# Nevada Public Service Commission — Pipeline Safety Interpretation

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- **citation:** PI-84-0104
- **title:** Nevada Public Service Commission — Pipeline Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1984-08-31
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** PI-84-0104 response to Nevada Public Service Commission concerning 192.739, 192.743.
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PI-84-0104
August 31, 1984
Mr. Galen D. Denio
Gas Pipeline Safety Engineer.
Nevada Public Service Commission
505 East King Street
Carson City, Nevada 89710
Dear Mr. Denio:
This responds to your letter of August 22, 1984, concerning the application of 49 CFR Part 192, §192.739, Pressure
limiting and regulating stations: Inspection and testing, and §192.743, Pressure limiting and regulating stations: Testing
of relief devices, to metering and pressure regulating equipment used to deliver gas to a single commercial or industrial
consumer.
I am enclosing a copy of Interpretation 81-1, dated March 17, 1981. This interpretation makes it clear that these
maintenance requirements (§§192.739 and 192.743) do not apply to regulator installations on service lines.
Sincerely,
Richard L. Beam
Associate Director for
Pipeline safety Regulation
Materials Transportation Bureau

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No. 81-1
Date: March 17, 1981
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: §§ 192.197(c) or (c)(1), 192.739, and 192.743
SUBJECT: Pressure regulating and relief installation in high pressure distribution systems.
FACTS: None
QUESTION #1: Are the pressure regulating and relief installations described in §192.197(c) subject to the requirements
of §192.739?
ANSWER: The pressure regulating and relief installations described in §192.197 for high pressure distribution
systems are those for a service line with meter and service regulator and series regulator, service
regulator or other protective devices.
The requirements of §192.739 are for regulating stations such as a city gate measuring and pressure
regulating station or a distribution regulator station installed in a gas distribution main regulating a
multiple feed distribution system.
Since the pressure regulating and relief devices described in §192.197 are neither a city gate measuring
and pressure regulating station nor a distribution regulating station regulating a multiple feed
distribution system, they are not subject to the inspection and testing requirements of §192.739.
QUESTION #2: Are the relief devices described in §192.197(c) (1) and (3) subject to the requirements of §192.743?
ANSWER: For the same reasons given in the answer to question #1, the relief devices described in §192.197(c)(1)
and (3) would not be subject to the testing requirements of 192.743.
Melvin A. Judah
Acting Associate Director for
Pipeline Safety Regulation
Materials Transportation Bureau
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