Pipeline Safety: Property Damage Definition for Reporting Incidents on Gas Pipelines and Accidents on Hazardous Liquid and Carbon Dioxide Pipelines

What it does

PHMSA proposes to revise the definition of property damage for determining when a release from a gas, hazardous liquid, or carbon dioxide pipeline facility meets the definition of a reportable incident or accident, including for immediate notifications to the National Response Center. This NPRM addresses comments received in response to a now-withdrawn direct final rule covering the same topic.

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

What it would change

2 parts of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

49 CFR 191, 49 CFR 195

Before this

2 earlier Federal Register documents under regulation identifier 2137-AF78 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Oct. 2, 2025 Withdrawal of direct final rule (DFR). Pipeline Safety: Property Damage Definition for Incident Reporting on Gas Pipelines and Accidents on Hazardous Liquid Pipelines
• July 1, 2025 Direct final rule (DFR); request for comments. Pipeline Safety: Property Damage Definition for Incident Reporting on Gas Pipelines and Accidents on Hazardous Liquid Pipelines

What happens next and when

Comments must be received on or before June 23, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket PHMSA-2025-0109 on Regulations.gov
• Title 49 on eCFR

The record as published

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