# Test Points

**Citation:** RCSA § 16-280b-A53  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority  
**Effective:** 2025-06-11  
**Published:** 2025-06-11

(a) For purposes of this section, "Test Point" means a designated location to be used for electrical measurement to determine the adequacy of cathodic protection. (b) Sufficient, as used in 49 CFR 192.469, as amended from time to time, means: (1) at least one Test Point per 1,000 feet of Main being cathodically protect

## Document text

(a) For purposes of this section, "Test Point" means a designated location to be used for electrical measurement to determine the adequacy of cathodic protection. (b) Sufficient, as used in 49 CFR 192.469, as amended from time to time, means: (1) at least one Test Point per 1,000 feet of Main being cathodically protected by only galvanic anodes; (2) at least one Test Point per 2,500 feet of Main being cathodically protected by impressed current rectifiers; (3) at least two Test Points for any system with over 100 feet of Main; (4) distributed throughout each cathodic protection system; (5) at locations suitable to assess the extremities of each cathodic protection system; (6) adequate to demonstrate the functionality of bonds; (7) not within groundbed or anode gradients, as practicable; and (8) at each metallic Conduit greater than 10 feet in length with metallic contacts for both the Conduit and the Main. (c) A Test Point shall be added in any location where Pipe under cathodic protection is exposed to repair a corrosion leak, unless a Test Point currently exists within 500 feet of the leak.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://eregulations.ct.gov/eRegsPortal/Search/getDocument?guid=%7BE04F6097-0000-CC1C-9D68-25A0BA411C82%7D>
- Source ID: `ct-sots-rcsa-16-280b`
- SHA-256: `6377a9d6afc56521725167e8a28f65bf2d63565cc19f35e555cb5ee1a0da5ba8`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T07:07:58.041Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T01:23:22.384Z
- Document slug: `ct-rcsa-16-280b-a53`

### Source metadata

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  "subtitle": "16-280b",
  "series": "A",
  "sectionNumber": 53,
  "secretaryFileNumber": 6446,
  "trackingNumber": "PR2023-019",
  "effectiveDateEvidence": "Secretary of the State confirmation states that the regulation became effective June 11, 2025.",
  "scopeCaveat": "This corpus contains all 117 dedicated pipeline-safety sections newly codified as RCSA 16-280b-A1 through A75, B1 through B32, and C1 through C10 by Connecticut Secretary of the State File Number 6446. The filing also amends four adjacent legacy utility provisions and repeals eleven obsolete 16-11 provisions; those actions are retained as provenance and inventory rather than mixed into the dedicated searchable corpus.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Applicability varies by natural-gas or petroleum-gas operator, public-service-company status, pipeline facility, master-meter or petroleum-gas distribution system, activity, waiver, and federal jurisdiction. PURA states that Connecticut has no intrastate transmission or gathering lines and that hazardous-liquid pipelines remain under PHMSA jurisdiction.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "The rules supplement and repeatedly incorporate federal pipeline requirements, generally as amended from time to time, and rely on Connecticut statutes and external standards. References are recorded without reproducing incorporated material or deciding federal preemption or facility-specific legal effect.",
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  "rights": "Official Connecticut legal and agency materials are retained with attribution and cryptographic provenance. State marks, site presentation, forms, annotations, and incorporated federal or privately authored material require separate review.",
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