

1038
00:49:22.790 --> 00:49:26.090
upon acquisition with the old transformer,

1039
00:49:26.090 --> 00:49:28.010
or the old full transfer, excuse me,

1040
00:49:28.010 --> 00:49:30.060
but with the new transfer merge,

1041
00:49:30.060 --> 00:49:33.240
you don't have to pay that renewal fee upon acquisition.

1042
00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:35.670
It'll just get set up with whenever your renewal,

1043
00:49:35.670 --> 00:49:37.310
is set for that permit,

1044
00:49:37.310 --> 00:49:39.210
that you're dropping those lines into.

1045
00:49:41.300 --> 00:49:44.450
So with the previous way, you could only do one at a time.

1046
00:49:44.450 --> 00:49:46.780
So you could only acquire one at a time,

1047
00:49:46.780 --> 00:49:47.980
with the transfer merge,

1048
00:49:47.980 --> 00:49:49.820
as long as you have discussed it,

1049
00:49:49.820 --> 00:49:52.040
with all of the divesting operators,

1050
00:49:52.040 --> 00:49:54.100
and they all get their work in, and we approve them,

1051
00:49:54.100 --> 00:49:56.933
you can acquire as many as you want at once.

1052
00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:02.780
Previously, neither operator had to submit mapping.

1053
00:50:02.780 --> 00:50:04.170
If you wanna do a full transfer,

1054
00:50:04.170 --> 00:50:06.710
neither operator will have to submit mapping,

1055
00:50:06.710 --> 00:50:08.570
because nothing is changing.

1056
00:50:08.570 --> 00:50:11.950
Basically we take this permit, we move it over here.

1057
00:50:11.950 --> 00:50:13.610
With the transfer merge,

1058
00:50:13.610 --> 00:50:15.920
the divesting operator doesn't need to submit mapping.

1059
00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:17.570
They don't care what happens to it.

1060
00:50:17.570 --> 00:50:20.160
The acquiring operator will need to submit mapping,

1061
00:50:20.160 --> 00:50:22.570
because their permit is changing,

1062
00:50:22.570 --> 00:50:24.940
with geometry and with attributes.

1063
00:50:24.940 --> 00:50:28.060
So we will wanna see shapefiles on the acquiring side,

1064
00:50:28.060 --> 00:50:29.233
for a transfer merge.

1065
00:50:31.330 --> 00:50:34.540
Lastly, the full transfer, the old way,

1066
00:50:34.540 --> 00:50:37.160
you will keep the permit number as Ryan mentioned.

1067
00:50:37.160 --> 00:50:39.070
So you can hang on to that.

1068
00:50:39.070 --> 00:50:42.670
With this new transfer merge, the old permit number,

1069
00:50:42.670 --> 00:50:45.710
gets it gets inactivated automatically,

1070
00:50:45.710 --> 00:50:47.690
and the acquiring operator will choose,

1071
00:50:47.690 --> 00:50:50.273
one of their own permits to keep those lines in.

1072
00:50:52.450 --> 00:50:54.860
Alright, so a little visual example,

1073
00:50:54.860 --> 00:50:57.530
between these two POPS processes.

1074
00:50:57.530 --> 00:51:00.890
Here, we have the original full transfer method.

1075
00:51:00.890 --> 00:51:03.990
You can see, we have two fictional operators here.

1076
00:51:03.990 --> 00:51:05.680
And in this scenario,

1077
00:51:05.680 --> 00:51:09.560
Rattlesnake Operators is taking over a full permit,

1078
00:51:09.560 --> 00:51:11.290
from Eagle Operators.

1079
00:51:11.290 --> 00:51:13.020
So Eagle goes on to POPS,

1080
00:51:13.020 --> 00:51:16.730
they file their divesting transfer, we approve it.

1081
00:51:16.730 --> 00:51:21.730
And then Rattlesnake can then acquire that permit in full.

1082
00:51:21.820 --> 00:51:24.250
And you can see here that the permit number,

1083
00:51:24.250 --> 00:51:26.880
will stay the same in that scenario.

1084
00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:28.790
And you can also notice that Rattlesnake,

1085
00:51:28.790 --> 00:51:30.453
can only acquire one at a time.

1086
00:51:32.090 --> 00:51:34.560
So with this new transfer merge function,

1087
00:51:34.560 --> 00:51:37.370
Rattlesnake decides they don't wanna do it one at a time,

1088
00:51:37.370 --> 00:51:40.760
they want to get a bunch of full transfers at once.

1089
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:44.990
So they talked to Eagle, Havoline and Gator operators,

1090
00:51:44.990 --> 00:51:48.350
and they get them all to submit their divesting transfers.

1091
00:51:48.350 --> 00:51:51.250
And once the RRC approves, all of their transfers,

1092
00:51:51.250 --> 00:51:54.120
Rattlesnake goes on to POPS and they can see, okay,

1093
00:51:54.120 --> 00:51:57.020
I have these three options I want all of them,

1094
00:51:57.020 --> 00:52:00.100
and I'm gonna dump them into one of my own permits here.

1095
00:52:00.100 --> 00:52:01.640
And the new permit number will be,

1096
00:52:01.640 --> 00:52:03.193
whatever permit they choose.

1097
00:52:06.830 --> 00:52:09.913
So why use this new code?

1098
00:52:11.070 --> 00:52:12.510
First of all, as we mentioned before,

1099
00:52:12.510 --> 00:52:16.540
you can do more multiple at once, so that is helpful.

1100
00:52:16.540 --> 00:52:21.040
It also can turn a two step process into a one step process,

1101
00:52:21.040 --> 00:52:24.180
basically before if you were doing a full transfer,

1102
00:52:24.180 --> 00:52:25.790
and you wanted those lines to end up,

1103
00:52:25.790 --> 00:52:27.790
in one of your own permits,

1104
00:52:27.790 --> 00:52:31.990
you would have need to file two applications on POPS first,

1105
00:52:31.990 --> 00:52:35.740
the transfer, and then the amendment.

1106
00:52:35.740 --> 00:52:39.900
So this changes that all into one process.

1107
00:52:39.900 --> 00:52:41.780
And then of course, you get to avoid paying,

1108
00:52:41.780 --> 00:52:44.000
that pesky renewal fee upon acquisition,

1109
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.533
which is what the renewal will set you up to do.

1110
00:52:49.770 --> 00:52:52.260
So we have a new document.

1111
00:52:52.260 --> 00:52:55.360
Like I mentioned, y'all, who've been here a while,

1112
00:52:55.360 --> 00:53:00.320
might recognize its old name, TPMS attribute, definitions,

1113
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:03.650
valid codes, and digital projection requirements.

1114
00:53:03.650 --> 00:53:06.980
It's quite a mouthful, so we have shortened it,

1115
00:53:06.980 --> 00:53:10.160
it's now called a guide to shapefiles submissions.

1116
00:53:10.160 --> 00:53:14.220
And this is basically your catch-all how to guide,

1117
00:53:14.220 --> 00:53:18.200
for all of the roles we have for our shapefiles submissions.

1118
00:53:18.200 --> 00:53:21.110
And there are a lot of them, so it's very detailed,

1119
00:53:21.110 --> 00:53:25.140
we try to break it down and make it a little more clear.

1120
00:53:25.140 --> 00:53:28.860
So main differences that we added to this new documents.

1121
00:53:28.860 --> 00:53:31.350
This new code is now in there.

1122
00:53:31.350 --> 00:53:33.130
We shoveled around the information,

1123
00:53:33.130 --> 00:53:35.760
and brought the more pertinent stuff to the front,

1124
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:40.490
and reformatted, the old tables and the field descriptions.

1125
00:53:40.490 --> 00:53:43.010
And our hope is that it's just gonna be a little more clear,

1126
00:53:43.010 --> 00:53:45.390
and that we're gonna cut down on some of the errors,

1127
00:53:45.390 --> 00:53:47.423
and the common errors that we're seeing.

1128
00:53:48.580 --> 00:53:53.323
So that segues me into the common mistakes that we see.

1129
00:53:54.890 --> 00:53:58.110
I'm going to show you the top three that I see,

1130
00:53:58.110 --> 00:54:00.730
and then pop over to that document to show you,

1131
00:54:00.730 --> 00:54:02.193
where we're addressing that.

1132
00:54:03.460 --> 00:54:05.570
So I'd say main three things,

1133
00:54:05.570 --> 00:54:07.840
that the shapefile doesn't contain,

1134
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:09.360
all of the required fields.

1135
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:12.220
So there are at least 15 required fields,

1136
00:54:12.220 --> 00:54:13.900
for all shapefile submission.

1137
00:54:13.900 --> 00:54:16.630
Oftentimes the shapefile are just not,

1138
00:54:16.630 --> 00:54:19.400
they don't have all of those fields in there.

1139
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:22.470
We also see invalid entries in the attribute table.

1140
00:54:22.470 --> 00:54:25.840
So this could be like a field has the incorrect data type,

1141
00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:28.880
or the character limit isn't correct.

