# Pipeline Safety Interpretation PI-81-0108

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- **citation:** PI-81-0108
- **title:** Pipeline Safety Interpretation PI-81-0108
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1981-07-10
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** PI-81-0108 concerning 192.14.
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PI-81-0108
July 10, 1981
Mr. Louis C. Baldacci, Jr.
Vice President
The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.
122 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
Dear Mr. Baldacci:
This refers to your letter of April 22, 1981, in which you request a determination that a particular pipeline that
now transports naphtha from the Union 76 refinery to an SNG plant may be used to transport alternately
naphtha and refinery gas.
The applicable Federal regulations governing the transportation of naphtha by pipeline in interstate
commerce are set forth in 49 CFR Part 195. Regulations governing the pipeline transportation of gas in or
affecting interstate commerce are in 49 CFR Part 192. These regulations do not preclude a pipeline from
being used in the manner your have proposed, provided the applicable requirements of each set of
regulations are met.
In this regard, the pipeline need not meet each design and construction requirements of Part 192, that would
otherwise apply to a pipeline newly readied for gas service, if it is qualified for use under the conversion rules
of §192.14. Note that this section would require that the pipeline be pressure tested under Subpart J, even
though it has been tested previously under Part 195. The MAOP for gas service would be determined under
§192.619 based on the new pressure test.
The regulations do not require notification of the proposed changeover.
Sincerely,
SIGNED
Melvin A. Judah
Acting Associate Director for
Pipeline Safety Regulation
Materials Transportation Bureau
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