# HAR 6-77-146 Test requirements for pipelines to operate at a hoop stress less than thirty

**Citation:** HAR 6-77-146  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Hawaii Public Utilities Commission  
**Effective:** 1994-09-03  
**Published:** 1994-04-15

percent of SMYS and at or above 100 p.s.i.g. Except for service lines and plastic pipelines, each segment of a pipeline that is to be operated at a hoop stress less than thirty percent of SMYS and at or above 100 p.s.i.g. must be tested in accordance with the following: (1) The pipeline operator mus

## Document text

percent of SMYS and at or above 100 p.s.i.g. Except for service lines and plastic pipelines, each segment of a pipeline that is to be operated at a hoop stress less than thirty percent of SMYS and at or above 100 p.s.i.g. must be tested in accordance with the following: (1) The pipeline operator must use a test procedure that will ensure discovery of all potentially hazardous leaks in the segment being tested; (2) If, during the test, the segment is to be stressed to twenty percent or more of SMYS and natural gas, inert gas, or air is the test medium: (A) A leak test must be made at a pressure between 100 p.s.i.g. and the pressure required to produce a hoop stress of 20 percent of SMYS; or (B) The line must be walked to check for leaks while the hoop stress is held at approximately twenty percent of SMYS; (3) The pressure must be maintained at or above the test pressure for at least ] (Auth: HRS '269-6) (Imp: 49 C.F.R. '192.507, October 1, one hour. [Eff 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`
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- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T08:22:24.168Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T04:35:27.422Z
- Document slug: `hi-har-har-6-77-146`

### Source metadata

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  "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  "publicationStatus": "officially-published-superseded-slated-for-repeal",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 192.507",
      "referenceType": "federal_regulation",
      "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/section-192.507",
      "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"
}
```