LOUISVILLE GAS & ELECTRIC CO — Integrity Assurance Notification

ALTERNATIVE PIPE SAMPLINGLouisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E, Operator ID 11824) operates approximately 355 miles of transmission pipeline in Kentucky. Its sister company, Kentucky Utilities Company (KU, Operator ID 30054), operates approximately 11 miles of transmission pipeline in Kentucky. I am writing to you in accordance with §192.18 to inform you of LG&E and KU’s request to use alternative sampling approaches for material verification across its transmission systems as permitted by 49 CFR Part 192. Those alternative sampling approaches, along with other key facts we believe will be of interest to PHMSA, are shown below. Examples of these alternative sampling approaches applied to two pipelines are shown in the attached documents (See attachments) Material Property and Attribute Verification Plan for Center Pipeline and Material Property and Attribute Verification Plan for Magnolia 16-inch Pipeline. This request is to apply the alternative sampling approaches across these two pipelines and any other pipelines in the LG&E and KU systems LG&E and/or KU deem appropriate.#