# Pipeline Safety Interpretation PI-76-0101

**Citation:** PI-76-0101  
**Type / status:** guidance / guidance  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** 1976-01-22

PI-76-0101 concerning 192.1.

## Document text

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PI-76-0101
January 22, 1976
Mr. L. D. Clapsaddle
Assistant Regional Administrator
for Housing Management
Department of Housing and
Urban Development
1100 Commerce Street
Dallas, Texas 75202
Dear Mr. Clapsaddle:
Your letter of November 4, 1975, requests clarification of the responsibility for compliance with
certain Federal gas pipeline safety standards contained in 49 CFR Parts 191 and 192 by a housing
project owner who owns gas pipelines in the project which are subject to those standards. The
pipelines involved are operated by a local gas distribution company which sells gas to tenants
through individual meters owned by the gas company. Specifically, you ask whether the project
owner, the gas company, or both are required by law to comply with certain safety standards.
As your letter indicates, we advised Mr. Sterling Cockrill of your Little Rock office by letter of
August 18, 1975, that in situations like the one you describe, if the project owner owns the gas
pipelines involved, that owner would be responsible for compliance with applicable safety
requirements as well as the gas distribution company who operates the pipelines. That opinion
was based on Sec. 8 of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (49 USC 1677) which
requires that each person who owns or operates pipeline facilities must comply with applicable
regulations.
We did not intend to imply that certain regulations are binding on the owner of facilities while
others are binding on the person operating the facilities. Under Section 8 of the Act, we view the
obligation to comply with applicable regulations as a single responsibility which must be met by
either the owner of facilities or the person who operates them. Compliance by either person
satisfies the entire obligation.
As a practical matter, however, because the regulations in Parts 191 and 192 are directed toward
compliance by persons in the gas pipeline transportation business who operate pipeline facilities,
the need to enforce compliance against an owner who does not operate facilities has never arisen.
We trust this satisfactorily responds to your inquiry.
Sincerely,
Cesar DeLeon
Acting Director
Office of Pipeline
Safety Operations

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