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Interpretation Response #PI-79-037 ([State Corporation Commission] [Eddie Abeyta])

Below is the interpretation response detail and a list of regulations sections applicable to this response.

Interpretation Response Details

Response Publish Date:

Company Name: State Corporation Commission

Individual Name: Eddie Abeyta

Location State: NM Country: US

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Response text:

Mr. Eddie Abeyta

Director, Pipeline Division

State Corporation Commission

P. O. Drawer 1269

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Dear Mr. Abeyta:

This refers to your telephone inquiry of August 30, 1979, and follow-up letter of September 4, 1979, concerning a leak underneath a building located over a service line which was installed in 1955. You have asked whether under section 192.13(b), replacement on August 22, 1878, of a portion of the service line between the main and customer property line makes the entire service line subject to the design and construction requirements of 49 CFR Part 192.

To confirm our earlier answer, the purpose of section 192.13(b) is to make the design and construction requirements of Part 192 apply to segments of existing pipelines (existing as of
November 12, 1970, in the case of a service line) that are subsequently replaced, relocated, or otherwise changed. Accordingly, any segment of an existing pipeline that is not so changed need not meet the design and construction requirements.

The portion of the service line that was replaced constitutes a "segment of pipeline" within the meaning of section 192.13(b) and the definition of "pipeline" under section 192.3 Thus, the remaining segment of the service line between the property line and gas meters need not meet the design and construction requirements of Part 192 because it was installed prior to November 12, 1970, and has not since been replaced, relocated, or otherwise changed.

Sincerely,

/signed/

Cesar DeLeon

Associate Director for

Pipeline Safety Regulation

Materials Transportation Bureau

Regulation Sections