Pipeline Safety: Clarifying Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Integrity Management Guidance

What it does

This DFR makes corrections and clarifications to certain guidance for implementing an integrity management program on hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipelines.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

49 CFR 195

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has published 67 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 42 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 2137-AG24 since Jan. 1, 2025.

Since then:

• July 31, 2026 Withdrawal of direct final rule (DFR). Pipeline Safety: Clarifying Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Integrity Management Guidance

What happens next and when

The DFR is effective August 3, 2026, unless adverse comments are received by June 23, 2026. If adverse comments are received, notification will be published in the Federal Register before the effective date withdrawing the rule and publishing a notice of proposed rulemaking to provide an additional opportunity for public comment.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket PHMSA-2026-1520 on Regulations.gov
• Title 49 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register