# HAR 6-77-12 Reporting safety-related conditions

**Citation:** HAR 6-77-12  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Hawaii Public Utilities Commission  
**Effective:** 1994-09-03  
**Published:** 1994-04-15

each operator shall report in accordance with section 6-77-13 and 49 C.F.R. '191.25 the existence of any of the following safety-related conditions involving facilities in service: (1) In the case of a pipeline (other than an LNG facility) that operates at a hoop stress of twenty percent or more of 

## Document text

each operator shall report in accordance with section 6-77-13 and 49 C.F.R. '191.25 the existence of any of the following safety-related conditions involving facilities in service: (1) In the case of a pipeline (other than an LNG facility) that operates at a hoop stress of twenty percent or more of its specified minimum yield strength, general corrosion that has reduced the wall thickness to less than that required for the maximum allowable operating pressure, and localized corrosion pitting to a degree where leakage might result; (2) Unintended movement or abnormal loading by environmental causes, such as an earthquake, landslide, or flood, that impairs the serviceability of a pipeline or the structural integrity or reliability of an LNG facility that contains, controls, or processes gas or LNG; (3) Any crack or other material defect that impairs the structural integrity or reliability of an LNG facility that contains, controls, or processes gas or LNG; (4) Any material defect or physical damage that impairs the serviceability of a pipeline that operates at a hoop stress of twenty percent or more of its specified minimum yield strength; (5) Any malfunction or operating error that causes the pressure of a pipeline or LNG facility that contains or processes gas or LNG to rise above its maximum allowable operating pressure (or working pressure for LNG facilities) plus the build-up allowed for operation of pressure limiting or control devices; (6) A leak in a pipeline or LNG facility that contains or processes gas or LNG that constitutes an emergency; (7) Inner tank leakage, ineffective insulation, or frost heave that impairs the structural integrity of an LNG storage tank; (8) Any safety-related condition that could lead to an imminent hazard and causes (either directly or indirectly by remedial action of the operator), for purposes other than abandonment, a twenty percent or more reduction in operating pressure or shutdown of operation of a pipeline or an LNG facility that contains or processes gas or LNG. (b) A report is not required for any safety-related condition that: (1) Exists on a master meter system or a customer-owned service line; (2) Is an incident or results in an incident before the deadline for filing the safety-related condition report; (3) Exists on a pipeline (other than an LNG facility) that is more than 220 yards from any building intended for human occupancy or outdoor place of assembly, except that reports are required for conditions within the right-of-way of an active railroad, paved road, street, or highway; or (4) Is corrected by repair or replacement in accordance with applicable safety standards before the deadline for filing the safety-related condition report, except that reports are required for conditions under subsection (a)(1) other than localized corrosion pitting on an effectively coated and cathodically protected pipeline. [Eff ] (Auth: HRS '269-6) (Imp: 49 C.F.R. '191.23, October 1, 1990)

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://puc.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HAR-6-77-Transp-of-Gas-03-31-2026.pdf>
- Source ID: `hi-puc-har-6-77`
- SHA-256: `2aef75b5fb3428ef0062dfaf8c107fa1cb964354439290d35c53bdc9ac978bd5`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T08:22:24.168Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T01:12:22.490Z
- Document slug: `hi-har-har-6-77-12`

### Source metadata

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  "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 191.25",
      "referenceType": "federal_regulation",
      "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/section-191.25",
      "incorporatedEdition": "1990-10-01"
    },
    {
      "citation": "49 CFR 191.23",
      "referenceType": "federal_regulation",
      "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/section-191.23",
      "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"
    },
    {
      "citation": "HAR 6-77-13",
      "referenceType": "state_regulation",
      "url": "https://puc.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HAR-6-77-Transp-of-Gas-03-31-2026.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "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"
}
```