# OLYMPIC PIPE LINE COMPANY — Notice of Amendment

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- **citation:** CPF 52021018NOA
- **title:** OLYMPIC PIPE LINE COMPANY — Notice of Amendment
- **source type:** enforcement
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2021-06-11
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** CLOSED notice of amendment citing 195.446(b)(5).
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Notice of Amendment involving OLYMPIC PIPE LINE COMPANY. PHMSA's enforcement data identifies the cited regulation as 195.446(b)(5). The case was opened on 2021-06-11 and is reported as closed as of 2021-08-12. Open the official case record for notices, responses, orders, and the latest status.

Official case documents:

52021018NOA_Closure Letter_08122021_(20-187752).pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/52021018NOA/52021018NOA_Closure%20Letter_08122021_(20-187752).pdf

52021018NOA_Closure Letter_08122021_(20-187752)_text.pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/52021018NOA/52021018NOA_Closure%20Letter_08122021_(20-187752)_text.pdf

52021018NOA_Notice of Amendment_06112021_(20-187752).pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/52021018NOA/52021018NOA_Notice%20of%20Amendment_06112021_(20-187752).pdf

52021018NOA_Notice of Amendment_06112021_(20-187752)_text.pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/52021018NOA/52021018NOA_Notice%20of%20Amendment_06112021_(20-187752)_text.pdf

52021018NOA_Operator Response to Notice_07082021_(20-187752).pdf: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/enforcement-documents/52021018NOA/52021018NOA_Operator%20Response%20to%20Notice_07082021_(20-187752).pdf

52021018NOA_Notice of Amendment_06112021_(20-187752)_text.pdf

NOTICE OF AMENDMENT
VIA E-MAIL TO MR. JOHN D’ANDREA
June 11, 2021
Mr. John D'Andrea
Head of Operations & HSSE
Olympic Pipeline Company
30 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
CPF 5-2021-018-NOA
Dear Mr. D’Andrea:
On December 14 through 18, 2020, representatives of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration (PHMSA), and the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
(WUTC), pursuant to Chapter 601 of 49 United States Code, inspected Olympic Pipeline
Company’s (Olympic) procedures for control room operations in Renton, Washington.
On the basis of the inspection, PHMSA has identified an apparent inadequacy found within
Olympic’s plans or procedures, as described below:
1. §195.446 Control room management.
(a)…
(b) Roles and responsibilities. Each operator must define the roles and
responsibilities of a controller during normal, abnormal, and emergency operating
conditions. To provide for a controller's prompt and appropriate response to
operating conditions, an operator must define each of the following:



(1) …
(5) The roles, responsibilities and qualifications of others who have the authority to
direct or supersede the specific technical actions of controllers.
Olympic’s control room management procedures are inadequate to assure safe operation of a
pipeline facility. Specifically, its procedures fail to adequately define the roles, responsibilities,
and qualifications of others who have the authority to direct or supersede the specific technical
actions of controllers during normal, abnormal and emergency operating conditions.
Olympic’s Control Room Management Procedure # P-195.446, Pipeline Control Room
Personnel Roles, Authorities and Responsibilities does not define the roles, responsibilities and
qualifications of the “Shift Leader,” an individual who has authority to direct or supersede the
specific technical actions of controllers. Olympic must define the roles, responsibilities, and
qualifications of the Shift Leader(s) in the Control Room Management Procedure # P-195.446,
Pipeline Control Room Personnel Roles, Authorities and Responsibilities.
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
Compliance 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 Olympic maintain documentation of the safety improvement
costs associated with fulfilling this Notice of Amendment (preparation/revision of plans,
procedures) and submit the total to Dustin Hubbard, Director, Western Region, Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. In correspondence concerning this matter, please
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refer to CPF 5-2021-018-NOA and, for each document you submit, please provide a copy in
electronic format whenever possible.
Sincerely,
Dustin Hubbard
Director, Western Region, Office of Pipeline Safety
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Enclosure: Response Options for Pipeline Operators in Compliance Proceedings
cc: PHP-60 Compliance Registry
PHP-500 J. Dunphy (#20-187752)
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52021018NOA_Closure Letter_08122021_(20-187752)_text.pdf

VIA E-MAIL TO MR. JOHN D’ANDREA
August 12, 2021
Mr. John D'Andrea
Head of Operations & HSSE
Olympic Pipeline Company
30 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
CPF 5-2021-018-NOA
Closure Letter
Dear Mr. D'Andrea:
On December 14 through 18, 2020, representatives of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration (PHMSA), and the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
(WUTC), pursuant to Chapter 601 of 49 United States Code, inspected Olympic Pipeline
Company’s (Olympic) procedures for control room operations in Renton, Washington. As a
result of the inspection, Olympic was issued a Notice of Amendment on June 11, 2021, which
proposed amendment of your procedures.
Olympic submitted its amended procedures on July 8, 2021. My staff reviewed the amended
procedures, and it appears 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,
Dustin Hubbard
Director, Western Region
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
cc: PHP-60 Compliance Registry
PHP-500 J. Dunphy (#20-187752)
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