# HAR 6-77-105 Cover **Citation:** HAR 6-77-105 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Hawaii Public Utilities Commission **Effective:** 1994-09-03 **Published:** 1994-04-15 transmission line must be installed with a minimum cover as follows: _____________________________________________________________________ │ Normal │ Consolidated Location │ soil │ rock Inches _____________________________________ Class 1 locations.............│ 30 │ 18 Class 2, 3, and 4 locations.. ## Document text transmission line must be installed with a minimum cover as follows: _____________________________________________________________________ │ Normal │ Consolidated Location │ soil │ rock Inches _____________________________________ Class 1 locations.............│ 30 │ 18 Class 2, 3, and 4 locations...│ 36 │ 24 Drainage ditches of public │ │ roads and railroad crossings.│ 36 │ 24 │ │ (b) Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d), each buried main must be installed with at least twenty-four inches of cover. (c) Where an underground structure prevents the installation of a transmission line or main with the minimum cover, the transmission line or main may be installed with less cover if it is provided with additional protection to withstand anticipated external loads. (d) A main may be installed with less than twenty-four inches of cover if the law of the State or municipality: (1) Establishes a minimum cover of less than twenty-four inches; (2) Requires that mains be installed in a common trench with other utility lines; and (3) Provides adequately for prevention of damage to the pipe by external forces. (e) All pipe which is installed in a navigable river, stream, or harbor must have minimum cover of forty-eight inches in soil or twenty-four inches in consolidated rock, and all pipe installed in any offshore location under water less than twelve feet deep, as measured from mean low tide, must have a minimum cover of thirty-six inches in soil or eighteen inches in consolidated rock, between the top of the pipe and the natural bottom. However, less than the minimum cover is permitted in accordance with subsection (c). [Eff ] (Auth: HRS '269-6) (Imp: 49 C.F.R. '192.327, October 1, 1990) Subchapter 10 Customer Meters, Service Regulators, and Service Lines ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `hi-puc-har-6-77` - SHA-256: `7816859d90888458ea7e5447f8a09340d36b182e1747e31ade5bce30e8d64de7` - Retrieved: 2026-08-12T08:22:24.168Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T20:41:08.653Z - Document slug: `hi-har-har-6-77-105` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-HI", "chapter": "HAR Chapter 6-77", "provisionKind": "section", "adoptedOn": "1994-04-15", "filedOn": "1994-08-24", "exactEffectiveDateAvailableInPublication": true, "publicationStatus": "officially-published-superseded-slated-for-repeal", "phmsaProgramParticipant": false, "stateCertificationRepresented": false, "federalInspectionAndEnforcement": [ "interstate gas", "intrastate gas", "interstate hazardous liquid", "intrastate hazardous liquid" ], "fixedFederalBaseline": "1990-10-01", "editorialModernizationApplied": false, "references": [ { "citation": "49 CFR 192.327", "referenceType": "federal_regulation", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/section-192.327", "incorporatedEdition": "1990-10-01" }, { "citation": "HRS 269-6", "referenceType": "state_statute", "url": "https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol05_Ch0261-0319/HRS0269/HRS_0269-0006.htm" } ], "caveats": { "exactScope": "Complete substantive text of the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission publication of HAR Chapter 6-77: 196 non-reserved numbered sections and Appendices A through D. Four expressly reserved section slots are inventory-only. The PUC's April 2026 page links a 160-page signed scan; an official 178-page text-layer copy from Budget and Finance is used as the higher-quality transcription aid. The publication is an April 15, 1994 adoption, filed August 24 and effective September 3, 1994, based on the October 1, 1990 federal text; it is not a current restatement of federal pipeline standards.", "applicability": "Hawaii is not represented as certified, as an agreement state, or as an interstate agent under the PHMSA federal-state pipeline safety program. PHMSA states that its Office of Pipeline Safety inspects and enforces federal pipeline safety regulations for interstate and intrastate gas and hazardous-liquid pipelines in Hawaii. Chapter 6-77 may remain relevant as published state utility material, but it must not be used to infer current Hawaii inspection or enforcement authority.", "currentness": "The Hawaii PUC still links Chapter 6-77 on its official rules page, updated April 2026. Hawaii's official 2022 periodic rules-review report separately says Chapter 6-77 is to be repealed, was superseded by statute and a federal takeover letter, and cites 2009 Act 25. Because the PUC page does not mark the chapter repealed, this connector preserves the published text with an explicit superseded/slated-for-repeal warning rather than declaring an unproved completed administrative repeal.", "incorporation": "The chapter repeatedly identifies the October 1, 1990 edition of 49 CFR Parts 191 and 192 and its appendices as the implemented source. That fixed, obsolete baseline is preserved exactly. Current federal text, later amendments, and current editions of incorporated private standards must not be silently substituted when researching what this publication says.", "excludedScope": "This connector excludes HAR Chapter 6-83 one-call damage prevention, utility rates and service standards, statutes as standalone documents, dockets, orders, tariffs, federal text, current federal amendments, and the full text of incorporated private standards. Those materials require separate completeness, currentness, applicability, and rights analysis.", "rights": "Official Hawaii and PHMSA artifacts are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public access does not establish unrestricted rights in site presentation, state marks, forms, or incorporated private standards. The connector records citations to private standards but makes no independent rights claim for those works." }, "region": "HI" } ```