# Memo: Internal — Pipeline Safety Interpretation

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** PI-79-005
- **title:** Memo: Internal — Pipeline Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1979-03-12
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** PI-79-005 response to Memo: Internal concerning 192.739, 192.743.
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March 12, 1979
Mr. George Orr
Office of Pipeline Safety
Department of Transportation
6622 Hornwood Drive
Houston, Texas 77074
RE: 49CFR §§192.731, 192.739, 192.743
Dear Mr. Orr:
Pursuant to our conversation of this afternoon, I am forwarding a copy of a letter written by
Marshall W. Taylor, Chief of the Central Region, Office of Pipeline Safety, interpreting the above
referenced sections of Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations. In his letter Mr. Taylor states that
"the requirements of §192.731, §192.739 and §192.743 do not apply to relief devices or
regulations which are not installed in a piping system or storage vessels containing gas . . ."
Presumably, the Southwest Region interprets these regulations similarly; however, inasmuch as
Columbia Gulf operates its pipeline system primarily in the Southwest Region and not the Central
Region, please forward, at your earliest convenience, an opinion on the applicability of the above-
referenced regulations to relief devices or regulators which are installed in piping systems or
storage vessels not containing gas.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
Kathleen O'Leary
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