# HAR 6-77-164 Emergency plans

**Citation:** HAR 6-77-164  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Hawaii Public Utilities Commission  
**Effective:** 1994-09-03  
**Published:** 1994-04-15

minimize the hazard resulting from a gas pipeline emergency. At a minimum, the procedures must provide for the following: (1) Receiving, identifying, and classifying notices of events which require immediate response by the operator; (2) Establishing and maintaining adequate means of communication w

## Document text

minimize the hazard resulting from a gas pipeline emergency. At a minimum, the procedures must provide for the following: (1) Receiving, identifying, and classifying notices of events which require immediate response by the operator; (2) Establishing and maintaining adequate means of communication with appropriate fire, police, and other public officials; (3) Prompt and effective response to a notice of each type of emergency, including the following: (A) Gas detected inside or near a building; (B) Fire located near or directly involving a pipeline facility; (C) Explosion occurring near or directly involving a pipeline facility; and (D) Natural disaster; (4) The availability of personnel, equipment, tools, and materials, as needed at the scene of an emergency; (5) Actions directed toward protecting people first and then property; (6) Emergency shutdown and pressure reduction in any section of the operator's pipeline system necessary to minimize hazards to life or property; (7) Making safe any actual or potential hazard to life or property; (8) Notifying appropriate fire, police, and other public officials of gas pipeline emergencies and coordinating with them both planned responses and actual responses during an emergency; (9) Safely restoring any service outage; and (10) Beginning action under section 6-77-165, if applicable, as soon after the end of the emergency as possible. (b) Each operator shall: (1) Furnish its supervisors who are responsible for emergency action a copy of that portion of the latest edition of the emergency procedures established under subsection (a) as necessary for compliance with those procedures; (2) Train the appropriate operating personnel to assure that they are knowledgeable of the emergency procedures and verify that the training is effective; and (3) Review employee activities to determine whether the procedures were effectively followed in each emergency. (c) Each operator shall establish and maintain liaison with appropriate fire, police, and other public officials to: (1) Learn the responsibility and resources of each government organization that may respond to a gas pipeline emergency; (2) Acquaint the officials with the operator's ability in responding to a gas pipeline emergency; (3) Identify the types of gas pipeline emergencies of which the operator notifies the officials; and (4) Plan how the operator and officials can engage in mutual assistance to minimize hazards to life or property. (d) Each operator shall establish a continuing educational program to enable customers, the public, appropriate government organizations, and persons engaged in excavation related activities to recognize a gas pipeline emergency for the purpose of reporting it to the operator or the appropriate public officials. The program and the media used must be as comprehensive as necessary to reach all areas in which the operator transports gas. The program must be conducted in English and in other languages commonly understood by a significant number and concentration of the non- English speaking population in the operator's area. [Eff ] (Auth: HRS '269-6) (Imp: 49 C.F.R. '192.615, 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: `7c4ca1a48dae1282e70c0c140b634653cb4087a2e388ccd794d93301b74c5322`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T08:22:24.168Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T12:41:43.551Z
- Document slug: `hi-har-har-6-77-164`

### 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 192.615",
      "referenceType": "federal_regulation",
      "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/section-192.615",
      "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 6-77-165",
      "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"
}
```