1142
00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:32.310
Or there are lowercase characters in the shapefile,

1143
00:54:32.310 --> 00:54:34.210
or just that the value isn't accurate.

1144
00:54:35.340 --> 00:54:38.660
And lastly, the row that it's in the wrong projection.

1145
00:54:38.660 --> 00:54:43.563
So let's pop over to this new documents here it is,

1146
00:54:44.830 --> 00:54:47.040
here we linked to our rules.

1147
00:54:47.040 --> 00:54:50.580
We brought some kind of important things to remember,

1148
00:54:50.580 --> 00:54:51.433
up here.

1149
00:54:52.579 --> 00:54:55.620
This is a overview, it's broken out into three sections.

1150
00:54:55.620 --> 00:54:57.410
So first coordinate systems,

1151
00:54:57.410 --> 00:55:00.180
second, those 15 required fields.

1152
00:55:00.180 --> 00:55:03.310
And lastly, potentially some additional fields,

1153
00:55:03.310 --> 00:55:06.480
if necessary, if your lines meet certain criteria,

1154
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:09.580
and I will go over that later.

1155
00:55:09.580 --> 00:55:11.353
So first coordinate systems,

1156
00:55:12.420 --> 00:55:16.180
when you submit a shapefile to us, it needs to be using,

1157
00:55:16.180 --> 00:55:19.360
one of two geographic coordinate systems,

1158
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:23.990
North American Datum 1927 or 1983.

1159
00:55:23.990 --> 00:55:27.700
We do not accept projected shapefiles,

1160
00:55:27.700 --> 00:55:30.580
side note that we do reproject them.

1161
00:55:30.580 --> 00:55:33.790
So when you submit them and we approve them,

1162
00:55:33.790 --> 00:55:35.570
we will reproject it.

1163
00:55:35.570 --> 00:55:37.910
And we will put it into a projected coordinate system,

1164
00:55:37.910 --> 00:55:40.770
called Texas Statewide Mapping System.

1165
00:55:40.770 --> 00:55:43.420
That's how we calculate your mileage.

1166
00:55:43.420 --> 00:55:46.430
And that is the coordinate system that's being used,

1167
00:55:46.430 --> 00:55:48.610
on the pilot GIS viewer.

1168
00:55:48.610 --> 00:55:51.200
And also if you ever received shapefile from us,

1169
00:55:51.200 --> 00:55:54.020
that's the coordinate system it's going to using,

1170
00:55:54.020 --> 00:55:55.450
but when you submit it to us,

1171
00:55:55.450 --> 00:55:57.090
make sure that it's, unprojected,

1172
00:55:57.090 --> 00:55:59.793
using one of these two geographic coordinate systems.

1173
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:04.530
The second section, these 15 required fields here,

1174
00:56:04.530 --> 00:56:05.833
they are numbered out.

1175
00:56:06.740 --> 00:56:09.960
Make sure that you can see they're all capitalized.

1176
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:11.970
Make sure they're all spelled correctly,

1177
00:56:11.970 --> 00:56:14.100
just as you see here,

1178
00:56:14.100 --> 00:56:17.030
make sure the data type and character limit is correct.

1179
00:56:17.030 --> 00:56:21.020
And note print for each field.

1180
00:56:21.020 --> 00:56:23.820
And it's super important that you just pay close attention

1181
00:56:23.820 --> 00:56:26.230
to that because our system is very picky.

1182
00:56:26.230 --> 00:56:28.130
And even if you have like,

1183
00:56:28.130 --> 00:56:30.863
if this was a six instead of a five or a character limit,

1184
00:56:30.863 --> 00:56:32.450
they would get rejected.

1185
00:56:32.450 --> 00:56:36.543
So I would recommend having like a template shapefile,

1186
00:56:36.543 --> 00:56:38.660
that you use, if you do this a lot,

1187
00:56:38.660 --> 00:56:41.710
just so that you don't get tripped up,

1188
00:56:41.710 --> 00:56:43.610
and you don't have to do this a bunch of times,

1189
00:56:43.610 --> 00:56:44.633
over and over again.

1190
00:56:45.980 --> 00:56:49.550
The last thing I talked about for a common mistake,

1191
00:56:49.550 --> 00:56:51.370
we see a lot is accuracy.

1192
00:56:51.370 --> 00:56:55.253
So I'm gonna scroll down to the diameter field,

1193
00:56:56.980 --> 00:57:00.500
here basically we have a table of accepted values.

1194
00:57:00.500 --> 00:57:03.010
So if your pipeline is less,

1195
00:57:03.010 --> 00:57:05.560
is 12 inches or less in thickness.

1196
00:57:05.560 --> 00:57:08.130
We want you to use the outside diameter.

1197
00:57:08.130 --> 00:57:11.550
So these values are the valid values,

1198
00:57:11.550 --> 00:57:13.770
that we wanna see in the shapefile.

1199
00:57:13.770 --> 00:57:18.300
If you put like 3.5, six, seven, or something,

1200
00:57:18.300 --> 00:57:21.650
it's not accurate, it has to match exactly to this table.

1201
00:57:21.650 --> 00:57:25.533
So make sure you're using directly from this table.

1202
00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:29.170
Another example would be the commodity field.

1203
00:57:29.170 --> 00:57:31.810
This is the field we use to express,

1204
00:57:31.810 --> 00:57:34.630
what primary commodity is in a line.

1205
00:57:34.630 --> 00:57:37.860
So it's usually a two or three digit code.

1206
00:57:37.860 --> 00:57:41.580
And one example of an inaccurate response would be,

1207
00:57:41.580 --> 00:57:45.350
you just put NG instead of NGT or NGG,

1208
00:57:45.350 --> 00:57:48.610
we don't know if it's transmission or gathering.

1209
00:57:48.610 --> 00:57:50.510
So just make sure whatever values,

1210
00:57:50.510 --> 00:57:51.770
you're putting in your shapefile,

1211
00:57:51.770 --> 00:57:54.520
you're following this guideline to a T,

1212
00:57:54.520 --> 00:57:56.513
and you're only using what's in here.

1213
00:57:59.900 --> 00:58:01.190
A few other mistakes,

1214
00:58:01.190 --> 00:58:03.910
a incomplete cover letter or overview maps.

1215
00:58:03.910 --> 00:58:07.010
So basically just not enough information.

1216
00:58:07.010 --> 00:58:09.230
So say you're doing a transfer,

1217
00:58:09.230 --> 00:58:10.550
and you're writing in the cover letter.

1218
00:58:10.550 --> 00:58:11.930
Hey, we're transferring some lines,

1219
00:58:11.930 --> 00:58:15.960
but you don't tell us how many miles are being transferred

1220
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:17.690
or what operator they're coming from,

1221
00:58:17.690 --> 00:58:19.960
or what permit it's coming from.

1222
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:22.580
Just make sure you're putting a full picture in there,

1223
00:58:22.580 --> 00:58:23.910
for us.

1224
00:58:23.910 --> 00:58:25.450
And I have an example.

1225
00:58:25.450 --> 00:58:27.190
I'll talk about later kind of like,

1226
00:58:27.190 --> 00:58:30.350
the main things we wanna see in a cover letter.

1227
00:58:30.350 --> 00:58:31.600
And also with the overview map,

1228
00:58:31.600 --> 00:58:34.210
just make sure it shows the complete permit,

1229
00:58:34.210 --> 00:58:35.720
including abandoned lines.

1230
00:58:35.720 --> 00:58:38.933
We just wanna see the permit in its entirety and clearly.

1231
00:58:41.200 --> 00:58:45.710
Another thing we see often is that shapefiles,

1232
00:58:45.710 --> 00:58:49.120
that are submitted do not include all of the lines.

1233
00:58:49.120 --> 00:58:51.220
So say you're doing a pipeline addition,

1234
00:58:51.220 --> 00:58:52.810
and you submit a shapefile,

1235
00:58:52.810 --> 00:58:56.740
but you only include the new lines in the shapefile.

1236
00:58:56.740 --> 00:58:58.580
Basically when you submit a shapefile,

1237
00:58:58.580 --> 00:59:00.510
it's gonna override everything we have.

1238
00:59:00.510 --> 00:59:03.340
So make sure that the new and existing lines,

1239
00:59:03.340 --> 00:59:05.057
are in the shapefile,

1240
00:59:05.057 --> 00:59:07.793
and that it basically shows the updated permit.

1241
00:59:10.570 --> 00:59:12.110
This is a good time to note that,

1242
00:59:12.110 --> 00:59:14.660
you should always include abandoned lines,

1243
00:59:14.660 --> 00:59:16.590
in every future submission.

1244
00:59:16.590 --> 00:59:19.620
So even if you abandon it, according to our rules,

1245
00:59:19.620 --> 00:59:20.810
five years ago,

1246
00:59:20.810 --> 00:59:24.233
we wanna see those continue to show up in the submission,

1247
00:59:24.233 --> 00:59:26.763
so that we don't lose record of those lines.

