# NTSB Safety Recommendation P-79-006 - **operation:** document - **citation:** P-79-006 - **title:** NTSB Safety Recommendation P-79-006 - **source type:** guidance - **agency:** National Transportation Safety Board - **status:** guidance - **official:** true - **published on:** 1979-05-15 - **effective on:** 1979-05-15 - **summary:** REEVALUATE ALL RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE SAFETY BOARD CONCERNING LPG, AND EXPEDITE THOSE THAT REQUIRE RULEMAKING. - **machine formats:** - **json:** https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-79-006.json - **markdown:** https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-79-006.md - **app url:** https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/ntsb-recommendation-p-79-006 - **source url:** https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/P-79-006 **body:** NTSB safety recommendation P-79-006. REEVALUATE ALL RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE SAFETY BOARD CONCERNING LPG, AND EXPEDITE THOSE THAT REQUIRE RULEMAKING. Priority: CLASS II Overall Status: Closed - Acceptable Action Issued Date: 1979-05-15 Adopted Date: 1979-05-03 Overall Date Closed: 1989-01-04 Synopsis: ON AUGUST 4, 1978, PROPANE THAT HAD VAPORIZED AND SPREAD WIDELY FROM A RUPTURED 8-INCH LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG) PIPELINE OWNED BY THE MID-AMERICA PIPELINE SYSTEM WAS IGNITED BY AN UNKNOWN SOURCE IN A RURAL AREA NEAR DONNELLSON, IOWA. THE INTENSE FIRE KILLED TWO PERSONS AND CRITICALLY BURNED THREE OTHERS; ONE OF THE CRITICALLY BURNED PERSONS LATER DIED. A FARMHOUSE AND SIX OUTBUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED, AND TWO ADJACENT HOMES WERE DAMAGED. Ntsbnumber: DCA78MP021 Report Number: PAR-79-01 Addressee Name: RSPA Addressee Status: Closed - Acceptable Action Addressee Date Closed: 1989-01-04 Addressee Acronym: RSPA Addressee Organization Type: G-Federal Government Communication Date: 1979-06-14 Communication Type: Official Correspondence Communication Contents: MTB LTR: MTB ISSUED AN ANPRM ON 2/5/79 TO SOLICIT COMMENTS ON THE NEED FOR MORE STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS FOR A PIPELINE TRANSPORTING HIGHLY VOLATILE LIQUIDS. MTB EXPECTS TO PUBLISH FINAL RULES ON DOCKETS PS-51 (SAFETY PLANS FOR NORMAL OPERATIONS AND EMERGENCIES FOR PIPELINES CARRYING HIGHLY VOLATILE LIQUIDS) AND PS-53 (STANDARDS TO REDUCE SPILL SIZE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH PIPELINE VOLATILE LIQUIDS SUCH AS LPG) IN JUNE 1979. DOCKET PS-55 (STAN DARDS TO REDUCE PIPELINE FAILURE RATES IN PIPELINES CARRYING HIGHLY VOLATILE LIQUIDS) WILL BE ISSUED AS A FINAL RULE IN SEPTEMBER 1979. DOT HAS PROPOSED LEGISLA TION TO AMEND THE 1968 GAS PIPELINE SAFETY ACT TO STRENGTHEN MTB'S SAFETY PROGRAMS FOR LPG AND OTHER HIGHLY VOLATILE LIQUIDS. Addressee Acronym: RSPA Addressee Organization Type: G-Federal Government Communication Date: 1979-07-23 Communication Type: Official Correspondence Addressee Acronym: RSPA Addressee Organization Type: G-Federal Government Communication Date: 1989-01-04 Communication Type: Official Correspondence Addressee Acronym: RSPA Addressee Organization Type: G-Federal Government Communication Date: 1989-05-31 Communication Type: Official Correspondence - **truncated:** false - **body characters:** 2279