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USA: PHMSA issues Notice of Probable Violation to Colonial Pipeline Company for alleged violations of safety regulations

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ('PHMSA') announced, on 5 May 2022, that it had issued a Notice of Probable Violation ('NOPV') and Proposed Compliance Order to Colonial Pipeline Company, for multiple alleged violations of Federal pipeline safety regulations ('PSRs'), proposing civil penalties amounting to $986,400. In particular, the PHMSA detailed that, from January through November 2020, it conducted an inspection of Colonial Pipeline Company's procedures and records for Control Room Management ('CRM') and made preliminary determinations that Colonial Pipeline Company was in probable violation of several PSRs, including a probable failure to adequately plan and prepare for manual shutdown and restart of its pipeline system.

Lastly, the PHMSA highlighted that, following the receipt of the NOPV, Colonial Pipeline Company has 30 days to contest, contest in part, or accept the proposed civil penalties

You can read the press release here and the NOPV here

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