# Memo: Internal — Pipeline Safety Interpretation

**Citation:** PI-95-002  
**Type / status:** guidance / guidance  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** 1995-01-20

PI-95-002 response to Memo: Internal concerning 192.723.

## Document text

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Memorandum
Date: Jan 20, 1995
Subject: Information: Business district
From: To: Cesar De Leon, Deputy Associate Administrator for
Pipeline Safety, DPS-2
Jack G. Edwards, Pipeline Safety Specialist, DTI-60
This responds to your memo concerning the frequency of gas leakage surveys. You
asked if a gas main located beneath a highway that parallels a shopping center parking
lot is in a “ business district” under 49 CFR 192.723 (b)(1).
Part 192 does not define the term “ business district.” However, by its plain meaning, the
term refers to a place whose primary function is the conduct of business. Thus, the
shopping center and its parking lot are a business district.. As you have depicted the
main, it lies outside a business district.
dal/192.723
95-01-20

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- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T00:59:31.977Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T02:27:36.426Z
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