Mapping Requirements & PowerPoint Presentation

Mapping Requirements &Processing T-4 FormsPipeline Safety Division

Lori Mireles - Mapping

Requirements

Bruce Waterman – T-4 Permits

Mapping Requirements Pipeline Safety Division

Lori Mireles

Presentation Overview

Digital and Hard Copy Submission Requirements

How to Avoid Digital Data Rejections by Exploding the Data

Projections

Helpful Resources

Steps to Search Pipeline Permits

Pipeline Mapping

Digital Submissions

Pipeline Safety – Mapping – Digital Submissions

Steps to Set up an FTP account (File Transfer Protocol)

The software that enables files to be transmitted over data lines from one computer

to another

Submit Email

to Request an FTP

Account

Email should contain: FTP Request

Contact Person and Title

Company Name

Address

Phone Number

Sample

Email to Request

an

FTP

Account

Email should be sent to:

tpms@rrc.state.tx.us

Pipeline Mapping

Steps to Instructions for Submitting and Receiving Digital Data via

FTP

Instructions for Submitting Digital

Lower case “t”

Maximum of 8 characters

Required files: .

shp

, .dbf, .

shx

and .

prj

Sample

Email for an FTP

Submission

Subject: Pipeline operator name

Body: Operator Name and Address

Type of Submission

Type of Datum

T-4 Permit/Mapping Contact

Pipeline Mapping

Steps to Attribute

Definitions

Attribute

Definitions

Be

sure to

add all

the

*Required Fields in

Red

A T-4 Amend code should be listed for each line segment

Steps

to Commodity

List

Commodity List

Commodity Description (Butane/Butylene), Commodity (HVL),

Systype

(Q)

Steps

to Vendor

List

Vendor List

Software Vendor List for Submitting Digital Data

All vendors on this list have been approved to submit the required data

Pipeline Mapping

Steps

to Hard Copy Map Submissions

Hard

Copy Submission Requirements

7.5 minute USGS Quad – 24X29 in. – 1 to 24,000 scale

Operator name

T-4

Permit

Number

System names

Counties

Date created

Numbered quads

T-4 Permit/Mapping contact person and phone number

Maps

should have this essential information

:

Coordinates, Quad Name

Border notation, County/State Line,

City Name/Limits

, Roads & Map Scale

,

One permit per Map

Pipeline Mapping

Labeling

Pipelines (Option 1)

– Label diameters, Specify multiple

lines using same R.O.W., UseT4 amendment codes to color code

pipelines.

Labeling Pipelines (Option 2)

– Highlight all changes, Mark

intersections/attributes with a dot. Identify the change.

Sample

Email to Request Digital Data

Operator name and Address

T-4 Permit number

Contact information

Sample

Email from RRC to Operator

The

name of the file to download is

p04152014_1.tar.gz

Extracted

data for t4 permit

09999

Retrieving

Data from the Railroad Commission

Original FTP instructions

*See

Instructions for DOS FTP

for visual reference of instructions

at the end of this

handout

Pipeline Mapping

How to Avoid Digital Data Rejections by Exploding the Data

Explode your Data using Advanced Editing Tools

How to set up Advanced Editing Tools

Identifying

Multi-Part Features

Identifying Multi-Part Features

Explode Multi-Part Feature

Identifying Multi-Part Features

Update your shape file with these new changes

You are now ready to send your digital to the FTP site

Wrong Projection

UTM/State Plane Projection

Correct Projection

Geographic Coordinate

System

Check your Coordinates

Verify your coordinates at the bottom of

your window

.

Projections

Pipeline Mapping

Steps

to Public GIS Map Viewers

Enhanced

Public

GIS

Viewer

Legacy Public GIS

Viewer

Steps

to Data Online Research Queries

Steps

to Search

T-4 Pipeline Permits - Enter your permit number – Click on Search

Go down to Actions – View this document – Documents appear

Steps to Print T-4 Pipeline Permits

Click on Download to print all pages

Click on Download Page to print page of interest only

Additional Helpful Information:

Instructions for using FTP Software – FTP Password for Sending and Retrieving Digital Data – Instructions for DOS FTP - FAQ’s

T-4 Permitting Pipeline Safety Division

Bruce Waterman

Permitting RulesIf a pipeline leaves the lease…Regulated and Non-Regulated lines

Permits may have only one fluid…

Pipeline should be continuous…

Permits should be amended…

If pipelines are regulated…

Permitting Pipelines

Permitting Pipelines

Pipeline Permitting & Mapping Standards

Pipeline Permitting & Mapping Standards

Pipeline Permitting Forms

PS-48 form needed 30 days before construction starts 24 hour notice for any lines over 100

ppms

of H2S

Pipeline

Permitting Forms

New Construction Report

T-4 needed for any amendment except cancellation of a permitT-4B pipeline transfer needed for:

Change of operator (A sells to B)

Operator name

change (ABC LP becomes ABC LLC)

Partial transfer to another operator

T-4C

permit renewal form

Annual renewal with NO changes to the pipeline system.

T-4A

is “the permit”.

Pipeline

Permitting Forms

T4

ABC Pipeline Company 223456 P.O. Box 234 Austin, TX 78701

X

Jane Smith Pipeline Company

X

X

X

X

Hydrogen

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Mark Smith

Mark Smith

6/10/13

PS8000A form needed for: A new permit Mileage being added to permit When requested by RRC

Pipeline

Permitting Forms

PS

8

0

0

0

A

ABC

Pipeline

System

Refined

Products

X

20.00

12.75

0.38

X52FBE

X

1

Travis

09000

20.00

ABC Pipeline Company

T4

B

ABC Pipeline Company

123 Operating Company

X

John Smith Pipeline Company

5 miles Hydrogen

John Smith

Jane Wilson

X

Jane Wilson

John Smith

Sample Cover Letters & Overview Maps

Contact Information

Kristi Schulz -------------- (512)-463-7090

Operators A-D (plus Enbridge & Enterprise)

Bruce Waterman--------- (512)-463-3046

Operators E-L (plus

Copano

)

Brent Mosby -------------- (512)-463-6519

Operators M-Z

Digital Submissions

Lori Mireles --------------- (512)-463-7032

Colby Broadway--------- (512)-524-601

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E-mail:

tpms@rrc.state.tx.us

Questions?