# MENZIES AVIATION — Notice of Amendment

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** CPF 12022047NOA
- **title:** MENZIES AVIATION — Notice of Amendment
- **source type:** enforcement
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2022-04-26
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** CLOSED notice of amendment citing 195.446(h)(1).
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Notice of Amendment involving MENZIES AVIATION. PHMSA's enforcement data identifies the cited regulation as 195.446(h)(1). The case was opened on 2022-04-26 and is reported as closed as of 2022-08-18. Open the official case record for notices, responses, orders, and the latest status.

Official case documents:

12022047NOA_Closure Letter_08182022_(21-199432).pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/12022047NOA/12022047NOA_Closure%20Letter_08182022_(21-199432).pdf

12022047NOA_Closure Letter_08182022_(21-199432)_text.pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/12022047NOA/12022047NOA_Closure%20Letter_08182022_(21-199432)_text.pdf

12022047NOA_Notice of Amendment_04262022_(21-199432).pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/12022047NOA/12022047NOA_Notice%20of%20Amendment_04262022_(21-199432).pdf

12022047NOA_Notice of Amendment_04262022_(21-199432)_text.pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/12022047NOA/12022047NOA_Notice%20of%20Amendment_04262022_(21-199432)_text.pdf

12022047NOA_Operator Response to Notice_05242022_(21-199432).pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/12022047NOA/12022047NOA_Operator%20Response%20to%20Notice_05242022_(21-199432).pdf

12022047NOA_Notice of Amendment_04262022_(21-199432)_text.pdf

NOTICE OF AMENDMENT
OVERNIGHT EXPRESS DELIVERY
April 26, 2022
Mr. Michael Farris
General Manager
Menzies Aviation
6000 De Havilland Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99502
CPF 1-2022-047-NOA
Dear Mr. Farris:
From May 3, 2021 through May 7, 2021, representatives of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration (PHMSA) pursuant to Chapter 601 of 49 United States Code (U.S.C.)
inspected Menzies Aviation’s control room management procedures for its Jet Fuel Crosstown
Pipeline located in Anchorage, Alaska.
On the basis of the inspection, PHMSA has identified an apparent inadequacy found within
Menzies Aviation’s procedures, as described below:
1. § 195.446 Control Room Management.
(a) …
(h) Training. Each operator must establish a controller training
program and review the training program content to identify potential
improvements at least once each calendar year, but at intervals not to
exceed 15 months. An operator’s program must provide for training
each controller to carry out the roles and responsibilities defined by the
operator. In addition, the training program must include the following
elements:
(1) Responding to abnormal operating conditions likely to occur
simultaneously or in sequence;
Menzies Aviation’s control room management training program procedures were inadequate to



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assure safe operation of a pipeline facility. Specifically, Menzies Aviation’s training program
procedures failed to include elements for responding to abnormal operating conditions that are
likely to occur simultaneously or in sequence.
During the inspection, PHMSA requested training procedures and documentation relevant to
§ 195.446(h)(1). Menzies Aviation provided its Jet Fuel Pipeline Control Room Management
Compliance Manual (CRM Manual), Section 10 - Training. This section repeated the regulations
but did not provide any training details or a list of abnormal operating conditions likely to occur
simultaneously or in sequence.
Therefore, Menzies Aviation’s training program procedures failed to include elements for
responding to abnormal operating conditions that are likely to occur simultaneously or in sequence.
Menzies Aviation must revise its procedures to include details of its process for complying with
§ 195.446(h)(1).
Response to this Notice
This Notice is provided pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 60108(a) and 49 C.F.R. § 190.206. Enclosed as
part of this Notice is a document entitled Response Options for Pipeline Operators in Enforcement
Proceedings.
Please refer to this document and note the response options. Be advised that all material you
submit in response to this enforcement action is subject to being made publicly available. If you
believe that any portion of your responsive material qualifies for confidential treatment under 5
U.S.C. 552(b), along with the complete original document you must provide a second copy of the
document with the portions you believe qualify for confidential treatment redacted and an
explanation of why you believe the redacted information qualifies for confidential treatment under
5 U.S.C. 552(b).
Following the receipt of this Notice, you have 30 days to submit written comments, revised
procedures, or a request for a hearing under §190.211. If you do not respond within 30 days of
receipt of this Notice, this constitutes a waiver of your right to contest the allegations in this Notice
and authorizes the Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety to find facts as alleged in this Notice
without further notice to you and to issue an Order Directing Amendment. If your plans or
procedures are found inadequate as alleged in this Notice, you may be ordered to amend your plans
or procedures to correct the inadequacies (49 C.F.R. § 190.206). If you are not contesting this
Notice, we propose that you submit your amended procedures to my office within 30 days of
receipt of this Notice. This period may be extended by written request for good cause. Once the
inadequacies identified herein have been addressed in your amended procedures, this enforcement
action will be closed.
It is requested (not mandated) that Menzies Aviation maintain documentation of the safety
improvement costs associated with fulfilling this Notice of Amendment (preparation/revision of
plans, procedures) and submit the total to Robert Burrough, Director, Eastern Region, Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 840 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 300, West Trenton, NJ
08628. In correspondence concerning this matter, please refer to CPF 1-2022-047-NOA and, for
each document you submit, please provide a copy in electronic format whenever possible. Smaller
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files may be emailed to robert.burrough@dot.gov. Larger files should be sent on USB flash drive
accompanied by the original paper copy to the Eastern Region Office.
Sincerely,
Robert Burrough
Director, Eastern Region
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Enclosure: Response Options for Pipeline Operators in Enforcement Proceedings
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12022047NOA_Closure Letter_08182022_(21-199432)_text.pdf

OVERNIGHT EXPRESS DELIVERY
August 18, 2022
Mr. Michael Farris
General Manager
Menzies Aviation
6000 De Havilland Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99502
CPF 1-2022-047-NOA
Dear Mr. Farris:
From May 3 through May 7, 2021, representatives from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration (PHMSA), pursuant to chapter 601 of 49 United States Code, conducted a
Control Room safety inspection of Menzies Aviation’s procedures for its Jet Fuel Crosstown
Pipeline located in Anchorage, Alaska. As a result of the inspection, Menzies Aviation was issued
a Notice of Amendment on April 26, 2022, which proposed amendment of your procedures.
Menzies Aviation’s submitted its amended procedures on May 24, 2022. My staff reviewed the
amended procedures, and it appears that the inadequacies outlined in this Notice of Amendment
have been corrected.
This letter is to inform you no further action is necessary and this case is now closed. Thank you
for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Robert Burrough
Director, Eastern Region
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
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