# 704.240 Initial report: Submission; designated employee. **Citation:** NAC 704.240 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Public Utilities Commission of Nevada **Effective:** 2010-12-16 **Published:** 2010-12-16 1. At the earliest practicable moment following the discovery of an accident, but not later than 4 hours after discovery, a public utility shall submit an initial report of the accident to the person designated by the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Commission to receive such reports. The initial report must be submitted by telephone, electronic mail or a web-based reporting system established by the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Commission. ## Document text 1. At the earliest practicable moment following the discovery of an accident, but not later than 4 hours after discovery, a public utility shall submit an initial report of the accident to the person designated by the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Commission to receive such reports. The initial report must be submitted by telephone, electronic mail or a web-based reporting system established by the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Commission. 2. Each utility shall have at least one employee designated to report accidents and, in the event that all designated employees are unavailable, shall designate a substitute. 3. As used in this section, "discovery" means whenever any employee designated by the utility to report accidents to the Commission first obtains knowledge of an accident and has determined that the criteria for an accident have been satisfied. [Pub. Service Comm'n, Gen. Order 19 Rules 106 & 107, eff. 6-9-77]-(NAC A by Pub. Utilities Comm'n by R084-10, 12-16-2010) ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `nv-leg-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `b917eb7d26e7feee76e7f487935b0fe534d0a472cd87008e79b1b9c2603ad551` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T10:43:45.902Z - Exported: 2026-08-22T12:19:45.494Z - Document slug: `nv-nac-704-240` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-NV", "code": "Nevada Administrative Code", "chapter": "704", "publicationObservedOn": "2026-08-20", "currentThrough": "2026-04-13", "certification": "49 U.S.C. 60105 gas program", "certificationAsOf": "2024-12-31", "certifiedFacilityClasses": [ "private distribution", "master meter", "LPG distribution", "intrastate transmission", "intrastate LNG", "gathering lines", "offshore facilities" ], "hazardousLiquidSafetyJurisdiction": false, "interstateGasEnforcementJurisdiction": false, "dynamicFederalIncorporation": false, "incorporatedFederalParts": [], "sourceNote": "[Pub. Service Comm'n, Gen. Order 19 Rules 106 & 107, eff. 6-9-77]-(NAC A by Pub. Utilities Comm'n by R084-10, 12-16-2010)", "statutoryAuthority": "(NRS 703.025, 704.190, 704.210)", "references": [ { "citation": "NRS 703.025", "referenceType": "state_statute", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-703.html#NRS703Sec025" }, { "citation": "NRS 704.190", "referenceType": "state_statute", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-704.html#NRS704Sec190" }, { "citation": "NRS 704.210", "referenceType": "state_statute", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-704.html#NRS704Sec210" } ], "caveats": { "exactScope": "This rules-only corpus contains all 14 current Nevada Administrative Code sections that directly govern the certified intrastate gas-pipeline safety program: NAC 703.910 and 703.915; the complete NAC 704.228-.250 accident-reporting sequence made applicable to gas operators by NAC 703.910; and every section in NAC 704.455-.465. The current Legislature chapter publications are the completeness boundary.", "applicability": "Apply each rule only after resolving Commission jurisdiction, intrastate status, commodity, operator and facility class, and the rule's own terms. NRS 703.154 excludes activities subject to Chapter 704 from that section's separate authority; NAC 703.910-.915 and NAC Chapter 704 therefore must not be collapsed into a single applicability theory. The PUCN reports 49 U.S.C. 60105 gas certification for intrastate private distribution, master-meter, LPG, transmission, LNG, gathering, and offshore facility classes. Its current program page states that it has jurisdiction only over intrastate pipeline facilities, lacks jurisdiction over PHMSA-jurisdictional facilities including all hazardous-liquid pipelines, and may assist PHMSA on interstate construction only as an agent. Assistance is not state enforcement jurisdiction.", "incorporation": "NAC 704.460 dynamically adopts the most recently published 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, and 199 unless Nevada timely rejects a revision through the prescribed notice and hearing process. NAC 704.461 similarly adopts current NFPA 58 and 59 subject to state review. This connector records the Nevada adoption clauses but does not reproduce incorporated federal or private standards, determine whether a rejection notice exists for a particular edition, or replace edition-specific legal research.", "publication": "The Nevada Legislature publishes the controlling current NAC chapter text and identifies both Chapter 703 and Chapter 704 as revised April 13, 2026. Retrieval time is an observation, not a legal event. Source notes support amendment events but are not complete historical versions. The PUCN 2024 Gas Base Grant Progress Report proves certification status as of December 31, 2024; the current PUCN program page supplies the present jurisdiction description.", "excludedScope": "The corpus does not make adjacent significant-service-outage, natural-gas curtailment, LPG rate, gas-infrastructure replacement/cost-recovery, professional-engineering, siting, excavation/one-call, tariff, docket, order, inspection letter, enforcement, form, or incident material searchable. It excludes interstate gas, hazardous-liquid pipelines, standalone statutes, and incorporated federal or private text.", "rights": "Official Nevada and federal-program materials are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public access does not establish unrestricted rights in site presentation, agency marks, forms, photographs, incorporated standards, or linked materials. NFPA standards are not reproduced and require separate rights review." }, "region": "NV" } ```