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Pipeline Safety: Property Damage Definition for Incident Reporting on Gas Pipelines and Accidents on Hazardous Liquid Pipelines
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published this final rule in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025. It took effect on October 9, 2025. Comments closed on September 2, 2025.
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What the agency says
This DFR revises the property damage threshold for determining when a release from a gas or hazardous liquid pipeline facility meets the definition of a reportable incident or accident. This change clarifies that certain indirect impacts associated with investigating and repairing a release do not contribute to that threshold. This DFR also adopts an inflation adjusted property damage threshold for reporting hazardous liquid pipeline accidents identical to the one previously adopted for reporting gas pipeline incidents.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-12113
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Direct final rule (DFR); request for comments
- Agency
- Transportation Department; Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- Published
- July 1, 2025
- Takes effect
- October 9, 2025
- Comments due
- September 2, 2025
- Dates
- The DFR is effective October 9, 2025, unless adverse comments are received by September 2, 2025. If adverse comments are received, notification will be published in the Federal Register before the effective date either withdrawing the rule (in its entirety or portions thereof) or issuing a new final rule which responds to those comments.
- Docket
- Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0109; Amdt. Nos. 191-36, 195-115
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2137-AF78
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 49 CFR 191; 49 CFR 195
- Topics
- Natural gas; Pipeline safety; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 5
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