# HAR 6-77-181 Transmission lines: permanent field repair of leaks **Citation:** HAR 6-77-181 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Hawaii Public Utilities Commission **Effective:** 1994-09-03 **Published:** 1994-04-15 in subsection (b), each permanent field repair of a leak on a transmission line must be made as follows: (1) If feasible, the segment of transmission line must be taken out of service and repaired by cutting out a cylindrical piece of pipe and replacing it with pipe of similar or greater design stre ## Document text in subsection (b), each permanent field repair of a leak on a transmission line must be made as follows: (1) If feasible, the segment of transmission line must be taken out of service and repaired by cutting out a cylindrical piece of pipe and replacing it with pipe of similar or greater design strength; (2) If it is not feasible to take the segment of transmission line out of service, repairs must be made by installing a full encirclement welded split sleeve of appropriate design, unless the transmission line: (A) Is jointed by mechanical couplings; and (B) Operates at less than forty percent of SMYS; (3) If the leak is due to a corrosion pit, the repair may be made by installing a properly designed bolt-on-leak clamp; or, if the leak is due to a corrosion pit and on pipe of not more than 40,000 p.s.i. SMYS, the repair may be made by fillet welding over the pitted area a steel plate patch with rounded corners, of the same or greater thickness than the pipe, and not more than one-half of the diameter of the pipe in size. (b) Submerged offshore pipelines and submerged pipelines in inland navigable waters may be repaired by mechanically applying a full encirclement split sleeve of appropriate design over the leak. [Eff ] (Auth: HRS '269-6) (Imp: 49 C.F.R. '192.717, October 1, 1990) ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `hi-puc-har-6-77` - SHA-256: `a7018b8c6ee2975f0449037a51dd74e86c65d1aa10d20f442de4fe100d5029a9` - Retrieved: 2026-08-12T08:22:24.168Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T01:36:34.436Z - Document slug: `hi-har-har-6-77-181` ### 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"filedOn": "1994-08-24", "exactEffectiveDateAvailableInPublication": true, "publicationStatus": "officially-published-superseded-slated-for-repeal", "phmsaProgramParticipant": false, "stateCertificationRepresented": false, "federalInspectionAndEnforcement": [ "interstate gas",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 192.717", "referenceType": "federal_regulation", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/section-192.717", "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" } ```