# PSC 135.014 Protection of gas pipeline facilities.

**Citation:** Wis. Admin. Code § PSC 135.014  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Public Service Commission of Wisconsin  
**Effective:** 1999-11-01  
**Published:** Not stated

Complete current PSC 135.014 from official Wisconsin Legislature sources (pipeline-safety).

## Document text

PSC 135.014 Protection of gas pipeline facilities.

(1) A gas pipeline operator, upon receiving notice as provided in s. 66.0831 or 182.0175 (2m), Stats., of work which may affect its facilities used for serving the public shall:

(a) If the notice is of work covered by s. 66.0831, Stats., investigate and decide what action, if any, must reasonably be taken to protect or alter utility facilities in order to protect service to the public and to avoid unnecessary damage. The gas pipeline operator shall take such action as is reasonably necessary to protect, remove, alter, or reconstruct its facilities, and shall perform such work with reasonable dispatch taking into account the conditions to be met. Nothing in this paragraph shall affect any right which the gas pipeline operator may have to require advance payment or adequate assurance of payment of reasonable costs to the gas pipeline operator by the property owner or contractor.

(b) If the notice is of work covered by s. 182.0175 (2m), Stats., and is not covered by s. 66.0831, Stats., the gas pipeline operator shall respond as required by s. 182.0175 (2m), Stats.

(2) The gas pipeline operator may, in order to protect its interests, require that the owner or contractor perform certain work upon that part of the service piping or wiring on or being removed from the property upon which the excavating, building, or wrecking operations are being performed.

(3) This section is not intended to affect the responsibility of the contractor or owner, or the liability or legal rights of any party.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/administrativecode/PSC%20135.014>
- Source ID: `wi-legislature-pipeline-corpus`
- SHA-256: `7df9ddd82e898c37ea6a9139ca267bfcf290ce4f67addf6253ef3e90d204f34e`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T06:25:04.554Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T02:25:42.199Z
- Document slug: `wi-psc-135-014`

### Source metadata

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  "category": "pipeline-safety",
  "currentThrough": "2026-08-01",
  "currentnessBasis": "Official publisher states the entire administrative code is current and updated on the first day of each month.",
  "legalScope": "This completeness-verified corpus contains every current section of Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapters PSC 133, 134, and 135, plus complete Wis. Stat. §§ 196.745 and 182.0175. Chapter PSC 135 is the dedicated gas-safety chapter. Chapters PSC 133 and 134 are included because the Wisconsin PSC identifies all three chapters as requirements used in pipeline-safety inspections; they also contain broader construction, siting, utility-service, billing, metering, and customer provisions.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Applicability depends on Wisconsin PSC jurisdiction, operator and facility type, intrastate or interstate status, gas-public-utility status, project thresholds, activity, exemptions, waivers, Commission orders, federal preemption, and the specific provision. Wis. Stat. § 196.745 excludes propane distribution systems from the PSC pipeline-safety program, while the one-call law reaches transmission facilities beyond natural-gas pipelines.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "Chapter PSC 135 adopts and supplements federal minimum pipeline-safety standards, principally 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, and 199. The source also cites statutes, administrative rules, Commission forms and orders, and private technical standards. References are retained as metadata; incorporated material is not reproduced and its edition, legal effect, and licensing must be verified at the referenced source.",
  "rightsCaveat": "Official Wisconsin Legislature and Public Service Commission text is preserved with attribution and source hashes. Public availability does not establish a blanket license for site presentation, agency marks, annotations, forms, or incorporated federal and privately authored standards; downstream redistribution requires separate rights review.",
  "history": "History: Cr. Register, October, 1999, No. 526, eff. 11-1-99; corrections in (1) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register February 2004, No. 578.",
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