1248
00:59:28.670 --> 00:59:32.690
Lastly, so people,

1249
00:59:32.690 --> 00:59:35.510
the operators will often request data from us,

1250
00:59:35.510 --> 00:59:37.200
we'll request their mapping.

1251
00:59:37.200 --> 00:59:40.820
And oftentimes they'll just kind of take that shapefile,

1252
00:59:40.820 --> 00:59:42.230
turn around and put it back on pulse,

1253
00:59:42.230 --> 00:59:43.940
without making any edits.

1254
00:59:43.940 --> 00:59:45.230
That's something we see a lot too.

1255
00:59:45.230 --> 00:59:47.270
There are a few things that you'll need to change,

1256
00:59:47.270 --> 00:59:50.020
before you can use the data we send you.

1257
00:59:50.020 --> 00:59:53.310
Main things, being any to reproject it.

1258
00:59:53.310 --> 00:59:55.453
It uses that projected coordinate system,

1259
00:59:55.453 --> 00:59:56.857
I was talking about earlier,

1260
00:59:56.857 --> 00:59:59.560
and that you'll need to add a couple fields,

1261
00:59:59.560 --> 01:00:02.080
these two fields, to make sure that you meet,

1262
01:00:02.080 --> 01:00:04.253
that minimum 15 required fields.

1263
01:00:05.310 --> 01:00:07.730
I'm not gonna go too in depth about this, actually,

1264
01:00:07.730 --> 01:00:11.690
because my team just wrote a script that will reproject,

1265
01:00:11.690 --> 01:00:13.350
and add these fields automatically,

1266
01:00:13.350 --> 01:00:16.180
before we send out data to operators.

1267
01:00:16.180 --> 01:00:17.870
So hopefully it shouldn't be an issue,

1268
01:00:17.870 --> 01:00:20.890
but just always make sure to check the projection,

1269
01:00:20.890 --> 01:00:22.670
check that it has all its fields,

1270
01:00:22.670 --> 01:00:24.730
and use that guide shapefile submissions,

1271
01:00:24.730 --> 01:00:25.833
to help you out there.

1272
01:00:28.020 --> 01:00:31.370
In addition, it's possible that you will need to add,

1273
01:00:31.370 --> 01:00:32.950
a couple extra fields.

1274
01:00:32.950 --> 01:00:35.880
If you're lines meet certain criteria,

1275
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:38.210
these fields are SMYS and USA,

1276
01:00:38.210 --> 01:00:40.590
and they throw people off a lot.

1277
01:00:40.590 --> 01:00:41.680
And it's understandable.

1278
01:00:41.680 --> 01:00:44.900
They're kind of confusing because they're only required,

1279
01:00:44.900 --> 01:00:48.340
when your lines are liquid gathering lines,

1280
01:00:48.340 --> 01:00:50.790
and they're between six and eight inches.

1281
01:00:50.790 --> 01:00:52.500
Basically our rules say,

1282
01:00:52.500 --> 01:00:54.360
if you have a liquid gathering line,

1283
01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:57.350
it's between six and eight inches, it might be regulated.

1284
01:00:57.350 --> 01:01:00.003
So we need more information to determine that.

1285
01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:03.680
So let's pop back over,

1286
01:01:03.680 --> 01:01:05.650
to the guide to shapefile submissions.

1287
01:01:05.650 --> 01:01:07.210
And I'm gonna show you,

1288
01:01:07.210 --> 01:01:09.550
if you remember all the way at the bottom,

1289
01:01:09.550 --> 01:01:11.320
there was a third section,

1290
01:01:11.320 --> 01:01:13.340
called additional fields if necessary.

1291
01:01:13.340 --> 01:01:15.833
So these are the two fields USA and SMYS.

1292
01:01:17.120 --> 01:01:21.630
And basically if you were,

1293
01:01:21.630 --> 01:01:25.260
if your line is in an unusually sensitive area,

1294
01:01:25.260 --> 01:01:28.020
and the SMYS is greater than 20%,

1295
01:01:28.020 --> 01:01:30.180
then your line is regulated.

1296
01:01:30.180 --> 01:01:33.760
If both of those are not true, then it's not regulated.

1297
01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:36.180
You just need to make sure you include that information,

1298
01:01:36.180 --> 01:01:37.480
so you can determine that.

1299
01:01:38.720 --> 01:01:41.500
And if this is just making your brain fuzz over,

1300
01:01:41.500 --> 01:01:43.560
all this talk about regulated pipelines,

1301
01:01:43.560 --> 01:01:47.700
I'm scrolling up to our Texas reg field.

1302
01:01:47.700 --> 01:01:51.130
This is something we also updated this field basically says,

1303
01:01:51.130 --> 01:01:54.030
is your line regulated yes or no.

1304
01:01:54.030 --> 01:01:57.304
And we put some new logic tables in here,

1305
01:01:57.304 --> 01:02:01.610
and you should be able to use the information,

1306
01:02:01.610 --> 01:02:05.130
in your shapefile to determine line by line,

1307
01:02:05.130 --> 01:02:06.870
if it's regulated or not.

1308
01:02:06.870 --> 01:02:10.460
So here's all the logic here, definitely take a look.

1309
01:02:10.460 --> 01:02:13.410
If you have any confusion, definitely reach out to us,

1310
01:02:13.410 --> 01:02:16.330
or we also appreciate feedback on this.

1311
01:02:16.330 --> 01:02:17.680
Let us know what you think.

1312
01:02:20.720 --> 01:02:23.450
Lastly, I'm gonna pop over to Arc map,

1313
01:02:23.450 --> 01:02:26.190
to talk about another field

1314
01:02:26.190 --> 01:02:31.160
called the T4_AMD field or the T4 amendment field.

1315
01:02:31.160 --> 01:02:33.410
And I'm gonna talk about how we're gonna assign

1316
01:02:33.410 --> 01:02:35.083
that new TM code.

1317
01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:40.940
Okay so here we are in an Arc map,

1318
01:02:40.940 --> 01:02:43.100
I wanted to show you guys a couple of examples,

1319
01:02:43.100 --> 01:02:45.330
of shapefiles submissions.

1320
01:02:45.330 --> 01:02:47.140
What looks like a good shapefile submission,

1321
01:02:47.140 --> 01:02:49.360
what make it not look so good,

1322
01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:51.670
and kind of go through all these fields,

1323
01:02:51.670 --> 01:02:53.770
and go over that with you guys.

1324
01:02:53.770 --> 01:02:57.390
So here we are out in West Texas,

1325
01:02:57.390 --> 01:03:02.390
and we have Rattlesnake operators out here,

1326
01:03:03.550 --> 01:03:04.910
with this permits,

1327
01:03:04.910 --> 01:03:09.300
and they have just submitted an amendment on POPS,

1328
01:03:09.300 --> 01:03:12.310
and I'm reading their cover letter and they say, okay,

1329
01:03:12.310 --> 01:03:13.620
we have some new line,

1330
01:03:13.620 --> 01:03:16.940
and we're also trying to abandon some of our line.

1331
01:03:16.940 --> 01:03:18.670
So here's the shapefile we're submitting,

1332
01:03:18.670 --> 01:03:20.370
let us know what you think.

1333
01:03:20.370 --> 01:03:22.880
So let's check it out, first things first,

1334
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.590
let's check coordinate system.

1335
01:03:25.590 --> 01:03:29.210
We want it to be unprojected and it is,

1336
01:03:29.210 --> 01:03:33.690
we can see it is using NAD 1983,

1337
01:03:33.690 --> 01:03:35.513
and it is not projected perfect.

1338
01:03:36.840 --> 01:03:39.070
So let's open up the attribute table,

1339
01:03:39.070 --> 01:03:41.397
for this amendment shapefile.

1340
01:03:42.650 --> 01:03:45.320
And here are all of our fields.

1341
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:48.070
So let me just go through each of them with you guys,

1342
01:03:48.070 --> 01:03:49.920
you can see they're all capitalized.

1343
01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:52.530
We don't see any lowercase characters anywhere,

1344
01:03:52.530 --> 01:03:55.130
in the shapefile, we don't see any negative numbers.

1345
01:03:56.360 --> 01:03:59.313
So starting here our T4 permanent field.

1346
01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:04.060
So this is your T4 permit number.

1347
01:04:04.060 --> 01:04:07.620
It should only ever have one value.

1348
01:04:07.620 --> 01:04:10.210
If you're submitting your amendment,

1349
01:04:10.210 --> 01:04:13.030
to permit one, two, three, four, five,

1350
01:04:13.030 --> 01:04:14.400
then the T4 permit number,

1351
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:17.140
should always just have that one value.

1352
01:04:17.140 --> 01:04:18.670
Even if you're transferring lines,

1353
01:04:18.670 --> 01:04:20.520
from a different permit, number,

1354
01:04:20.520 --> 01:04:21.980
those lines still need to be coded,

1355
01:04:21.980 --> 01:04:23.490
with the keeper permit number.

