# S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-5-1050 - Interaction with federal agencies **Citation:** S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-5-1050 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** South Carolina General Assembly **Effective:** 2006-05-24 **Published:** 2006-05-24 (a) As soon as practicable after April 23, 1970, and every year thereafter, the Office of Regulatory Staff shall submit an annual certification to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation as provided for in Section 5(a) of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-481) [49 U.S.C. Section 1674(a)], as may be amended from time to time. (b) In the event that a new or amended federal safety standard i ## Document text (a) As soon as practicable after April 23, 1970, and every year thereafter, the Office of Regulatory Staff shall submit an annual certification to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation as provided for in Section 5(a) of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-481) [49 U.S.C. Section 1674(a)], as may be amended from time to time. (b) In the event that a new or amended federal safety standard is adopted, the Office of Regulatory Staff shall submit an appropriate certification to comply with Section 5(d) of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 [P.L. 90-481, 49 U.S.C. Section 1674(d)]. (c) The Office of Regulatory Staff is further empowered to make and to provide certifications, reports, and information to the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation or any other regulatory agency of the United States having jurisdiction over federal safety standards; to enter into agreements with the Secretary to carry out the purposes of this article; to enforce federal safety standards in the State in lieu of enforcement by the Department of Transportation as permitted by the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, as may be amended from time to time; and to exercise regulatory jurisdiction over the safety of pipeline systems and the transportation of gas as permitted by the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, as may be amended from time to time. HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 58-145; 1970 (56) 2420; 2006 Act No. 318, SECTION 31, eff May 24, 2006. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `sc-leg-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `75fe2ba0a0a539f49957d9e46a30ae429d7339e5a17d1a1e0f54350f102be22e` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T11:28:25.511Z - Exported: 2026-08-26T03:43:15.221Z - Document slug: `sc-code-58-5-1050` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-SC", "documentClass": "statute", "code": "South Carolina Code of Laws", "publicationObservedOn": "2026-08-20", "certification": "49 U.S.C. 60105 intrastate-gas program", "hazardousLiquidSafetyJurisdiction": false, "interstateGasEnforcementJurisdiction": false, "dynamicFederalIncorporation": true, "sourceNote": "HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 58-145; 1970 (56) 2420; 2006 Act No. 318, SECTION 31, eff May 24, 2006.", "references": [ { "citation": "49 CFR 192", "referenceType": "federal_regulation", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-192" } ], "caveats": { "exactScope": "This bounded corpus contains 27 current, direct South Carolina gas-pipeline safety provisions: 14 provisions from Chapter 103, Article 4, including only pipeline-safety portions 103-412(2.6)-(2.7), and 13 provisions from the South Carolina Gas Safety Act of 1970, S.C. Code Sections 58-5-920 through 58-5-1070. The complete current Chapter 103 gas-systems article and complete current Gas Safety Act article are inventoried as the completeness boundary.", "excludedScope": "Customer deposits, billing, rates, certificates, economic service, routine metering, gas quality, curtailment, ordinary utility records, and related engineering provisions are adjacent or excluded and are not searchable. Chapter 58-36 excavation and one-call law, tariffs, dockets, orders, inspection forms, enforcement files, federal text, private standards, and non-gas programs require separate corpora. Interstate gas and all hazardous-liquid pipelines are excluded from the proven state-certification scope.", "applicability": "Applicability depends on the statutory definition of gas utility and pipeline facility, public-utility and gas-system status, commodity, facility type, intrastate or interstate status, federal jurisdiction, statutory exclusions for liquefied petroleum gas and anhydrous ammonia, waivers, and the text in force on the relevant date. PHMSA identifies South Carolina as certified for intrastate gas only and retains interstate gas and both intrastate and interstate hazardous-liquid enforcement. This connector does not infer hazardous-liquid certification.", "incorporation": "Regulation 103-490 and Sections 58-5-920, 58-5-970, and 58-5-1050 use rolling language for federal gas-safety standards as amended from time to time. Regulation 103-461 also points to editions of private standards referenced by federal rules. This connector links but does not reproduce incorporated federal or private standards and does not decide edition, preemption, or incorporation-validity questions.", "publication": "The South Carolina Legislature's current Code of Regulations index, official Chapter 103 PDF, and current Code of Laws HTML are the controlling publication set used here. Rule histories and statutory history notes support only the explicit events emitted; retrieval time is a publication observation, not a legal event or historical version.", "rights": "Official South Carolina and federal-government artifacts are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public access does not establish unrestricted rights in site presentation, agency marks, forms, photographs, linked material, or incorporated private standards; private standards are not reproduced." }, "region": "SC" } ```