# 291 NAC 9-002 MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS FOR PIPELINES. **Citation:** 291 NAC 9-002 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Nebraska Public Service Commission **Effective:** 2025-06-23 **Published:** Not stated MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS FOR PIPELINES.. 002 MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS FOR PIPELINES. 002.01 MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS. Unless otherwise specified by the Commission, pipeline carriers shall use the applicable provisions of the procedures established by the United States Department of Transportation as codified at 49 CFR 192. These incorporated materials are available for inspection at the offices of ## Document text 002 MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS FOR PIPELINES. 002.01 MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS. Unless otherwise specified by the Commission, pipeline carriers shall use the applicable provisions of the procedures established by the United States Department of Transportation as codified at 49 CFR 192. These incorporated materials are available for inspection at the offices of the State Fire Marshal or the Nebraska Secretary of State, Division of Rules and Regulations. 002.02 SCOPE. These provisions shall apply to all intrastate pipeline carriers operating within the state. 002.03 FACILITIES, INSPECTION AND REPAIRS. All Facilities shall be cleaned when necessary and inspected at such intervals as the Commission shall determine. Any Facilities known to be defective so as to endanger life or property shall be promptly repaired, permanently disconnected or isolated until repairs can be made. 002.04 WAIVING OF RULES. The rules may be modified or waived by the Commission wherever shown to be impractical or where the advantage of uniformity with existing construction is greater than construction in compliance with the rules providing that the existing construction is equivalently safe to the existing rules. 002.05 WAIVER OF TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS. These rules may be waived by the Commission in cases of temporary installations for a reasonable length of time provided that such construction is under competent supervision and has been made reasonably safe. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `nebraska-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `e31f8eb80d693926e10a53cd1601093d86916be409c742a74e6900d95f0f0eda` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T10:35:18.249Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T12:48:13.735Z - Document slug: `ne-291-nac-9-002` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-NE", "title": 291, "chapter": 9, "sectionNumber": "002", "exactScope": "This bounded pipeline-safety corpus contains all eight ordered current top-level sections published by the Nebraska Secretary of State for 155 NAC 1 and the complete current pipeline-safety section 291 NAC 9-002. The inventory accounts for 155 NAC 2, the Secretary of State Title 155 chapter-49 reference placeholder, and all 23 top-level sections of 291 NAC 9; material outside the two selected safety rule sets is not searchable.", "excludedScope": "This is not all Nebraska pipeline law. It excludes one-call administration in 155 NAC 2; PSC natural-gas utility rate, service, certification, billing, and consumer rules; major-oil-pipeline siting in 291 NAC 9-023; statutes as standalone documents; Commission dockets and orders; federal text; incorporated standards; local requirements; and non-pipeline Fire Marshal rules. Section 023 is inventoried specifically because it concerns oil pipelines but expressly is not a safety rule.", "applicabilityCaveat": "Applicability must be determined from the operator, commodity, facility, service, intrastate/interstate status, federal preemption, waivers, and agency jurisdiction. Neb. Rev. Stat. 81-542 defines the Title 155 program's gas as material transported in gaseous form and not liquid form. Separately, Neb. Rev. Stat. 75-501 directs the PSC to establish safety standards for intrastate common-carrier pipelines transporting liquefied petroleum gas or anhydrous ammonia. Although 291 NAC 9-002.02 says all intrastate pipeline carriers, neither that wording nor its incorporation of gas-focused 49 CFR Part 192 proves PSC safety jurisdiction over petroleum, crude oil, or hazardous liquids generally.", "incorporationCaveat": "155 NAC 1-001 incorporates 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, 196, and 199 as revised April 1, 2019. Effective June 23, 2025, 291 NAC 9-002.01 separately references 49 CFR Part 192 without printing an edition date. The connector records and links those references but does not reproduce incorporated federal text, treat the PSC's undated reference as automatically dynamic, silently substitute current eCFR text, or resolve conflicts between incorporated text and later federal or state requirements.", "publicationCaveat": "The Nebraska Secretary of State rules service is the official online code repository used for structured text and effective-date metadata; the PSC's current rules page and current Chapter 9 PDF independently identify the 2025 chapter. Online text is for research and may not equal a certified copy. The Title 155 currentness claim is strictly bounded to the Secretary of State payload: chapter 1 has no effective-end date and reports an August 13, 2019 effective date. Retrieval time is only publication observation, never an inferred legal event.", "rights": "Official Nebraska Secretary of State, Public Service Commission, and Legislature materials are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public availability does not resolve rights in site design, seals, agency marks, forms, linked material, incorporated federal text, or third-party works; downstream redistribution requires a separate rights review.", "rightsReviewRequired": true, "publicationObservedOn": "2026-08-20", "commodityScope": "intrastate common-carrier LPG or anhydrous-ammonia pipelines under Neb. Rev. Stat. 75-501", "references": [ { "citation": "49 CFR Part 192", "referenceType": "cfr", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/part-192", "publisherText": "49 CFR 192" } ], "legalReferences": [ { "citation": "Neb. Rev. Stat. 75-501", "referenceType": "nebraska-revised-statute", "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=75-501" }, { "citation": "Neb. Rev. Stat. 57-1402", "referenceType": "nebraska-revised-statute", "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=57-1402" } ], "region": "NE" } ```