# S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-5-980 - Additional minimum safety standards

**Citation:** S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-5-980  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** South Carolina General Assembly  
**Effective:** 2006-05-24  
**Published:** 2006-05-24

(a) After reasonable notice and an opportunity for the submission for written data, view, or arguments with or without opportunity for oral presentation by interested gas utilities, the regulatory staff, and the public, the commission may establish additional minimum safety standards for pipeline facilities and the transportation of gas (not subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission under the Natura

## Document text

(a) After reasonable notice and an opportunity for the submission for written data, view, or arguments with or without opportunity for oral presentation by interested gas utilities, the regulatory staff, and the public, the commission may establish additional minimum safety standards for pipeline facilities and the transportation of gas (not subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission under the Natural Gas Act) in this State. (b) Gas safety standards may apply to the design, installation, inspection, testing, construction, extension, replacement and maintenance of the facilities. The safety standards shall be practicable and designed to meet the need for pipeline safety. In prescribing the standards, the Commission shall consider: (1) relevant pipeline safety data; (2) whether the standards are appropriate for the particular type of pipeline transportation and distribution; (3) the reasonableness of any proposed standards; and (4) the extent to which the standards will contribute to the public safety.

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 58-138; 1970 (56) 2420; 2006 Act No. 318, SECTION 26, eff May 24, 2006.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t58c005.php>
- Source ID: `sc-leg-pipeline-safety`
- SHA-256: `208e4cb2293af039406272d82de0b67e49195b8394ff69675800e33e98f835e4`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T11:28:25.511Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T03:56:15.235Z
- Document slug: `sc-code-58-5-980`

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  "certification": "49 U.S.C. 60105 intrastate-gas program",
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  "sourceNote": "HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 58-138; 1970 (56) 2420; 2006 Act No. 318, SECTION 26, eff May 24, 2006.",
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  "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.",
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    "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.",
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