1356
01:04:23.490 --> 01:04:26.590
So that will only ever be one value in that field.

1357
01:04:26.590 --> 01:04:29.673
Same goes for the operator number the T5 number.

1358
01:04:32.130 --> 01:04:35.750
System, name, subsystem name, and P line ID.

1359
01:04:35.750 --> 01:04:39.860
These three fields here are assigned by the operator,

1360
01:04:39.860 --> 01:04:44.810
and it is kind of your way to assign a naming convention,

1361
01:04:44.810 --> 01:04:46.440
to your lines.

1362
01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:49.500
I would recommend setting up a scheme,

1363
01:04:49.500 --> 01:04:52.080
that works for all of your permits within a P5,

1364
01:04:52.080 --> 01:04:54.540
so that it's just, it's easier to keep track of,

1365
01:04:54.540 --> 01:04:57.450
and you know exactly what lines we're talking about.

1366
01:04:57.450 --> 01:05:01.810
So generally it follows a hierarchical kind of theme,

1367
01:05:01.810 --> 01:05:05.180
here with the most vague being system name,

1368
01:05:05.180 --> 01:05:08.330
and the most granular being the key line ID.

1369
01:05:08.330 --> 01:05:10.580
So here you see that they've said, okay,

1370
01:05:10.580 --> 01:05:13.900
this entire permit is called Rattlesnake pipeline system,

1371
01:05:13.900 --> 01:05:15.990
pretty vague, but in subsystem name,

1372
01:05:15.990 --> 01:05:17.490
they're breaking it down a bit more,

1373
01:05:17.490 --> 01:05:19.620
into laterals and trunk lines.

1374
01:05:19.620 --> 01:05:21.490
And then in the P line ID field,

1375
01:05:21.490 --> 01:05:23.940
they're actually breaking it out line by line,

1376
01:05:23.940 --> 01:05:27.280
so that each line has a unique identifier.

1377
01:05:27.280 --> 01:05:29.510
So again, this is all up to y'all,

1378
01:05:29.510 --> 01:05:31.253
how you wanna name your pipelines.

1379
01:05:32.770 --> 01:05:35.470
Diameter field, we looked at that chart before,

1380
01:05:35.470 --> 01:05:37.560
and these values are all in that chart.

1381
01:05:37.560 --> 01:05:41.060
So this looks accurate commodity.

1382
01:05:41.060 --> 01:05:42.950
Again, this looks good.

1383
01:05:42.950 --> 01:05:44.090
These are valid codes.

1384
01:05:44.090 --> 01:05:47.160
This is a crude oil gap, that has crude oil transmission,

1385
01:05:47.160 --> 01:05:49.040
and this is crude oil gathering.

1386
01:05:49.040 --> 01:05:51.930
That's fine for them to be combined in the same permits.

1387
01:05:51.930 --> 01:05:56.290
We never want to see liquid and gas combined in this field.

1388
01:05:56.290 --> 01:05:57.830
Same goes for interstate.

1389
01:05:57.830 --> 01:06:00.500
We don't ever wanna see an inter or intrastate line,

1390
01:06:00.500 --> 01:06:01.450
in the same permit.

1391
01:06:03.400 --> 01:06:04.310
Status field.

1392
01:06:04.310 --> 01:06:09.023
This tells me is your line active A or B abandoned?

1393
01:06:10.150 --> 01:06:12.450
Quality CD is the quality of your data,

1394
01:06:12.450 --> 01:06:14.763
so how close is it to real world?

1395
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.480
Loc des is the class location,

1396
01:06:18.480 --> 01:06:22.050
so for liquid lines, it's either rural or non rural.

1397
01:06:22.050 --> 01:06:24.750
And they're telling us that all these lines are rural,

1398
01:06:25.980 --> 01:06:27.250
Texas reg,

1399
01:06:27.250 --> 01:06:30.490
this is the regulatory field like I explained before.

1400
01:06:30.490 --> 01:06:34.170
So they're saying basically this line is regulated,

1401
01:06:34.170 --> 01:06:36.020
and the rest of them are not.

1402
01:06:36.020 --> 01:06:38.420
So as you guys know, this is something,

1403
01:06:38.420 --> 01:06:41.490
that you have to assign yourself using those logic tables.

1404
01:06:41.490 --> 01:06:45.230
So how did they decide this was regulated?

1405
01:06:45.230 --> 01:06:47.030
Well, let's look, this is a transmission line.

1406
01:06:47.030 --> 01:06:49.350
We know all transmission lines are regulated.

1407
01:06:49.350 --> 01:06:50.770
So that makes sense.

1408
01:06:50.770 --> 01:06:54.090
This is also a transmission line, why is it not regulated?

1409
01:06:54.090 --> 01:06:55.320
Because it's abandoned.

1410
01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:57.423
We do not inspect abandoned lines.

1411
01:06:58.570 --> 01:07:02.120
And these are not regulated because they're gathering lines

1412
01:07:02.120 --> 01:07:04.740
and they do not meet that diameter criteria.

1413
01:07:04.740 --> 01:07:07.240
So there's no possibility that they are regulated.

1414
01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:12.670
Okay SYS ID and PLS system name,

1415
01:07:12.670 --> 01:07:17.670
these two fields are required for any regulated line.

1416
01:07:18.890 --> 01:07:21.220
So if you have an existing regulated line,

1417
01:07:21.220 --> 01:07:24.040
there will be a system ID and system name,

1418
01:07:24.040 --> 01:07:25.980
associated with that line.

1419
01:07:25.980 --> 01:07:29.560
An exception would be if you're adding a new line,

1420
01:07:29.560 --> 01:07:31.940
and we don't have record of it before,

1421
01:07:31.940 --> 01:07:35.050
there will not be an existing system name or ID,

1422
01:07:35.050 --> 01:07:38.100
but if you've had this line in your permit,

1423
01:07:38.100 --> 01:07:40.180
then there will be a system associated with it,

1424
01:07:40.180 --> 01:07:42.470
and you'll need to figure what that is,

1425
01:07:42.470 --> 01:07:45.020
and populate that in the shapefile.

1426
01:07:45.020 --> 01:07:49.110
A little context, this system ID and name refers to,

1427
01:07:49.110 --> 01:07:51.980
a separate database, it's our inspectors database.

1428
01:07:51.980 --> 01:07:55.040
It's what they use to go out and do their site inspections.

1429
01:07:55.040 --> 01:07:58.010
And these two fields help us to connect those two databases.

1430
01:07:58.010 --> 01:08:01.820
So really important that we keep that up-to-date.

1431
01:08:01.820 --> 01:08:03.770
If this is all new to you,

1432
01:08:03.770 --> 01:08:05.710
and you have no idea what I'm talking about,

1433
01:08:05.710 --> 01:08:09.720
then that's okay, I'll show you in this document,

1434
01:08:09.720 --> 01:08:12.960
where you can find that information yourself.

1435
01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:15.140
So here's the system ID field.

1436
01:08:15.140 --> 01:08:18.370
You can see it says required for all regulated line.

1437
01:08:18.370 --> 01:08:21.520
Find the list here online pipeline website,

1438
01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:23.200
and you can find it there,

1439
01:08:23.200 --> 01:08:25.173
and you can search by permit number.

1440
01:08:28.050 --> 01:08:28.983
Okay cool.

1441
01:08:30.310 --> 01:08:31.320
All right, last field.

1442
01:08:31.320 --> 01:08:33.230
And this is the really important one,

1443
01:08:33.230 --> 01:08:34.980
that I wanted to talk to you guys about.

1444
01:08:34.980 --> 01:08:37.440
So the T4 and then it field,

1445
01:08:37.440 --> 01:08:41.850
this is a field that you guys use to tell us line by line

1446
01:08:41.850 --> 01:08:45.050
what you want us to do on your amendment.

1447
01:08:45.050 --> 01:08:49.790
So NC here stands for no change.

1448
01:08:49.790 --> 01:08:51.880
So basically Rattlesnake is saying,

1449
01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:54.460
hey, these lines are existing, don't touch them,

1450
01:08:54.460 --> 01:08:57.710
don't do anything to them, okay, we'll leave them.

1451
01:08:57.710 --> 01:09:00.673
So NC is for your existing lines.

1452
01:09:03.220 --> 01:09:05.640
PA that stands for pipeline addition.

1453
01:09:05.640 --> 01:09:08.800
So this is, this must be what that little new segment,

1454
01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:10.377
that they were talking about.

1455
01:09:10.377 --> 01:09:14.060
And here BP stands for abandoned in place.

1456
01:09:14.060 --> 01:09:14.900
So they're saying,

1457
01:09:14.900 --> 01:09:18.360
I want to abandon this line and you can see right here,

1458
01:09:18.360 --> 01:09:20.700
that they have also marked it as abandoned,

1459
01:09:20.700 --> 01:09:22.849
in the shapefile.

1460
01:09:22.849 --> 01:09:24.243
So perfect.

