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The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has appointed several new members to its Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee (TPSSC). TPSSC is comprised of individuals from the government, industry and the public and meets regularly to review PHMSA’s proposed pipeline safety standards and provide recommendations on their technical feasibility, reasonableness, cost-effectiveness and practicability.

New government members are: David Danner, Chairman of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Committee; Steve Allen, Director of the Pipeline Safety Division for the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission; and, Terry Turpin, Deputy Director of the Office of Energy Projects at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Sara Rollet Gosman, Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law and Vice President of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a new public member.

PHMSA announced that the next meeting of the TPSSC will be January 11-12 in Arlington, Va., to review the transmission and gathering proposed rule. PHMSA also announced that the TPSSC will hold two additional meetings in the Washington area February 7-9 and February 28-March 2 to continue reviewing this very major rulemaking. TPSSC meetings are not webcast, however the transcript and presentation slides from the meeting will be available after the meeting ends.

For more information on each advisory committee, including upcoming and previous meetings, history, and more, visit PHMSA’s online pipeline advisory committee page at http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline/regs/technical-advisory-comm. For questions on this article, please contact John Erickson of APGA staff by phone at 202-464-0834 or by email at jerickson@apga.org.