# Crossings of highways, railroads, and rivers.

**Citation:** 199 IAC 10.11  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Iowa Utilities Commission  
**Effective:** 2025-07-16  
**Published:** 2026-08-19

10.11(1) Approval of other authorities, such as highway and railroad authorities and environmental agencies, need not be obtained prior to petitioning the commission for a pipeline permit. It is recommended that the appropriate other authorities be contacted to determine what restrictions or conditi

## Document text

10.11(1) Approval of other authorities, such as highway and railroad authorities and environmental agencies, need not be obtained prior to petitioning the commission for a pipeline permit. It is recommended that the appropriate other authorities be contacted to determine what restrictions or conditions may be placed on the crossing by those authorities and to obtain information on any proposed reconstruction or relocation of existing facilities that may impact the routing of the pipeline. Approvals and any restrictions, conditions, or relocations of existing facilities shall be filed with the commission prior to the granting of the permit. A pipeline company may request commission approval to begin construction on a segment of a pipeline prior to obtaining all necessary consents for construction of the entire pipeline.

10.11(2) Pipeline routes that include crossings of highway or railroad right-of-way longitudinally on such right-of-way are not to be constructed unless a showing of consent by the appropriate authority has been provided by the pipeline company as required in paragraph 10.3(1)"e."

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/ACO/IAC/LINC/Chapter.199.10.pdf>
- Source ID: `ia-legislature-pipeline-safety`
- SHA-256: `9de7d706853ca01bbaf6afa3e56f5764f29999b7075dd77709b4527c9d1b350b`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T08:17:15.771Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T12:28:20.430Z
- Document slug: `ia-iac-199-10-11`

### Source metadata

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  "chapter": "199 IAC chapter 10",
  "exactScope": "This bounded corpus contains every current rule in 199 IAC chapters 10 and 19, the two chapters identified by the Iowa Utilities Commission pipeline-safety page, plus 15 selected Iowa Code sections that directly establish gas-utility applicability, inspection and rulemaking authority, enforcement, penalties, and acceptance of federal pipeline-safety aid. It does not claim all Iowa pipeline law or all of Iowa Code chapters 476 and 479.",
  "excludedScope": "Excluded are hazardous-liquid safety (which the IUC says remains exclusively with PHMSA), hazardous-liquid permitting in 199 IAC chapter 13 and Iowa Code chapter 479B, damage prevention and one-call law, agricultural restoration chapter 9, railroad-crossing chapter 42, general procedure and filing chapters, permits/orders/forms, privately owned propane service, and federal or private incorporated text. Former 199 IAC chapter 12 is inventoried as repealed and is not searchable.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Applicability depends on IUC jurisdiction, public-utility or pipeline-company status, intrastate versus interstate status, the gas and facility involved, customer count, rate regulation, exemptions, federal preemption, waivers, permits, tariffs, and Commission orders. Iowa inspects interstate gas operators only as PHMSA's agent; federal authorities retain enforcement. Chapter 19 is limited to rate-regulated gas utilities except where another law or order extends a duty.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "The rules incorporate or reference 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, and 199; ASME B31.8-2022; NFPA 59-2024, NFPA 54-2024, and NFPA 501A-2021; other Iowa rules and statutes; federal forms and interpretations; and utility tariffs. The connector records citations but does not reproduce incorporated federal or private material, decide which edition controls beyond the state text, or grant rights in private standards.",
  "publicationCaveat": "The current IAC chapter listings dated August 5, 2026 are used to prove chapter and rule inventory; their official PDF and DOCX-formatted 'RTF' artifacts are archived independently. The official 2026 Iowa Code was published December 22, 2025. The live 2026 Code & Acts Sections Amended report is provisional; signed HF 2799 sections 23 and 24, effective July 1, 2026, are preserved as overlays to selected sections 476.1B and 476.2. Any unexpected selected-section amendment causes refresh failure.",
  "rights": "Iowa legal text and other government edicts are preserved with official attribution and cryptographic provenance. Public access does not grant rights in agency seals, website presentation, forms, utility filings, incorporated federal compilations, or privately authored standards; redistribution of those materials requires a separate rights review.",
  "references": [],
  "sourceHistory": "[ARC 9348C, IAB 6/11/25, effective 7/16/25]",
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