1461
01:09:25.170 --> 01:09:27.240
This looks good I would pass the shapefile,

1462
01:09:27.240 --> 01:09:30.490
everything looks good to me.

1463
01:09:30.490 --> 01:09:35.230
Just to show you one more thing, just about the data type.

1464
01:09:35.230 --> 01:09:36.760
Again, we can see this, correct,

1465
01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:39.160
it's a string and its length of five,

1466
01:09:39.160 --> 01:09:41.250
that's correct for this field.

1467
01:09:41.250 --> 01:09:43.513
So again, just close attention to that.

1468
01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:45.513
Okay, cool.

1469
01:09:46.354 --> 01:09:49.520
So I just, my first example, my last example,

1470
01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:52.950
I wanted to talk about partial transfers,

1471
01:09:52.950 --> 01:09:54.640
and the mapping for partial transfers.

1472
01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:57.740
It's one of the more complicated ones.

1473
01:09:57.740 --> 01:10:00.520
So I wanted to give you guys that example.

1474
01:10:00.520 --> 01:10:04.009
So, okay, so we have Rattlesnake out here,

1475
01:10:04.009 --> 01:10:07.800
and they have had their eyes on,

1476
01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:10.030
some of these lines over here for a while.

1477
01:10:10.030 --> 01:10:13.200
This is Havoline operators, neighboring pipeline,

1478
01:10:13.200 --> 01:10:16.220
and Rattlesnake, and Havoline get together,

1479
01:10:16.220 --> 01:10:19.110
and they decide they wanna do a partial transfer.

1480
01:10:19.110 --> 01:10:23.630
So they know that they both need to submit shapefiles,

1481
01:10:23.630 --> 01:10:26.930
they both need to submit mapping for a partial transfer.

1482
01:10:26.930 --> 01:10:30.433
That's because the mapping is changing for both of them.

1483
01:10:30.433 --> 01:10:33.200
For Havoline they're gonna get rid of some of their lines

1484
01:10:33.200 --> 01:10:34.730
for Rattlesnake, they're gonna add them.

1485
01:10:34.730 --> 01:10:36.470
So the geometry is changing,

1486
01:10:36.470 --> 01:10:38.623
so we need mapping for both sides.

1487
01:10:40.210 --> 01:10:44.730
With a partial transfer, the main thing is that,

1488
01:10:44.730 --> 01:10:49.070
the transfer lines should exist in both shapefiles,

1489
01:10:49.070 --> 01:10:51.980
the acquiring and divesting, and they should be identical,

1490
01:10:51.980 --> 01:10:56.050
and they should both be coded with the T4 minute code PT

1491
01:10:56.050 --> 01:10:57.263
for partial transfer.

1492
01:10:58.650 --> 01:10:59.940
So, okay, cool.

1493
01:10:59.940 --> 01:11:02.660
So this is Rattlesnakes old permit,

1494
01:11:02.660 --> 01:11:04.070
they wanted to add some new,

1495
01:11:04.070 --> 01:11:06.790
so let's look at their mapping that they submitted,

1496
01:11:06.790 --> 01:11:09.853
as the acquiring operator in this transfer.

1497
01:11:11.046 --> 01:11:12.690
Okay this is new, right,

1498
01:11:12.690 --> 01:11:15.150
if we look at the old one, this is a new line.

1499
01:11:15.150 --> 01:11:17.040
So this must be the transfer line,

1500
01:11:17.040 --> 01:11:19.860
and the rest must be the existing stuff.

1501
01:11:19.860 --> 01:11:22.393
So let's confirm and see if that's correct,

1502
01:11:23.580 --> 01:11:27.710
select the lines and open the correct address table.

1503
01:11:31.210 --> 01:11:36.080
And if we go over to the T4 amendment field, we see yes,

1504
01:11:36.080 --> 01:11:40.130
that all of the lines that are coded as PT in the shapefile

1505
01:11:40.130 --> 01:11:41.740
are the lines that are new.

1506
01:11:41.740 --> 01:11:44.040
The ones that we assume to be a transfer,

1507
01:11:44.040 --> 01:11:47.580
and the rest is coded as NC for no change.

1508
01:11:47.580 --> 01:11:49.480
And that's perfect cause we know already,

1509
01:11:49.480 --> 01:11:53.260
this is their existing permit, nothing's changing here.

1510
01:11:53.260 --> 01:11:58.260
Great, so we want to see now and check the divesting side,

1511
01:11:59.120 --> 01:12:01.590
and see that these lines are identical,

1512
01:12:01.590 --> 01:12:03.593
in the divesting mapping as well.

1513
01:12:08.810 --> 01:12:11.770
All right so here we go.

1514
01:12:11.770 --> 01:12:14.193
Let's select the partial transfer lines.

1515
01:12:17.040 --> 01:12:19.010
Perfect, they match.

1516
01:12:19.010 --> 01:12:22.480
We can see between permits, it is the same exact lines,

1517
01:12:22.480 --> 01:12:27.480
attributionally they should be identical, and they are,

1518
01:12:27.510 --> 01:12:31.270
one thing I wanted to point out is,

1519
01:12:31.270 --> 01:12:34.400
if you notice these two fields hanging out here,

1520
01:12:34.400 --> 01:12:37.250
these were the ones we were talking about, SYS and USA.

1521
01:12:37.250 --> 01:12:40.167
We didn't notice them in that first shapefile.

1522
01:12:41.040 --> 01:12:45.000
Why, because none of these lines meet that criteria.

1523
01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:46.150
Here's our gathering lines,

1524
01:12:46.150 --> 01:12:48.140
but none of them are between six and eight inches.

1525
01:12:48.140 --> 01:12:50.840
So we didn't need that additional information.

1526
01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:54.250
However, when Rattlesnake decided to do this transfer,

1527
01:12:54.250 --> 01:12:57.660
realize that Havoline's lines were gathering,

1528
01:12:57.660 --> 01:13:00.390
and a couple of them were eight inches.

1529
01:13:00.390 --> 01:13:04.390
So they needed to provide additional information,

1530
01:13:04.390 --> 01:13:05.700
for those two lines.

1531
01:13:05.700 --> 01:13:09.810
And they did, they said this mice was 21.23,

1532
01:13:09.810 --> 01:13:13.760
and that is not in an unusually sensitive area.

1533
01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:16.490
We want to make sure that those numbers are identical,

1534
01:13:16.490 --> 01:13:20.623
in the other shapefile, and they are, perfect.

1535
01:13:21.670 --> 01:13:25.680
Also to point out that the operator determined,

1536
01:13:25.680 --> 01:13:28.130
with these two pieces of information,

1537
01:13:28.130 --> 01:13:30.500
that the line is not regulated.

1538
01:13:30.500 --> 01:13:33.150
That's because the SYS is greater than 20,

1539
01:13:33.150 --> 01:13:35.980
but it is not in an unusually sensitive area.

1540
01:13:35.980 --> 01:13:40.033
So if this was yes for USA, Texas reg would also be yes.

1541
01:13:42.940 --> 01:13:43.773
Okay, cool.

1542
01:13:43.773 --> 01:13:46.480
That is the partial transfer.

1543
01:13:46.480 --> 01:13:50.950
And basically the transfer merge works the same way.

1544
01:13:50.950 --> 01:13:53.290
So as the acquiring operator,

1545
01:13:53.290 --> 01:13:55.157
you can kind of imagine it the same way,

1546
01:13:55.157 --> 01:13:57.010
you have your existing lines,

1547
01:13:57.010 --> 01:13:58.950
and you're bringing in some other lines.

1548
01:13:58.950 --> 01:14:00.590
So you have to amend your permit,

1549
01:14:00.590 --> 01:14:02.680
and show that updated mapping.

1550
01:14:02.680 --> 01:14:04.560
So the only thing that you would do differently,

1551
01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:09.560
as the acquiring operator is to put the TM here,

1552
01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:10.960
instead of PT.

1553
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:13.250
And that will signal to us the mappers,

1554
01:14:13.250 --> 01:14:15.373
Okay this is part of a transfer merge.

1555
01:14:18.870 --> 01:14:19.703
Cool, okay.

1556
01:14:19.703 --> 01:14:23.380
So that is my little ArcMap demo.

1557
01:14:23.380 --> 01:14:25.600
The last thing I'm gonna bore you all with,

1558
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:30.530
is to show you a sample cover letter.

1559
01:14:30.530 --> 01:14:33.810
It's like a mock cover letter that just shows really,

1560
01:14:33.810 --> 01:14:37.610
the most important stuff we wanna see on your cover letter.

1561
01:14:37.610 --> 01:14:41.730
And also how you can use that T4 amendment field,

1562
01:14:41.730 --> 01:14:45.400
to create a link between your cover letter and your mapping.

1563
01:14:45.400 --> 01:14:47.930
That is really what we would love to see,

1564
01:14:47.930 --> 01:14:50.700
going forward with future amendments.

