Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.



On August 31, 2021, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of NuStar GP, LLC (the
"Company"), the general partner of the general partner of NuStar Energy L.P.
(the "Partnership"), increased the size of the Board to eleven members, and the
Board selected Ed Grier and Martin Salinas, Jr. to serve as members of the Board
of the Company, pursuant to the recommendation of the Nominating/Governance &
Conflicts Committee. There are no arrangements between Mr. Grier or Mr. Salinas
and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Grier or Mr. Salinas were selected as
a director.

In connection with the new appointments, James F. Clingman, Jr. announced his
decision to retire from the Board, effective October 27, 2021. Mr. Clingman
serves on the Compensation Committee of the Board. Mr. Clingman's decision to
retire from the Board effective October 27, 2021 is not due to any disagreement
with the Company or the Partnership relating to the operations, practices or
policies of the Partnership.

Mr. Grier has been designated as a Group I director, serving an initial term
until the Partnership's 2022 annual meeting of unitholders, and has been
appointed as a member of the Nominating/Governance & Conflicts Committee of the
Board. Mr. Salinas has been designated as a Group II director, serving an
initial term until the Partnership's 2023 annual meeting of unitholders, and has
been appointed as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board.

Mr. Grier, 66, has served as the Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa
Clara University in California since July 2021. From March 2010 to June 2021, he
served as the Dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University ("VCU") School of
Business. Prior to joining VCU, Mr. Grier spent approximately 29 years with the
Walt Disney Company beginning in 1981, serving as the President of the
Disneyland Resort from 2006 until 2010. Mr. Grier held various other senior
financial and operational roles during his career with Disney. Mr. Grier has
served as a director of both Witt/Kiefer (an executive search firm) and Capital
Senior Living Corporation since 2016. Previously, he served as a director of
NVR, Inc. from 2013 to 2020.

Mr. Salinas, 49, served as Chief Executive Officer of Phase 4 Energy Partners
from October 2015 to December 2017 and as Chief Financial Officer of Energy
Transfer Partners, L.P. from June 2008 through April 2015. He joined Energy
Transfer Partners, L.P. in 2004 and served as Controller and Vice President of
Finance until being appointed as Chief Financial Officer in 2008. In addition to
serving as Chief Financial Officer for Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. Mr.
Salinas also served as Sunoco Logistics, L.P.'s Chief Financial Officer and a
member of the Board of Directors from October 2012 to April 2015 and as a member
of the Board of Directors for Sunoco Partners, L.P. from March 2014 until April
2015. Prior to joining Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., Mr. Salinas worked at
KPMG, LLP from September 1994 through August 2004, serving audit clients
primarily in the Oil and Gas industry. He has served as a director of Green
Plains Partners LP since July 2018 and served as a director of Noble Midstream
Partners LP from October 2016 until it was acquired in May 2021.

As non-employee directors, Mr. Grier or Mr. Salinas will receive the Company's
standard non-employee director compensation, as more fully described in the
Partnership's Proxy Statement. Neither Mr. Grier nor Mr. Salinas is a party to
any transaction that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation
S-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 11, 2021.

Item 9.01  Exhibits.

(d)  Exhibits.
Exhibit Number                                                EXHIBIT

Exhibit 104                  Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded
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