# Abandonment or deactivation of facilities

**Citation:** RCSA § 16-280b-A68  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority  
**Effective:** 2025-06-11  
**Published:** 2025-06-11

(a) Not later than 1 year after all customers are no longer being billed for the use of any particular Service Line, each Operator shall Abandon such Service Line, except for a cathodically protected steel or plastic Service Line, which shall be Abandoned not later than 5 years after such customers are no longer being 

## Document text

(a) Not later than 1 year after all customers are no longer being billed for the use of any particular Service Line, each Operator shall Abandon such Service Line, except for a cathodically protected steel or plastic Service Line, which shall be Abandoned not later than 5 years after such customers are no longer being billed for the use of such protected steel or plastic Service Line. (b) Not later than 6 months after a Service Line is Placed In Service for a customer, all other Service Lines supplying that customer, where the customer is no longer being billed for the use of the other Service Lines, shall be Abandoned. (c) Not later than 90 calendar days after only a Curb Valve is closed to terminate service to a customer, the Service Line shall be Abandoned, unless approved by the Authority in writing. (d) Abandonment of Service Lines shall include: (1) disconnecting the Service Line at the connection to the Main, unless the Service Line is Abandoned by Abandoning a Main; (2) closing all Curb Valves; (3) removing the top section of valve boxes or Vaults and filling the void with suitable compacted material, except for valve boxes or Vaults set in concrete or asphalt, which shall be filled with suitable compacted material to an appropriate distance from the top of the valve box or Vault and then filled completely with suitable paving material; 22 (4) removing any above-ground portion of the Service Line and capping the Service Line at an appropriate depth below-ground; and (5) capping the end of the Service Line inside the building as close to the building wall as practical when a Service Line enters a building below-ground. (e) Previously Abandoned pipe shall not be used in the Transportation Of Gas, unless approved by the Authority in writing.

## 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: `5db24468cf1e58942dec97b5c0e3030a97b2e4177534be691f9d35ebfc566cf1`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T07:07:58.041Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T10:17:23.623Z
- Document slug: `ct-rcsa-16-280b-a68`

### Source metadata

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  "jurisdiction": "US-CT",
  "subtitle": "16-280b",
  "series": "A",
  "sectionNumber": 68,
  "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.",
  "publicationCaveat": "The authenticated final filing was posted to the Connecticut eRegulations System and became effective June 11, 2025. It is used instead of the older browse pages, some of which still display pre-2025 text and stale update labels.",
  "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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