1565
01:14:50.700 --> 01:14:54.810
Basically, you break this down in this table right here.

1566
01:14:54.810 --> 01:14:57.220
This operator is saying, okay,

1567
01:14:57.220 --> 01:14:59.780
I had this many miles at the beginning.

1568
01:14:59.780 --> 01:15:02.020
Here's how many miles are changing,

1569
01:15:02.020 --> 01:15:05.310
here's the code that is associated with that.

1570
01:15:05.310 --> 01:15:07.720
And here is the updated mileage.

1571
01:15:07.720 --> 01:15:09.790
So this table is really simple,

1572
01:15:09.790 --> 01:15:12.300
but really it's just, it's perfect, it's all we need.

1573
01:15:12.300 --> 01:15:13.670
If we have the numbers,

1574
01:15:13.670 --> 01:15:17.290
and we have the code that is associated with the numbers.

1575
01:15:17.290 --> 01:15:19.430
You know, you can put the description here.

1576
01:15:19.430 --> 01:15:22.200
We appreciate like a paragraph as well,

1577
01:15:22.200 --> 01:15:24.950
but things do get lost in translation,

1578
01:15:24.950 --> 01:15:28.090
And it's just easier to just break it down this way,

1579
01:15:28.090 --> 01:15:30.593
so that there's no ambiguity.

1580
01:15:38.320 --> 01:15:41.670
Is it y'all, here are some resources.

1581
01:15:41.670 --> 01:15:44.640
So our homepage, our GIS viewer,

1582
01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:47.460
where you can see your permits at any time,

1583
01:15:47.460 --> 01:15:49.270
that's updated nightly.

1584
01:15:49.270 --> 01:15:52.830
Here's that new document I've been looking over with y'all

1585
01:15:52.830 --> 01:15:56.400
sample cover letters, overview, maps, and shapefile.

1586
01:15:56.400 --> 01:15:58.872
And here's a link to those new rules.

1587
01:15:58.872 --> 01:16:02.083
Here's us from today, if you wanna reach out.

1588
01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:08.960
Lastly, if you guys have questions about POPS,

1589
01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:11.940
you can email the POPS email address.

1590
01:16:11.940 --> 01:16:13.840
And if you have questions about mapping,

1591
01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:16.960
email the TPMS email address.

1592
01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:18.880
Also, if you want your shapefiles,

1593
01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:20.770
like what we have on file for your permit,

1594
01:16:20.770 --> 01:16:23.260
you can also send that request to TPMS.

1595
01:16:23.260 --> 01:16:26.290
Just include your T4 permit number.

1596
01:16:26.290 --> 01:16:28.080
And if you just have any general questions,

1597
01:16:28.080 --> 01:16:29.973
you can always call our main line.

1598
01:16:31.800 --> 01:16:32.733
Any questions?

1599
01:16:35.990 --> 01:16:39.060
<v Deana>Yeah we have a few questions Chris,</v>

1600
01:16:39.060 --> 01:16:41.910
first question is, if we have a pending application,

1601
01:16:41.910 --> 01:16:45.670
with RRC changes to TPMS

1602
01:16:45.670 --> 01:16:47.130
advocates less codes,

1603
01:16:47.130 --> 01:16:51.123
do we need to refile with updated attributes less codes?

1604
01:16:54.120 --> 01:16:55.720
<v ->Hold on I'm just reading this.</v>

1605
01:17:01.430 --> 01:17:02.580
That's a good question.

1606
01:17:08.690 --> 01:17:10.480
I think would be a case-by-case basis.

1607
01:17:10.480 --> 01:17:13.220
I would reach out to me and tell me specifically,

1608
01:17:13.220 --> 01:17:16.760
what your case is and what you feel like it's different

1609
01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:17.890
between those two documents.

1610
01:17:17.890 --> 01:17:19.923
And we can talk about it at that point.

1611
01:17:23.230 --> 01:17:25.290
<v Deana>Okay next question is,</v>

1612
01:17:25.290 --> 01:17:28.160
using the two different diameters.

1613
01:17:28.160 --> 01:17:29.323
A a little versus OD,

1614
01:17:30.356 --> 01:17:34.077
is very difficult encoding is shapefiles to submit.

1615
01:17:35.506 --> 01:17:37.156
Yes that's not really a question.

1616
01:17:39.420 --> 01:17:40.970
<v ->Yeah, just to address, I mean,</v>

1617
01:17:40.970 --> 01:17:42.200
this isn't so much to address that,

1618
01:17:42.200 --> 01:17:45.490
but outside diameter is the value that you need to use,

1619
01:17:45.490 --> 01:17:48.160
like I said, for 12 inches or less.

1620
01:17:48.160 --> 01:17:50.170
If you can use the nominal size,

1621
01:17:50.170 --> 01:17:53.693
but only if your pipeline is greater than 12 inches.

1622
01:17:54.900 --> 01:17:57.310
<v Deana>Next one, can you please repeat the name,</v>

1623
01:17:57.310 --> 01:18:01.133
of the projected coordinate system that you use?

1624
01:18:02.220 --> 01:18:04.943
<v ->Texas Statewide Mapping System.</v>

1625
01:18:06.520 --> 01:18:07.950
<v Deana>Next question example,</v>

1626
01:18:07.950 --> 01:18:12.237
pipeline X was erroneously submitted to the TX RRC.

1627
01:18:14.110 --> 01:18:17.417
And as an addition to an existing permit,

1628
01:18:17.417 --> 01:18:20.090
for pipeline X was actually never constructed,

1629
01:18:20.090 --> 01:18:25.090
slash installed, does offer to then code pipeline X as a DP,

1630
01:18:25.410 --> 01:18:28.710
in the T4_AMD code.

1631
01:18:28.710 --> 01:18:31.510
Second, if a pipeline is abandoned,

1632
01:18:31.510 --> 01:18:33.440
and removed from the ground,

1633
01:18:33.440 --> 01:18:38.440
is that also coded as DP for the T4_AMD instead of BP.

1634
01:18:40.990 --> 01:18:43.420
<v ->So yes to your first question,</v>

1635
01:18:43.420 --> 01:18:46.180
if you submitted a line to us to be built,

1636
01:18:46.180 --> 01:18:47.700
but it never got built.

1637
01:18:47.700 --> 01:18:50.220
Yes you'll use that code DP,

1638
01:18:50.220 --> 01:18:52.040
and you'll say in the cover letter.

1639
01:18:52.040 --> 01:18:54.330
So if you ever use DP,

1640
01:18:54.330 --> 01:18:56.530
please make mention of why you're deleting it,

1641
01:18:56.530 --> 01:18:57.363
in the cover letter.

1642
01:18:57.363 --> 01:18:59.370
So if it's been removed from the ground,

1643
01:18:59.370 --> 01:19:02.000
or in this case, if it was never constructed, just say,

1644
01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:03.160
we're deleting this pipeline,

1645
01:19:03.160 --> 01:19:05.040
because it was never constructed.

1646
01:19:05.040 --> 01:19:06.663
So yes, use DP for them.

1647
01:19:08.555 --> 01:19:10.800
And if your pipeline is removed from the ground,

1648
01:19:10.800 --> 01:19:12.673
same goes, you'll use DP.

1649
01:19:15.010 --> 01:19:19.160
If you use abandoned, you could use abandoned first,

1650
01:19:19.160 --> 01:19:21.970
but if your pipeline is being removed from the ground,

1651
01:19:21.970 --> 01:19:24.580
it doesn't need to be marked as abandoned for us.

1652
01:19:24.580 --> 01:19:27.091
You can just straight up delete that.

1653
01:19:27.091 --> 01:19:29.320
<v Deana>Hey Chris, another question is,</v>

1654
01:19:29.320 --> 01:19:31.240
if you choose the report option,

1655
01:19:31.240 --> 01:19:33.433
you also have to file PS-48.

1656
01:19:34.691 --> 01:19:37.743
Is there a template for the month of the report?

1657
01:19:39.380 --> 01:19:42.460
<v ->I'm thinking Ryan or Karley might be better,</v>

1658
01:19:42.460 --> 01:19:44.470
on the PS-48 stuff,

1659
01:19:44.470 --> 01:19:47.130
on when you have to file the new construction report.

1660
01:19:47.130 --> 01:19:48.713
Y'all wanna hop in on this one.

1661
01:19:52.480 --> 01:19:54.310
<v ->Yes this is Karley, I'll take this one.</v>

1662
01:19:54.310 --> 01:19:56.420
If you do go the monthly route,

1663
01:19:56.420 --> 01:19:58.170
for those new construction reports,

1664
01:19:58.170 --> 01:20:00.853
you don't need to file a PS-48.

1665
01:20:00.853 --> 01:20:03.560
It's kind of a one or the other.

1666
01:20:03.560 --> 01:20:07.810
And at this time we don't have a template available,

1667
01:20:07.810 --> 01:20:09.690
for the monthly report,

1668
01:20:09.690 --> 01:20:12.064
but there are certain criteria,

1669
01:20:12.064 --> 01:20:13.564
that we do wanna see on there.

