RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
Mapping Requirements &
Processing T-4 Forms
Pipeline Safety Division
Lori Mireles - Mapping Requirements
Bruce Waterman – T-4 Permits
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
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
Projections
• Wrong Projection
UTM/State Plane Projection
• Correct Projection
Geographic Coordinate System
• Check your Coordinates
Verify your coordinates at the bottom of your window.
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
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
T-4 Permitting
Pipeline Safety Division
Bruce Waterman
Permitting Rules
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If 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
Pipeline Permitting Forms
• PS-48 form needed 30 days
before construction starts
• 24 hour notice for any lines
over 100 ppms of H2S
New Construction Report
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Pipeline Permitting Forms
• T-4 needed for any amendment except
cancellation of a permit
• T-4B pipeline transfer needed for:
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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
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Annual renewal with NO changes to the pipeline
system.
• T-4A is “the permit”.
ABC Pipeline Company
223456
P.O. Box 234 Austin, TX 78701
X
Jane Smith Pipeline Company
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X
X
X
Hydrogen
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Mark Smith
6/10/13
Mark Smith
Pipeline Permitting Forms
• PS8000A form needed for:
1. A new permit
2. Mileage being added to permit
3. When requested by RRC
ABC Pipeline Company
ABC
Pipeline
System
Refined
Products
X
09000
20.00
20.00
12.75
0.38
X52FBE
X
1
Travis
ABC Pipeline Company
X
Jane Wilson
Jane Wilson
123 Operating Company
X
John Smith Pipeline Company
5 miles Hydrogen
John Smith
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)-524-6019
E-mail: tpms@rrc.state.tx.us
Questions?