# SARR 301 Immediate Reporting of Fatalities and Certain Accidents and Major Natural Gas Interruptions **Citation:** SARR 301 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Idaho Public Utilities Commission **Effective:** 2022-08-15 **Published:** 2022-08-01 An adjacent multi-utility accident or natural-gas interruption reporting provision that expressly includes pipeline-related obligations. ## Document text 301. Immediate Reporting of Fatalities and Certain Accidents and Major Natural Gas Interruptions. 01. Fatality and Hospitalization Reporting. Whenever any employee of an electrical corporation, gas corporation, pipeline corporation, telephone corporation, or water corporation or any member of the public dies or requires in- patient hospitalization as a result of contact with or proximity to utility operating property, the utility must notify the Commission Secretary of the fatality or hospitalization by email and telephone within 24 hours following discovery of the fatality or reporting of the hospitalization. Reports must be made to the Commission Secretary at both (208) 334-0338 and secretary@puc.idaho.gov. (08-15-22) 02. Operating Property -- Motor Vehicle Accident Exception. As used in this rule, operating property means electric plant as defined in Section 61-118, Idaho Code, gas plant as defined in Section 61-116, Idaho Code, pipelines as defined in Section 61-114, Idaho Code, telephone line as defined in Section 61-120, Idaho Code, or water systems as defined in Section 61-124, Idaho Code. This reporting rule does not apply to fatalities and hospitalizations arising out of motor vehicle accidents, even if the motor vehicle later comes into contact with utility plant. Office buildings or portions of office buildings not associated with the physical delivery of utility services or commodities are not considered operating property. (7-01-21) 03. Major Service Interruptions or Damage to Natural Gas Pipelines. The Commission incorporates by reference Section 260.9, Title 18, the Code of Federal Regulations (April 1, 2009). Every natural gas corporation must report serious damage to natural gas facilities and serious interruptions of service to the Commission. Natural gas corporations should also report other serious damage not caused by natural disaster or terrorism if such damages create the potential for serious delivery problems on its own system or the pipeline grid. (3-29-10) ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `id-puc-sarr-order-35474` - SHA-256: `240fa200f0b184015068d5926b8bfea85143af05dcd9dac75206113f70aad279` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T09:44:37.710Z - Exported: 2026-08-22T11:46:19.801Z - Document slug: `id-sarr-301` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-ID", "state": "Idaho", "exactScope": "The searchable rule corpus contains every current provision in the Commission's Safety and Accident Reporting Rules that governs, defines, supports, or expressly includes gas or pipeline corporations: SARR 000-008, 201, and 301-303. SARR 201 is the only direct pipeline-safety standards provision. SARR 301-303 are adjacent multi-utility accident and service-interruption reporting provisions, not general pipeline-design or operating standards. Electric-only SARR 101 is inventoried but excluded. SARR 009-100, 102-200, 202-300, and 304-999 are expressly reserved and contain no operative provisions. The separate railroad appendix in Order 35474 is outside this connector.", "lifecycleCaveat": "Former IDAPA 31.11.01 expired on July 1, 2021 after the Legislature did not extend it. Order 35095 adopted replacement Safety and Accident Reporting Rules by order effective July 1, 2021. Order 35474 amended SARR 301.01 effective August 15, 2022 and republishes the current SARR text as Appendix A. Although that text retains IDAPA-style numbering and says its official citation is IDAPA 31.11.01, the PUC's statutes-and-rules page identifies Order 35474 as the Safety and Accident Reporting Rules; the administrative-rules URL linked from the PUC rules page currently resolves to a missing artifact.", "incorporationCaveat": "SARR 201 incorporates 18 CFR 260.9 as of April 1, 2017 and 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, 195, and 199 as of October 1, 2017. SARR 301.03 separately incorporates 18 CFR 260.9 as of April 1, 2009. These are dated incorporations. The connector preserves Idaho's text and references but does not silently substitute current federal text or reproduce incorporated material.", "applicabilityCaveat": "The rule text applies to gas and pipeline corporations subject to Commission jurisdiction. Idaho Code 61-114 defines pipeline broadly and SARR 201 names 49 CFR Part 195, but the PUC's current pipeline page describes annual inspection of natural-gas operators and its program materials describe gas-pipeline authority. Inclusion of Part 195 is therefore not a claim that Idaho currently has PHMSA-delegated hazardous-liquid enforcement authority. Confirm commodity, facility, intrastate status, operator classification, Commission jurisdiction, and federal preemption before applying the rules.", "publicationCaveat": "Currentness is established from the PUC's live rules and statutes-and-rules pages, the current Order 35474 artifact they identify, Order 35095's explicit transition, and current Legislature section pages. Retrieval dates and HTTP headers are provenance only. The connector emits timeline events only for the two effective dates expressly stated in the orders.", "rights": "Official Idaho PUC, Office of Administrative Rules, and Legislature materials are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public availability does not resolve rights in seals, marks, site presentation, attachments, incorporated standards, or third-party works; downstream redistribution requires separate review.", "rightsReviewRequired": true, "layer": "commission-order-rule", "formerAdministrativeCitation": "IDAPA 31.11.01.301", "currentCitation": "SARR 301", "scopeClass": "adjacent-utility-reporting", "directPipelineRule": false, "adjacentUtilityReporting": true, "sourceDateAnnotations": [ "2010-03-29", "2021-07-01", "2022-08-15" ], "references": [ { "citation": "Idaho Code 61-118", "referenceType": "state-statute", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title61/T61CH1/SECT61-118/" }, { "citation": "Idaho Code 61-116", "referenceType": "state-statute", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title61/T61CH1/SECT61-116/" }, { "citation": "Idaho Code 61-114", "referenceType": "state-statute", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title61/T61CH1/SECT61-114/" }, { "citation": "Idaho Code 61-120", "referenceType": "state-statute", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title61/T61CH1/SECT61-120/" }, { "citation": "Idaho Code 61-124", "referenceType": "state-statute", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title61/T61CH1/SECT61-124/" }, { "citation": "18 CFR 260.9", "referenceType": "federal-regulation", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-18/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-260/section-260.9" } ], "region": "ID" } ```