# 38.5.2302 INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF FEDERAL PIPELINE SAFETY REGULATIONS -- DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS **Citation:** ARM 38.5.2302 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Montana Public Service Commission **Effective:** 2026-01-24 **Published:** Not stated Current Montana pipeline-safety rule 38.5.2302. ## Document text 38.5.2302 INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF FEDERAL PIPELINE SAFETY REGULATIONS -- DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, the commission adopts and incorporates by reference the DOT Pipeline Safety Regulations, Drug and Alcohol Testing, 49 CFR 199, including all revisions and amendments enacted by DOT on or before November 25, 2025. A copy of the referenced CFRs is available from the United States Department of Transportation, Office of Pipeline Safety, Western Region, 12300 West Dakota Avenue, Suite 110, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, or may be reviewed at the Public Service Commission Offices, 1701 Prospect Avenue, Helena, Montana 59620-2601. Authorizing statute(s): 69-3-207, MCA Implementing statute(s): 69-3-207, MCA History: NEW, 1995 MAR p. 2425, Eff. 11/10/95; AMD & TRANS, from ARM 38.5.2327, 1997 MAR p. 317, Eff. 2/11/97; AMD, 1998 MAR p. 180, Eff. 1/16/98; AMD, 1999 MAR p. 153, Eff. 1/15/99; AMD, 2000 MAR p. 752, Eff. 3/17/00; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 47, Eff. 1/12/01; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 2467, Eff. 12/21/01; AMD, 2003 MAR p. 564, Eff. 3/28/03; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 339, Eff. 2/13/04; AMD, 2005 MAR p. 386, Eff. 3/18/05; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 231, Eff. 1/27/06; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 2966, Eff. 12/8/06; AMD, 2007 MAR p. 2145, Eff. 12/21/07; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 90, Eff. 1/30/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 226, Eff. 1/29/10; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2992, Eff. 12/24/10; AMD, 2011 MAR p. 2829, Eff. 12/23/11; AMD, 2013 MAR p. 62, Eff. 1/18/13; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 128, Eff. 1/17/14; AMD, 2015 MAR p. 308, Eff. 3/27/15; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 321, Eff. 2/20/16; AMD, 2017 MAR p. 789, Eff. 6/10/17; AMD, 2018 MAR p. 334, Eff. 2/10/18; AMD, 2019 MAR p. 179, Eff. 2/9/19; AMD, 2020 MAR p. 332, Eff. 2/15/20; AMD, 2021 MAR p. 580, Eff. 5/15/21; AMD, 2022 MAR p. 242, Eff. 2/12/22; AMD, 2022 MAR p. 1931, Eff. 9/24/22; AMD, 2024 MAR p. 87, Eff. 1/13/24; AMD, 2025 MAR, Notice No. 38-5-264, Eff. 2/8/25; AMD, 2026 MAR, Notice No. 2025-491, Eff. 1/24/26. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `mt-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `a55c8e02dc59e9b7c42990e91fcec9f28e4a59ac1e5cb0ad325b44f21e503291` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T10:28:22.694Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T21:32:57.269Z - Document slug: `mt-arm-38-5-2302` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-MT", "state": "Montana", "exactScope": "This corpus contains the complete current text of the Montana PSC's two dedicated pipeline-safety subchapters, ARM 38.5.22 and 38.5.23, plus the directly implementing natural-gas pipeline-safety statute, MCA 69-3-207. The SOS inventories prove 12 current rules and retain 14 ineffective or repealed entries as non-searchable omissions.", "excludedScope": "It does not claim to contain all Montana pipeline law. Common-carrier status and reports (including ARM 38.7.1 and MCA Title 69, chapter 13), one-call damage prevention, siting and routing, environmental permits, utility rates and service, federal law, local law, tariffs, dockets, orders, forms, and guidance are outside this bounded corpus.", "applicabilityCaveat": "The Montana PSC describes itself as the certified inspection authority for intrastate natural-gas pipelines and states that federal PHMSA retains interstate gas pipelines and every liquid line operating within or through Montana. Inclusion is therefore limited to Montana's certified gas program; it is not evidence of a Montana hazardous-liquid certification. ARM 38.5.2304 also excludes activity over which the commission has not accepted jurisdiction.", "incorporationCaveat": "ARM 38.5.2202 incorporates 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, and 193, and ARM 38.5.2302 incorporates 49 CFR Part 199, only through revisions enacted on or before November 25, 2025. The connector records these references but does not reproduce or silently update incorporated federal text.", "publicationCaveat": "Currentness is tied to the Montana Secretary of State policy-library inventories, active policy version UUIDs, SOS-declared document hashes, and express rule effective dates observed at retrieval. MCA 69-3-207 is taken from the Legislature's Montana Code Annotated 2025 page and its Part 2 inventory. Retrieval dates and HTTP dates are provenance, not legal effective dates.", "rights": "Official Montana SOS, PSC, and Legislature materials are archived with attribution and byte-level SHA-256 provenance. 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