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Pipeline Safety: Periodic Updates to Pipeline Safety Regulations

Direct final rule.

This direct final rule makes a minor editorial correction to the definition of "transmission line" in the Federal safety regulations for natural gas pipelines. The correction is intended to clarify that gathering lines are excluded from the definition of transmission line. Because gathering lines have never been included in the definition of transmission line, the correction will not result in any substantive change in the definition.

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