# West Texas Gulf Pipeline Company — Pipeline Safety Interpretation

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** PI-80-004
- **title:** West Texas Gulf Pipeline Company — Pipeline Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1980-01-31
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** PI-80-004 response to West Texas Gulf Pipeline Company concerning 195.1.
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January 31, 1980
Mr. O. Gordon Oldham
Secretary and Attorney for
West Texas Gulf Pipeline Company
P.O. Box 3725
Houston, Texas 77001
Dear Mr. Oldham:
In further response to your letter of December 5, 1979, we are
enclosing the interpretation of section 195.10.
I trust that this will clarify this regulation and adequately
respond to your inquiry.
Sincerely,
Cesar DeLeon
Associate Director for
Pipeline Safety Regulation
Materials Transportation Bureau
Enclosure
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No. 80-3
Date: January 31
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION
MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION BUREAU
PIPELINE SAFETY REGULATORY INTERPRETATION
Note: A pipeline safety regulatory
interpretation applies a particular rule
to a particular set of facts and
circumstances, and, as such, may be
relied upon only by those persons to
whom the interpretation is specifically
addressed.
SECTION: 49 CFR 195.10
SUBJECT: Responsibility of Carrier for Compliance with this
Part.
FACTS: --
QUESTION: Does the language of this section or any other section
or policy of the Department have the effect of holding
a carrier liable to private citizens for injuries
arising from operation of the carrier's pipeline,
regardless of the fact that the carrier has contracted
with another entity which operates the carrier's system
with the operator's own employees?
INTERPR: Neither this section nor any other section or policy of
the Department holds the carrier liable to private
citizens in the situation you have described.
REFERNCE: Letter from O. Gordon Oldham, West Texas Gulf Pipeline
Company, dated December 5, 1979.
Cesar DeLeon
Associate Director for
Pipeline Safety Regulation
Materials Transportation Bureau
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