These Esri shapefile and file 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.  