{"operation":"document","citation":"PI-76-056","title":"IL Sorrento Mobile Home Park — Pipeline Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1976-09-10","effective_on":null,"summary":"PI-76-056 response to IL Sorrento Mobile Home Park concerning 192.457.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-76-056.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-76-056.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-76-056","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/Pipeline/1976/PI76056.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nSeptember 10, 1976\nMr. Victor C. Nelson\nIL Sorrento Mobile Home Park\n23820 Ironwood Avenue\nSunnymead, California 92388\nDear Mr. Nelson:\nThis responds to your letter of July 24, 1976, asking whether or not you are subject to being\npenalized or fined for failing to comply with the corrosion control requirements of Section\n192.457(b) by the August 1, 1976, deadline.\nUnder Sections 8 and 9 of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, any operator of a gas\npipeline system that fails to comply with the standards issued under the Act is subject to a civil\npenalty. Because of this statutory requirement, we are unable affirm that you would not be\nsubject to penalty as you have requested.\nIt is our policy, however, in enforcing the Federal standards against any operator, to take into\naccount all extenuating circumstances that may bear on an operator's failure to comply with a\nparticular standard.\nSincerely,\nCesar DeLeon\nActing Director\nOffice Pipeline\nSafety Operations\ndal/192.457\n76-09-10.2\n1\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nIL SORRENTO MOBILE HOME PARK\nJuly 28, 1976\nDEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION\nMaterial Transportation Bureau\nOffice of Pipeline Safety Operation\nWashington, D.C. 20590\nDear sir,\nThis letter concerns the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968. The regulation we are\ncomplying with is: Transportation of Natural & other Gas by pipeline 49 CFR, parts 191 and\n192. We have applied to Smith & Denison, Inc. out of Santa Monica, Calif., to do our survey &\ntesting. Mr. Leonard Adler, Regional Manager, gave us a date of August 12, 1976 to come and\ndo the survey. He stated the report of finding would follow in approximately three (3) weeks.\nHowever, he assured us since this is past the dead line of August 15, 1976, we would not be\npenalized or fined as we are in the process of getting the job completed.\nWe have only his verbal word for this and now feel we would like confirmation of this from your\noffice. We would greatly appreciate a letter from your office confirming that we are not subject\nto being fined since completion of this regulation will take place after August 15, 1976. I1\nSorrento is a 100 space adult mobile home park developed approximately in June of 1973.\nCordially,\nVICTOR C. NELSON\nResident Manager\nI1 Sorrento MH Park\ndal/192.457\n76-09-10.2\n2","truncated":false,"body_characters":2291}