{"operation":"document","citation":"PHMSA Guidance, Stay of Enforcement - API 5L and API 1104","title":"Stay of Enforcement - API 5L and API 1104","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2008-12-23","effective_on":"2008-12-23","summary":"Stay of Enforcement - API 5L and API 1104 Document Stay of Enforcement - API 5L and 1104 Final.pdf (246.58 KB) Stays enforcement of the requirements to use API Specification 5L (2004) provided that API Specification 5L (2007) is used in its place. Issued Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-guidance-stay-enforcement-api-5l-and-api-1104-e8b8d151.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-guidance-stay-enforcement-api-5l-and-api-1104-e8b8d151.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-guidance-stay-enforcement-api-5l-and-api-1104-e8b8d151","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/regulatory-compliance/phmsa-guidance/stay-enforcement-api-5l-and-api-1104","body":"Stay of Enforcement - API 5L and API 1104\n\nDocument\n\n Stay of Enforcement - API 5L and 1104 Final.pdf (246.58 KB)\n\n        Stays enforcement of the requirements to use API Specification 5L (2004) provided that API Specification 5L (2007) is used in its place.\n\n          Issued Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008\n\n<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nMemorandum\nU.S. Department\nof Transportation\nPipeline and\nHazardous Materials\nSafety Administration\nSubject: Stay of Enforcement - API 5L and API 1104\nDate:\nDecember 23, 2008\nFrom: Jefirey D. Wiese Duren\nAssociate Administrator for Pipeline Safety\nTo: PHMSA-Pipeline Region Directors\nI am writing to you today to ask you to stay the enforcement of the requirements of 49 CFR $8\n192.7 and 195.3 to use API Specification 5L \"Specification for Line Pipe\" (43rd edition and\nerrata, 2004), provided API Specification 5L, \"Specification for Line Pipe\" (44th edition,\nOctober 2007) is used in its place.\nI am also asking you to stay the enforcement of the requirements of 49 CFR §§ 192.7 and 195.3\nto use API 1104 \"Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities\" (19th edition, 1999 including\nErrata October 31, 2001), provided API 1104 \"Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities\"\n(20th edition, October 2005 including Errata/ Addendum July 2007) is used in its place.\nAs outlined below, I believe these actions are in the public's interest as they promptly remove\nbarriers to higher levels of safety during the current surge of pipeline construction.\nAPI Specification 5L, \"Specification for Line Pipe\"\nThe Federal pipeline safety regulations at 49 CFR Parts 192 and 195 incorporate by reference\nnumerous consensus standards relating to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of\nnatural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. 49 CFR §§ 192.7 and 195.3 currently incorporate by\nreference the 43rd edition of API Specification 5L \"Specification for Line Pipe\" (43rd edition\nand errata, 2004), a standard specification for the manufacture of line pipe.\nAPI has issued a more recent edition of this standard: API Specification 5L, \"Specification for\nLine Pipe\" (44th edition, October 2007, and effective October 1, 2008). This new edition\nincludes higher toughness standards, more restrictive pipe dimension limits, more comprehensive\ninspection methods, and new sour service and offshore pipe specification and inspection\nrequirements. PHMSA staff has reviewed this edition, compared it to the earlier referenced\nedition, and believes the more recent edition provides a higher level of safety. We intend to\nincorporate by reference the updated API standard specification discussed above in the normal\nrulemaking process.\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nBy letters dated September 26, 2008 and December 4, 2008, EVRAZ, Inc. and California Steel\nIndustries, Inc., petitioned PHMSA to allow the use of the 44th edition of API 5L immediately\nwhile rulemaking proceeds. The petitioners explained that the failure to allow the use of the\nnewer standard would adversely impact the metallurgy and tolerances of the pipe manufactured\nin their plants and that the impact was industry-wide. Because of the lead time needed to order\nsteel pipe for major infrastructure projects, the petitioners urged PHMSA to allow the use of the\nnewer standard to avoid adverse impacts on their customers' projects involving thousands of tons\nof pipe and hundreds of workers. I find that these circumstances justify the stay of enforcement\nof the earlier edition of API 5L.\nAPI 1104 \"Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities\"\n49 CFR §§ 192.7 and 195.3 currently incorporate by reference the 19th edition of API 1104\n\"Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities\" (19th edition, 1999 including Errata October 31,\n2001), a standard for welding of pipe.\nAPI has issued a more recent edition of this standard: API 1104 \"Welding of Pipelines and\nRelated Facilities\" (20th edition, October 2005 including Errata/Addendum July 2007). This\nnew edition of API 1104 includes more conservative acceptance criteria for pipeline welding, in\nparticular for higher strength steels. PHMSA staff has reviewed this edition, compared it to the\nearlier referenced edition, and believes the more conservative acceptance criteria in the more\nrecent edition provide a higher level of confidence in the quality of welds. We intend to\nincorporate by reference the updated APt 1104 standard in the normal rulemaking process.\nHowever, PHMSA staff has determined that allowing the use of the improved welding standard\nwithout delay will benefit public safety. I find the above circumstance justifies staying the\nenforcement of the earlier edition of API 1104.\nCC:\nGeorge Mosinskis (NAPSR)\n2","truncated":false,"body_characters":4647}