{"operation":"document","citation":"PI-79-013","title":"Memo: Internal — Pipeline Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1979-04-23","effective_on":null,"summary":"PI-79-013 response to Memo: Internal concerning 192.3.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-79-013.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-79-013.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-pi-79-013","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/Pipeline/1979/PI79013.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nUNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM\nApril 23, 1979\nSUBJ: Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company-\nDetermination of Transmission Lines\nFROM: Chief, Eastern Region, DMT-15\nTO: Associate Director, Office of Pipeline Safety Regulation, THRU: Associate Director, Office of Operations and Enforcement, DMT-30\nDMT-10\nAttached is a copy of drawing STD.3490-65 which shows various pipelines, A through M, of\nPennsylvania Gas and Water Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, that receive gas from\nTranscontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation and Tennessee Gas Transmission Company.\nSubtracting the 750 customers served directly off pipelines A through M, there are about 110,300\ncustomers in the various areas served by this operator. The operator has advised that there are\nabout 83,700 customers in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton which represents 75% of all its customers.\nThe Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission wishes to know if our office considers the lines\nmarked in red to be transmission lines or a part of Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company's\ndistribution system. Basically, Mr. John Falherty, Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, and I\nconsider these lines, A through M, as being transmission lines with 750 customers directly off the\nlines being equivalent to farm taps. The 12-inch Auburn Line, marked B, supplies gas to one\nlarge customer, Charmin Paper Mill.\nPlease advise if the pipelines, A through M, shown on the attached drawing are intrastate gas\ntransmission pipelines.\nLance F. Heverly\nAttachments\nDAL\\192\\3\\79-04-23\n1\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nDAL\\192\\3\\79-04-23\n\n<<<PAGE 3>>>\n\nMay 23, 1979\nPennsylvania Gas and Water Company\nDetermination of Transmission Lines\nAssociate Director for Pipeline Safety Regulation, DMT-30\nChief, Eastern Region, DMT-15\nYour memo of April 23, 1979, refers to various pipelines marked \"A\"-\"M\" that are operated by\nthe Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company and asks whether these pipelines are transmission lines\nor distribution lines.\nSince each of the pipelines in question stems from an interstate transmission line and runs to a\ndistribution center (including line \"B\" which serves an apparently large volume customer), they\nare \"transmission lines\" under the definition of that term in Section 193.3. The fact that the\npipelines serve \"farm tap\" customers along the way to the distribution centers does not affect our\nopinion since the primary function of the pipelines is to deliver gas to distribution centers.\nCesar DeLeon\nDAL\\192\\3\\79-04-23\n3\n\n<<<PAGE 4>>>\n\nInterpretation No. 79-16\nDAL\\192\\3\\79-04-23\n4","truncated":false,"body_characters":2546}