# Forms and documentation

**Citation:** OAC 165:20-1-4  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Oklahoma Corporation Commission  
**Effective:** 2021-10-01  
**Published:** Not stated

(a) The Commission is empowered to prescribe necessary and proper forms in order to effectuate the purpose of this Chapter. The Manager of Pipeline Safety shall prescribe the number of copies of an appropriate form which shall be necessary to comply with the filing requirements of this Chapter. (b) 

## Document text

(a) The Commission is empowered to prescribe necessary and proper forms in order to effectuate the purpose of this Chapter. The Manager of Pipeline Safety shall prescribe the number of copies of an appropriate form which shall be necessary to comply with the filing requirements of this Chapter. (b) Plans, specifications, maps, and other data relative to natural gas pipeline systems, underground natural gas storage facilities, and hazardous liquid pipeline systems shall be submitted to the Commission as prescribed by the Manager of Pipeline Safety in order to effectuate the purpose of this Chapter. This subsection is applicable to the operators of pipelines regulated pursuant to Subchapters 5, 6, 7, and 17 of this Chapter. (c) Plans and maps submitted to the Commission pursuant to subsection (b) shall be deemed confidential records or trade secrets of the operator under the Open Records Act as provided for by 51 O.S. § 24A.22 and shall be kept confidential by the Commission, unless such records are successfully challenged or become subject matter of an enforcement action at the Commission. [Source: Amended at 15 Ok Reg 3002, eff 7-15-98; Amended at 37 Ok Reg 1126, eff 10-1-20, Amended at 38 Ok Reg 1746, eff 10-1-21] 1

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/occ/documents/ajls/jls-courts/rules/2026/Chapter%2020.%20Gas%20and%20Hazardous%20Liquid%20Pipeline%20Safety%20-%20eff%2008-01-26.pdf>
- Source ID: `ok-occ-oac-165-20`
- SHA-256: `905124cf7ebc262e5d7bf834f40773b844f9f8deca988c97762e0c96175245ec`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T10:53:57.691Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T08:44:30.338Z
- Document slug: `ok-oac-165-20-1-4`

### Source metadata

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  "jurisdiction": "US-OK",
  "chapter": "OAC 165:20",
  "subject": "chapter-wide",
  "exactScope": "This corpus contains every current section in the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's dedicated OAC 165:20 Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety compilation: 47 current sections. It inventories 19 revoked and two reserved sections without making them searchable.",
  "excludedScope": "It does not claim all Oklahoma pipeline law. Statutes outside the direct authority check, federal text, Commission orders and dockets, pending rules, forms, tariffs, utility service and rates, oil-and-gas conservation, environmental permits, siting, rights-of-way, local law, and incorporated material are excluded. OAC 165:20-5-41, 7-3, and Subchapter 17 damage-prevention obligations remain included because they are current sections of the bounded chapter, but are classified in metadata as adjacent to operational pipeline safety.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Oklahoma and PHMSA identify the Commission's certified role as inspection and enforcement for intrastate gas and hazardous-liquid pipelines; PHMSA retains interstate enforcement. OAC 165:20 separately limits gas, hazardous-liquid, underground natural gas storage, drug-testing, enforcement, construction, and damage-prevention provisions. Inclusion does not establish that a provision applies to a particular operator, commodity, gathering line, storage facility, or interstate facility.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "OAC 165:20-5-21, 6-1, 7-1, and 11-1 adopt federal Parts 191, 192, 195, and 199 with all amendments and appendices, a dynamic formulation whose legal operation must be verified. Effective August 1, 2026, sections 5-41 and 7-3 also omit the former January 1, 2020 date from their adoption of the Oklahoma damage-prevention statute. The connector records the current wording but does not infer the timing or legal effect of future source amendments.",
  "publicationCaveat": "The OCC compilation is expressly unofficial; only the Oklahoma Secretary of State supplies official OAC copies. The OCC current-rules page identifies Chapter 20 effective August 1, 2026 as its current convenience copy, and that compilation identifies Oklahoma Register Volume 43, Number 21 and RM2025-000005 changes. Users must verify official SOS text and any later effective action.",
  "rights": "Official Oklahoma and federal government materials are archived with attribution and byte-level hashes. Public availability does not resolve rights in seals, site presentation, forms, linked documents, incorporated federal compilations, or third-party standards; downstream redistribution requires separate review.",
  "rightsReviewRequired": true,
  "sourceNote": "[Source: Amended at 15 Ok Reg 3002, eff 7-15-98; Amended at 37 Ok Reg 1126, eff 10-1-20, Amended at 38 Ok Reg 1746, eff 10-1-21]",
  "references": [
    {
      "citation": "51 O.S. § 24A.22",
      "referenceType": "state_statute",
      "url": "https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os51.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "federalIncorporationMode": null,
  "region": "OK"
}
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