1. Mapping Requirements & Processing T-4 Forms Pipeline Safety Division
Lori Mireles - Mapping Requirements
Bruce Waterman – T-4 Permits

2. Mapping Requirements
Pipeline Safety Division
Lori Mireles

3. 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

4. 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 to Request an FTP Account
should contain: FTP Request
Contact Person and Title
Company Name
Address
Phone Number
Sample to Request an FTP Account
should be sent to:

5. 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 for an FTP Submission
Subject: Pipeline operator name
Body: Operator Name and Address
Type of Submission
Type of Datum
T-4 Permit/Mapping Contact

6. 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

7. 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

8. Pipeline Mapping Sample Email to Request Digital Data
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 to Request Digital Data
Operator name and Address
T-4 Permit number
Contact information
Sample from RRC to Operator
The name of the file to download is p _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

9. How to Avoid Digital Data Rejections by Exploding the Data
Pipeline Mapping
How to Avoid Digital Data Rejections by Exploding the Data
Explode your Data using Advanced Editing Tools

10. How to set up Advanced Editing Tools

11. Identifying Multi-Part Features

12. Identifying Multi-Part Features
Explode Multi-Part Feature

13. Identifying Multi-Part Features
Update your shape file with these new changes
You are now ready to send your digital to the FTP site

14. Projections Wrong Projection UTM/State Plane Projection
Correct Projection
Geographic Coordinate System
Check your Coordinates
Verify your coordinates at the bottom of your window.

15. 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

16. Pipeline Safety Division
T-4 Permitting
Pipeline Safety Division
Bruce Waterman

17. Permitting Rules 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…

18. Permitting Pipelines

19. Permitting Pipelines

20. Pipeline Permitting & Mapping Standards

21. Pipeline Permitting & Mapping Standards

22. Pipeline Permitting Forms

23. Pipeline Permitting Forms
PS-48 form needed 30 days
before construction starts
24 hour notice for any lines
over 100 ppms of H2S

25. New Construction Report

26. Pipeline Permitting Forms
T-4 needed for any amendment except cancellation of a permit
T-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”.

27. ABC Pipeline Company 223456 P.O. Box 234 Austin, TX 78701
Jane Smith Pipeline Company T4 X X X
Hydrogen X X X X X X X X
Mark Smith
6/10/13
Mark Smith

28. PS8000A form needed for: Pipeline Permitting Forms A new permit
Mileage being added to permit
When requested by RRC

29. P S 8 A ABC Pipeline Company 09000 20.00 20.00 12.75 0.38 X52FBE X ABCA
ABC Pipeline Company
09000
20.00
20.00
12.75
0.38
X52FBE X
ABC
Pipeline
System X
Refined
Products 1
Travis

30. T 4 B John Smith ABC Pipeline Company 123 Operating CompanyX
Jane Wilson
Jane Wilson
123 Operating Company X
John Smith Pipeline Company
5 miles Hydrogen
John Smith
John Smith

31. Sample Cover Letters & Overview Maps

32. E-mail: tpms@rrc.state.tx.us
Contact Information
Kristi Schulz (512)
Operators A-D (plus Enbridge & Enterprise)
Bruce Waterman (512)
Operators E-L (plus Copano)
Brent Mosby (512)
Operators M-Z
Digital Submissions
Lori Mireles (512)
Colby Broadway (512)

33. Questions?