# CONSTRUCTION OF PIPELINE FACILITIES

**Citation:** NCUC Rule R6-61  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** North Carolina Utilities Commission  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** Not stated

No natural gas utility under the jurisdiction of the Commission shall construct or operate a natural gas pipeline facility outside its designated territory to which the utility has exclusive franchise rights or to be connected to an interstate pipeline, including looping of present facilities, from 

## Document text

No natural gas utility under the jurisdiction of the Commission shall construct or operate a natural gas pipeline facility outside its designated territory to which the utility has exclusive franchise rights or to be connected to an interstate pipeline, including looping of present facilities, from an interstate supplier without having first applied in writing to, and obtained the written approval of the Commission. Such application shall clearly show that the construction proposed is economically and financially feasible, and will not be wastefully duplicative of existing or proposed construction by any other supplier of natural gas in the State, will not constitute an unfair burden upon applicant's customers in the State, and is in the public interest generally. If the proposed pipeline facility is within a company's designated territory to which the company has exclusive franchise rights and is to a community for initial service, the natural gas utility shall notify the Commission in writing before entering upon construction or operation of the facility.

(NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 6, 5/23/67; NCUC Docket No. G-100, Sub 70, 3/19/96.)

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.ncuc.gov/ncrules/Chapter06.pdf>
- Source ID: `nc-ncuc-chapter-6`
- SHA-256: `864dac22d3ef3f891f81913d2b1dbc0b0d2e65fcba51e71da6f7c2483ce476a1`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T09:05:56.011Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T02:50:55.583Z
- Document slug: `nc-ncuc-r6-61`

### Source metadata

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  "selectedRuleCount": 23,
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  "statutoryAuthority": "N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-50",
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  "scopeCaveat": "This is a bounded Chapter 6 pipeline/gas-safety corpus, not the entire 122-page Natural Gas chapter and not a claim to all North Carolina pipeline law. It preserves complete selected rules while excluding broader tariff, billing, customer-relations, metering-administration, service-territory, accounting, expansion-funding, and economic-development rules, plus repealed and reserved provisions.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Applicability depends on NCUC jurisdiction under G.S. 62-50, operator and facility status, the rule-specific definition of utility, federal/state jurisdiction and preemption, Commission exemptions or orders, and incorporated federal standards. Chapter 6 also reaches interstate natural-gas companies only insofar as the Commission has safety jurisdiction; it does not establish state jurisdiction over every pipeline or customer-owned installation in North Carolina.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "R6-39 and R6-41 incorporate federal pipeline requirements and amendments, including 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, 198, and 199, with stated North Carolina modifications. Other selected rules refer to privately published ASME, NFPA, ASA, AGA, NARUC, and testing standards. This connector preserves references but does not reproduce or determine the current content, licensing terms, or legal effect of incorporated material.",
  "publicationCaveat": "The source is the current agency-hosted Chapter 6 compilation retrieved on the recorded fetch date. NCUC warns on its rules index that posting can lag an order adopting or revising a rule. Publisher history dates are retained as history entries and are not represented as effective dates unless the source expressly says so.",
  "rights": "North Carolina government text and official source links are preserved for provenance. Public availability does not determine rights in agency seals, site presentation, privately authored standards, or incorporated third-party material; redistribution and downstream use require rights review.",
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