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Incident Narrative

AT APPROXIMATELY 1504 LOCAL TIME ON FEBRUARY 29, 2024, THE KINDER MORGAN CONTROL ROOM NOTICED A DROP IN PRESSURE ON THE 6-INCH LS-55 RENO TO FALLON LINE, WHICH WAS NOT IN OPERATION, AND DISPATCHED A LINE RIDER TO INVESTIGATE. KINDER MORGAN WAS THEN NOTIFIED BY THE LYON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT OF A POTENTIAL RELEASE FROM THE LINE IN FERNLEY, NV. KM BEGAN THE INTERNAL NOTIFICATION PROCESS AND INITIATED EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROCEDURES. A LOCAL OPERATOR ARRIVED ONSITE AT 1615 AND CONFIRMED PRODUCT HAD BEEN RELEASED. LYON COUNTY FD INDICATED PRODUCT BEGAN TO IGNITE BUT IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO DISPERSE FOAM TO COMBAT THE FIRE. THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED BY THE TIME THE OPERATOR ARRIVED. THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION FOUND THE RELEASE RESULTED WHEN A POWERLINE, DISCONNECTED BY HIGH WINDS, CONTACTED A METAL PIPELINE MARKER NEAR LS-55, CREATING AN ELECTRICAL ARC ONTO THE PIPELINE. THE NRC WAS INITIALLY NOTIFIED OF THE RELEASE AT 1615. THE LINE WAS REPAIRED AND RETURNED TO SERVICE AT 2005 ON MARCH 3, 2024. 6/12/2024 UPDATE: KINDER MORGAN CONCLUDED IT INVESTIGATION AND CONFIRMED THE RELEASE WAS CAUSED BY AN ELECTRICAL ARC ONTO LS-55 WHEN THE DISCONNECTED POWERLINE CONTACTED THE NEARBY METAL PIPELINE MARKER. 8.21.2024 KINDER MORGAN HAS REVISED THE ESTIMATED RELEASED VOLUME TO 59 BARRELS. ONCE REPAIRS WERE COMPLETED, SCADA CALCULATED 752 BARRELS TO REFILL THE LINE PRIOR TO RETURNING IT TO SERVICE WHICH WAS USED TO ESTIMATE RELEASE. IT WAS LATER FOUND THAT HAND TANK GAUGE DATA FROM THE STORAGE TANK AT THE DOWNSTREAM DELIVERY POINT SHOWS 693 BARRELS OF JET FUEL DRAINED INTO THE TANK. KINDER MORGAN ESTIMATES 32.74 BARRELS OF PRODUCT IS LEFT TO BE RECOVERED BASED ON A CALCULATED BURN-OFF OF 20.1 BARRELS BEFORE THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED AND 6.16 BARRELS RECOVERED BY REMEDIATION SO FAR. THE REVISED RELEASE VOLUME IS CONSISTENT WITH FIELD OBSERVATIONS BY KINDER MORGAN DURING THE INVESTIGATION AND ONGOING REMEDIATION. 9.23.2024 LINE 22C CORRECTED TO REFLECT BURN-OFF DOCUMENTATION IN NARRATIVE.