1670
01:20:18.120 --> 01:20:19.910
<v Deana>And the other question is,</v>

1671
01:20:19.910 --> 01:20:21.700
can we have this presentation again,

1672
01:20:21.700 --> 01:20:23.700
the last slide that we'll show in just a few minutes,

1673
01:20:23.700 --> 01:20:25.063
we'll have a link to that.

1674
01:20:26.150 --> 01:20:29.670
Next question thanks, Ryan for the help.

1675
01:20:29.670 --> 01:20:31.350
That information, is already listed,

1676
01:20:31.350 --> 01:20:35.507
under Texas reg wide TAC Chapter 8.818.

1677
01:20:35.507 --> 01:20:39.770
And just trying to figure out how to file a low line,

1678
01:20:39.770 --> 01:20:44.273
that is regulated per TAC Chapter 8.8 11A 1B,

1679
01:20:46.110 --> 01:20:51.110
but not regulated under CFR 191 dash 195 through 185.

1680
01:20:52.000 --> 01:20:55.533
Is there a way to attribute these lines under Texas reg?

1681
01:20:59.240 --> 01:21:02.010
<v ->Ryan do you know about this one?</v>

1682
01:21:02.010 --> 01:21:04.750
I know that it will require a permit,

1683
01:21:04.750 --> 01:21:08.300
but I believe you would just mark it as Texas reg no,

1684
01:21:08.300 --> 01:21:09.400
in the shapefile.

1685
01:21:09.400 --> 01:21:14.400
If it is not regulated under CFR 192 and 195.

1686
01:21:14.490 --> 01:21:17.220
Ryan, do you have anything else you wanna add to that?

1687
01:21:17.220 --> 01:21:19.600
<v ->This one would still be extra, I guess,</v>

1688
01:21:19.600 --> 01:21:22.663
because it'd be a Class 2 or higher,

1689
01:21:24.200 --> 01:21:25.883
even though it is a flow line.

1690
01:21:30.670 --> 01:21:33.520
If you're having issues with the system rejecting it.

1691
01:21:33.520 --> 01:21:37.753
If it's, if you put Class 1 and then clicks through yes,

1692
01:21:39.380 --> 01:21:42.650
if some operators I think have read and just put Class 2,

1693
01:21:42.650 --> 01:21:47.075
so press two and they're the validations were to go through,

1694
01:21:47.075 --> 01:21:50.610
a cluster higher and you can still submit for that segment,

1695
01:21:50.610 --> 01:21:53.573
texture, I guess, or that flow line.

1696
01:21:54.427 --> 01:21:55.720
There shouldn't be any issues on our end,

1697
01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:57.370
as far as getting that submitted.

1698
01:21:59.750 --> 01:22:02.999
You have a further question on this we can go,

1699
01:22:02.999 --> 01:22:04.120
maybe you can submit another question,

1700
01:22:04.120 --> 01:22:06.120
or you can shoot me an email,

1701
01:22:06.120 --> 01:22:08.120
and we can follow up after this as well.

1702
01:22:10.050 --> 01:22:12.087
<v Deana>Right, thank you.</v>

1703
01:22:12.087 --> 01:22:12.920
All right another question.

1704
01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:14.390
Can you please provide additional information,

1705
01:22:14.390 --> 01:22:18.570
on the 30 day commission notification listed on the T4 A.

1706
01:22:27.200 --> 01:22:30.147
<v ->Ryan I'm not sure about what this is,</v>

1707
01:22:30.147 --> 01:22:32.490
the 30 day commission notification.

1708
01:22:32.490 --> 01:22:35.663
I think this might be yours doing.

1709
01:22:39.652 --> 01:22:42.220
<v ->I'm assuming they're talking to you about the 30 days,</v>

1710
01:22:42.220 --> 01:22:44.113
for us to review a permit.

1711
01:22:46.730 --> 01:22:50.600
And we have 30 days from when the permit is submitted,

1712
01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:54.363
to make an action on it, either reject it or approve it.

1713
01:22:56.100 --> 01:22:58.710
We normally run about two weeks for our rule,

1714
01:22:58.710 --> 01:23:03.710
we have 30 days and if it's rejected and then resubmit it,

1715
01:23:04.910 --> 01:23:07.123
the 30 days does start over.

1716
01:23:11.970 --> 01:23:14.493
<v Deana>Okay let's see.</v>

1717
01:23:16.761 --> 01:23:18.960
So you cannot delete the abandoned.

1718
01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:21.833
So you cannot delete abandoned line from your T4,

1719
01:23:23.007 --> 01:23:24.507
for question mark.

1720
01:23:26.380 --> 01:23:28.460
Yeah I'm Chris you're muted.

1721
01:23:28.460 --> 01:23:30.010
Chris, you're muted

1722
01:23:30.010 --> 01:23:31.510
<v ->Yes, okay, thank you, Deana.</v>

1723
01:23:32.690 --> 01:23:37.690
So you cannot delete an abandoned line,

1724
01:23:37.850 --> 01:23:41.120
unless you have physically removed it from the ground,

1725
01:23:41.120 --> 01:23:42.640
or if there's some other reason why,

1726
01:23:42.640 --> 01:23:44.130
it shouldn't be shown up in mapping,

1727
01:23:44.130 --> 01:23:46.290
like it's not permitted with us.

1728
01:23:46.290 --> 01:23:48.080
But if it's just an old abandoned line,

1729
01:23:48.080 --> 01:23:50.420
and you have not physically removed it from the ground,

1730
01:23:50.420 --> 01:23:51.853
it needs to stick in there.

1731
01:23:53.090 --> 01:23:54.620
<v Deana>Okay another question.</v>

1732
01:23:54.620 --> 01:23:57.411
Whether there is a new line, I'm sorry Ryan.

1733
01:23:57.411 --> 01:23:58.244
<v ->I wasn't here for that real quick.</v>

1734
01:23:58.244 --> 01:24:01.230
Even if it's a pipeline was never built,

1735
01:24:01.230 --> 01:24:03.520
or it's a been removed,

1736
01:24:03.520 --> 01:24:06.430
we still would like that to actually stay in the mapping

1737
01:24:07.454 --> 01:24:09.260
just because that information,

1738
01:24:09.260 --> 01:24:12.640
is on our public viewer, which is used heavily by landowners

1739
01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:15.670
and other people off the public.

1740
01:24:15.670 --> 01:24:20.670
And it makes it difficult to provide information,

1741
01:24:23.540 --> 01:24:26.640
when the lines just suddenly disappear overnight,

1742
01:24:26.640 --> 01:24:28.720
and then operator calls up and say,

1743
01:24:28.720 --> 01:24:30.380
or the landowner calls and say hey,

1744
01:24:30.380 --> 01:24:31.520
what happened to this line?

1745
01:24:31.520 --> 01:24:35.423
That was your own personal land, or anything like that.

1746
01:24:36.330 --> 01:24:38.530
So, and then effort for transparency.

1747
01:24:38.530 --> 01:24:40.590
We're asking that all lines stay on.

1748
01:24:40.590 --> 01:24:42.660
Even if they were moved from the ground,

1749
01:24:42.660 --> 01:24:44.930
that way they can stay in our,

1750
01:24:44.930 --> 01:24:46.450
we'll have information on them.

1751
01:24:46.450 --> 01:24:48.923
And they can stay in the public view as well.

1752
01:24:51.300 --> 01:24:52.690
<v Deana>Thank you.</v>

1753
01:24:52.690 --> 01:24:55.510
When is there, when is a new line permitted,

1754
01:24:55.510 --> 01:24:57.463
the T4A says we have to submit,

1755
01:24:57.463 --> 01:25:01.963
a 30 day commission notification, to the TRCC or RC.

1756
01:25:04.580 --> 01:25:07.083
<v ->I think that was following up on the last one.</v>

1757
01:25:10.520 --> 01:25:11.353
<v Deana>Let's see.</v>

1758
01:25:11.353 --> 01:25:16.270
How do we submit an unregulated Class 2 type B,

1759
01:25:16.270 --> 01:25:17.663
gas gathering line?

1760
01:25:22.620 --> 01:25:25.960
<v ->Assuming that by submitting it,</v>

1761
01:25:25.960 --> 01:25:28.900
you mean to report it to us for the first time,

1762
01:25:28.900 --> 01:25:31.777
you would submit a new permit on POPS.

1763
01:25:31.777 --> 01:25:36.777
<v Deana>And how do we submit an unregulated Class 2B?</v>

1764
01:25:37.793 --> 01:25:39.570
I didn't know if I said, I'm sorry.

1765
01:25:41.467 --> 01:25:43.407
<v ->You're assuming that it's a new permit,</v>

1766
01:25:43.407 --> 01:25:45.570
and you've never submitted it to us.

1767
01:25:45.570 --> 01:25:49.660
You'll go onto POPS and submit your mapping,

1768
01:25:49.660 --> 01:25:52.770
and you'll submit an application for a new permit,

1769
01:25:52.770 --> 01:25:57.050
in order to get that updated to us.

