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Volume 63, No. 22

289/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 31, 2020

B.C. Reg. 289/2020 , deposited December 18, 2020, under the OIL AND GAS ACTIVITIES ACT [section 111]. Regulation of the Board of the Oil and Gas Commission, dated December 18, 2020.

The Board of the Oil and Gas Commission orders that the Pipeline Regulation, B.C. Reg. 281/2010,

is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— F. MIHLAR, Chair, Board of Directors .

Schedule

Section 7 (1) to (4) of the Pipeline Regulation, B.C. Reg. 281/2010, is repealed

and the following substituted:

(1) In this section:

"damage prevention program" means a program for the purpose of anticipating and preventing damage to a permit

holder's pipeline;

"pipeline integrity management program" means a program for the purpose of managing the integrity of a permit holder's pipeline

and that complies with CSA Z662 and Annex N of CSA Z662.

(2) A pipeline permit holder must not operate a pipeline approved by the permit

unless

(

a) the holder has first prepared a damage prevention program, and

(

b) the pipeline is operated in accordance with the damage prevention program.

(3) A pipeline permit holder must not construct or operate a pipeline approved

by the permit unless the holder has first prepared a pipeline integrity management

program.

(4) A pipeline permit holder must not construct, operate, maintain, repair, deactivate

or abandon a pipeline approved by the permit unless the pipeline is constructed, operated,

maintained, repaired, deactivated or abandoned in accordance with the permit holder's

pipeline integrity management program.

Section 9 is repealed and the following substituted:

Deactivation

(1) This

section applies if, for a period of 18 consecutive calendar months, a pipeline

permit holder does not transport fluids through the holder's permitted pipeline or

part of the pipeline.

(2) The period referred to in subsection (1) begins, as applicable,

(

a) the day after the last day fluid is transported through the permitted pipeline

or part of the pipeline, if the pipeline or part has been used to transport fluids,

(

b) the day after construction of the permitted pipeline or part of the pipeline

is completed, if the pipeline or part has not been used to transport fluids.

(3) Before the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (1), the pipeline

permit holder must do one of the following:

(

a) deactivate the permitted pipeline or part of the pipeline and notify the commission

on completion of the deactivation;

(

b) submit to the commission a plan to deactivate the permitted pipeline or part

of the pipeline after the end of that period;

(

c) submit to the commission a plan for resuming or beginning, as applicable,

the transportation of fluids through the permitted pipeline or part of the pipeline.

(4) If a plan is submitted to the commission under subsection (3) (

b) or (c),

(

a) the plan must be approved by the commission, and

(

b) the pipeline permit holder must implement the plan as approved by the commission.

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