# SARR 302 Written Reporting of Accidents and Natural Gas Interruptions **Citation:** SARR 302 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Idaho Public Utilities Commission **Effective:** 2021-07-01 **Published:** 2021-06-30 An adjacent multi-utility accident or natural-gas interruption reporting provision that expressly includes pipeline-related obligations. ## Document text 302. Written Reporting of Accidents and Natural Gas Interruptions. 01. Reporting Required. In addition to any telephone reporting required under Rule 301, a written report shall be submitted for: (7-01-21) a. Every accident involving an employee of the utility or member of the public that results in a fatality or in-patient hospitalization; (7-01-21) b. Any other accident the utility finds significant; or (7-01-21) c. Serious damage or service interruption of natural gas pipelines. (7-01-21) 02. Submitting the Written Report. All written reports shall be submitted to the Commission within twenty one (21) days after the fatality or hospitalization is discovered. Reports regarding serious damage or service interruption shall be submitted at the earliest feasible time. Reports should be mailed to: COMMISSION SECRETARY IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION PO BOX 83720 BOISE, ID 83720-0074 Copies of such reports may also be provided by facsimile at (208) 334-3762 or by electronic mail at secretary@puc.idaho.gov. (7-01-21) 03. Contents of Written Accident Report. There is no standard form for written reports prescribed by this rule. Gas companies may file copies of reports submitted to federal regulators under 49 C.F.R. Part 191. All reports submitted shall contain the following information: (7-01-21) a. Name of person(s) involved in the accident; (7-01-21) b. Status of persons involved in the accident (e.g., employees, children, contractors, etc.); (7-01-21) c. Time of day, day of the week and month, and location of the accident or discovery of the accident; (4-2-08) d. Description of the accident and events leading up to the accident; and (7-01-21) e. The company name, contact person, e-mail address and direct telephone number of the reporting official. (3-29-10) 04. Contents of Written Report Involving Damage or Interruption to Natural Gas Facilities. All written reports shall provide the following information: (7-01-21) a. The location and cause of the service interruption or damage to natural gas pipeline or storage facilities; (4-2-08) b. The nature of the serious damage to pipeline or storage facility; (7-01-21) c. The specific identification and location of any facilities damaged; (7-01-21) d. The time the service interruption or damage to facilities occurred; (7-01-21) e. The customers affected by the interruption of service or damage to facilities; (7-01-21) f. A brief description of emergency actions taken to maintain service; (7-01-21) g. An estimate of the time (if available) when pipeline throughput or storage deliverables are expected to be restored; and (7-01-21) h. The company name, contact person, e-mail address and direct telephone number of the reporting official. (7-01-21) ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `id-puc-sarr-order-35474` - SHA-256: `486a17fd703fb773d9f22ca744c91ad316f56e1015b890b878123b80ba200214` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T09:44:37.710Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T01:49:12.504Z - Document slug: `id-sarr-302` ### 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 31.11.01.302", "currentCitation": "SARR 302", "scopeClass": "adjacent-utility-reporting", "directPipelineRule": false, "adjacentUtilityReporting": true, "sourceDateAnnotations": [ "2008-04-02", "2010-03-29", "2021-07-01" ], "references": [ { "citation": "49 CFR Part 191", "referenceType": "federal-regulation", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-191" } ], "region": "ID" } ```