These ESRI shapefile, file geodatabase, and personal geodatabase templates are provided for your convenience and should be used at your discretion.  These templates contain the NPMS attributes as defined in Section 3 as well as Appendix A.1 (Pipeline Attribute Table), Appendix A.2 (LNG Plant Attribute Table), and Appendix A.3 (Breakout Tank Attribute Table) of the NPMS Operator Standards (https://www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov/Documents/Operator_Standards.pdf).  

Please note that the templates have a pre-defined projection of Geographic Latitude Longitude NAD 83 Decimal Degrees.  If this is not the projection of your data, you MUST re-project the downloaded template before you load data into it.  