1770
01:25:57.050 --> 01:25:58.900
And in the shapefile, you'll just make sure,

1771
01:25:58.900 --> 01:26:03.130
to put all of the codes in that, meet your criteria,

1772
01:26:03.130 --> 01:26:04.630
and tell us what your line is.

1773
01:26:05.660 --> 01:26:07.740
<v Deana>Yes, yes another question.</v>

1774
01:26:07.740 --> 01:26:12.350
Do we take the mileage off the T4 permit in abandoned lines

1775
01:26:12.350 --> 01:26:16.800
so that we won't get charged a fee on those pipelines?

1776
01:26:16.800 --> 01:26:18.960
<v ->You can, you don't have to,</v>

1777
01:26:18.960 --> 01:26:23.110
we don't charge you for the abandoned lines, anyway,

1778
01:26:23.110 --> 01:26:26.030
we already can tell which lines are abandoned,

1779
01:26:26.030 --> 01:26:27.070
and they don't get charged.

1780
01:26:27.070 --> 01:26:29.263
So if you wanna put in your cover letter,

1781
01:26:30.240 --> 01:26:32.500
you know, only the active mileage, that's fine.

1782
01:26:32.500 --> 01:26:34.450
In fact, some reviewers prefer that,

1783
01:26:34.450 --> 01:26:36.720
just to tell us what's active,

1784
01:26:36.720 --> 01:26:38.350
but as for the mapping side,

1785
01:26:38.350 --> 01:26:40.970
you still want to have them in there,

1786
01:26:40.970 --> 01:26:42.670
on the cover letter side, it's kind of up to you.

1787
01:26:42.670 --> 01:26:44.380
If you wanna tell us total mileage,

1788
01:26:44.380 --> 01:26:46.920
or just total active mileage, you can break that down,

1789
01:26:46.920 --> 01:26:47.770
however you want.

1790
01:26:49.130 --> 01:26:51.180
<v Deana>There's the last question.</v>

1791
01:26:51.180 --> 01:26:52.390
<v ->I was going to clarify too,</v>

1792
01:26:52.390 --> 01:26:57.390
on that unregulated type Class 2 type B gathering line,

1793
01:26:57.490 --> 01:26:59.470
Ryan, those are those situations,

1794
01:26:59.470 --> 01:27:01.220
and you might need to jump in here.

1795
01:27:02.060 --> 01:27:04.010
We have to almost override the validations.

1796
01:27:04.010 --> 01:27:06.420
They're very rare, they don't happen as often,

1797
01:27:06.420 --> 01:27:09.320
but I think we decided to do something in the cover letter

1798
01:27:10.200 --> 01:27:14.973
and then say TA, I think it's, you'd say Texas reg.

1799
01:27:16.258 --> 01:27:18.150
There's something, but in the cover letter,

1800
01:27:18.150 --> 01:27:20.160
cause it's gonna automatically validate,

1801
01:27:20.160 --> 01:27:22.600
is Texas regulated yes.

1802
01:27:22.600 --> 01:27:24.250
But in the cover letter they would state that,

1803
01:27:24.250 --> 01:27:29.250
this is, unregulated under that type B validation.

1804
01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:34.486
(mumbles)

1805
01:27:37.130 --> 01:27:38.661
<v Deana>There was a followup question,</v>

1806
01:27:38.661 --> 01:27:41.063
do you want me to read it before wait for the answer?

1807
01:27:44.090 --> 01:27:45.140
<v ->We can read it now.</v>

1808
01:27:46.190 --> 01:27:49.000
<v Deana>So for an unregulated Class 2 type B,</v>

1809
01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:52.200
gas gathering line, would you put no in the regulated field

1810
01:27:52.200 --> 01:27:53.130
but Class 2.

1811
01:27:56.610 --> 01:28:00.520
<v ->So with that the automatic validations that run.</v>

1812
01:28:00.520 --> 01:28:03.073
So like where Stephanie was talking about,

1813
01:28:04.180 --> 01:28:05.720
you have to put yes,

1814
01:28:05.720 --> 01:28:08.720
but include that information in your cover letter,

1815
01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:12.110
and then we'll have to contract our IT department,

1816
01:28:12.110 --> 01:28:13.870
in February do a workaround.

1817
01:28:13.870 --> 01:28:15.933
They get that for it's March.

1818
01:28:16.908 --> 01:28:19.670
Once the permit is issued and everything is correct,

1819
01:28:19.670 --> 01:28:21.840
but in order for the permit to even be submitted,

1820
01:28:21.840 --> 01:28:25.968
and get past the initial validations of our system,

1821
01:28:25.968 --> 01:28:29.370
for the Class 2 on a Texas reg yes.

1822
01:28:29.370 --> 01:28:30.700
So as knowing that cover letter,

1823
01:28:30.700 --> 01:28:34.930
or you can give one of us email or call as well,

1824
01:28:34.930 --> 01:28:37.420
and we'll work with you to get that permit,

1825
01:28:37.420 --> 01:28:39.853
correct before it is issued.

1826
01:28:43.730 --> 01:28:45.560
<v Deana>Okay the next question,</v>

1827
01:28:45.560 --> 01:28:50.060
there is no option for production lines under commodity one

1828
01:28:50.060 --> 01:28:54.523
for liquid lines production being defined by 195.2,

1829
01:28:56.560 --> 01:28:58.260
regardless of diameter,

1830
01:28:58.260 --> 01:29:01.330
how do we report production line after the meter,

1831
01:29:01.330 --> 01:29:03.300
for liquid ones that are not regulated,

1832
01:29:03.300 --> 01:29:04.550
but needs to be reported.

1833
01:29:08.301 --> 01:29:11.147
<v ->I'll take this one Chris, those would be reported,</v>

1834
01:29:12.003 --> 01:29:13.623
as a gathering lines.

1835
01:29:15.290 --> 01:29:18.150
So you would, if you don't have a permit,

1836
01:29:18.150 --> 01:29:19.110
you need to get a permit.

1837
01:29:19.110 --> 01:29:23.520
If you have one, and these are new production lines,

1838
01:29:23.520 --> 01:29:25.328
that need to be reported,

1839
01:29:25.328 --> 01:29:27.430
you would amend the permit and mark them,

1840
01:29:27.430 --> 01:29:30.690
as liquid gathering lines and, you know,

1841
01:29:30.690 --> 01:29:35.690
none rural I'm assuming and get them permitted that way.

1842
01:29:38.090 --> 01:29:40.120
<v Deana>And the last question that I have is,</v>

1843
01:29:40.120 --> 01:29:43.910
why not accept old mapping on transfer merge option,

1844
01:29:43.910 --> 01:29:46.700
by requiring new operators to read new mapping,

1845
01:29:46.700 --> 01:29:48.330
that causes some small operators

1846
01:29:48.330 --> 01:29:50.993
additional costs of hiring GIS support.

1847
01:29:54.780 --> 01:29:56.840
<v ->Yeah, I definitely hear that.</v>

1848
01:29:56.840 --> 01:30:00.680
The reason is simply because with the previous way,

1849
01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:03.910
there was no need for us to get updated mapping,

1850
01:30:03.910 --> 01:30:04.743
from you guys,

1851
01:30:04.743 --> 01:30:07.700
because the system just completely transfers over.

1852
01:30:07.700 --> 01:30:11.740
But with this new way, there has to be updated shapefiles,

1853
01:30:11.740 --> 01:30:14.320
because you're essentially doing a partial transfer.

1854
01:30:14.320 --> 01:30:17.580
You're bringing it in your mapping is changing.

1855
01:30:17.580 --> 01:30:20.760
So we need to have new shapefiles for that.

1856
01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:21.955
I definitely hear that,

1857
01:30:21.955 --> 01:30:24.355
but that's still something that we need to have.

1858
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:29.259
<v Deana>Okay I think that covers all of our questions,</v>

1859
01:30:29.259 --> 01:30:30.955
that concludes our webinar.

1860
01:30:30.955 --> 01:30:32.900
I want to thank you all for participating via Zoom,

1861
01:30:32.900 --> 01:30:34.790
and watching via webcast.

1862
01:30:34.790 --> 01:30:36.520
If you are watching during the webcast,

1863
01:30:36.520 --> 01:30:38.150
and there was an interruption,

1864
01:30:38.150 --> 01:30:41.700
full video should be available at the link,

1865
01:30:41.700 --> 01:30:44.370
that's displayed on the slide, on your screen,

1866
01:30:44.370 --> 01:30:47.240
the link to the archived webcast that I'm referring to,

1867
01:30:47.240 --> 01:30:49.830
will be available to our RRC website.

1868
01:30:49.830 --> 01:30:51.700
And you can follow that link,

1869
01:30:51.700 --> 01:30:53.770
again thank you for joining us today,

1870
01:30:53.770 --> 01:30:54.920
have a great afternoon.