# Emergency plans

**Citation:** RCSA § 16-280b-B24  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority  
**Effective:** 2025-06-11  
**Published:** 2025-06-11

(a) Each Operator shall maintain all reports of suspected Gas odors or potential leaks, including audio Recordings of telephone calls. (b) Each Operator shall offer training at least once each calendar year, but at intervals not exceeding 15 months, to each fire department having responsibilities in the area where the 

## Document text

(a) Each Operator shall maintain all reports of suspected Gas odors or potential leaks, including audio Recordings of telephone calls. (b) Each Operator shall offer training at least once each calendar year, but at intervals not exceeding 15 months, to each fire department having responsibilities in the area where the Operator's Pipeline Facilities are located. This offer of training shall inform fire departments of the following: (1) not operating any below-ground valves; 33 (2) the hazards involved with extinguishing Gas fed fires; and (3) not going into unoccupied buildings with leaking Gas inside. (c) In towns containing Pipeline Facilities operated by more than one Operator, the training shall be coordinated jointly between such Operators.

## 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: `4aa54f3fd730dc0f7e04aadc6f9469518a0e852b2487dcf8b156a94d5c1de706`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T07:07:58.041Z
- Exported: 2026-08-22T08:45:49.421Z
- Document slug: `ct-rcsa-16-280b-b24`

### Source metadata

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  "jurisdiction": "US-CT",
  "subtitle": "16-280b",
  "series": "B",
  "sectionNumber": 24,
  "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.",
  "rightsReviewRequired": true,
  "region": "CT"
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