# Exxon Pipeline Company — Pipeline Safety Interpretation

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** PI-92-045
- **title:** Exxon Pipeline Company — Pipeline Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1992-09-10
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** PI-92-045 response to Exxon Pipeline Company concerning 195.54.
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September 10, 1992
Mr. C. W. Hatley
Exxon Pipeline Company
P.O. Box 2220
Houston, TX 77252-2220
Dear Mr. Hatley:
This responds to your letter dated May 29, 1992, requesting our
opinion of proposed guidelines to be incorporated into your
Policy and Procedures Manual for filing a supplemental report
required by 49 CFR 195.54(b) for changes in information
previously reported or additions to the original accident report.
You asked that we respond with a statement that either affirms
our concurrence with your proposal or lists acceptable DOT
guidelines.
The guidelines proposed by your letter set minimum thresholds
that must be exceeded to require filing of a supplemental
accident report. For example, for damages less than $100,000,
the change in the original estimate would have to be 100 percent
before a supplemental report would be filed.
Section 195.54, Accident reports, requires an operator to file a
supplemental report whenever the operator receives "any changes"
in information reported in or additions to the original report.
Your proposed guidelines would not satisfy this regulation,
because, by specifying minimum thresholds in the size of the
change in the information previously reported, the guidelines
implicitly permit changes in information below the stated
thresholds to go unreported. This would contradict the specific
requirement of ?195.54 that an operator file a supplemental
report for "any changes" in information reported or additions to
the original report.
Therefore, we cannot accept your proposal. We suggest that you
eliminate any language from your guidelines that specifically or
implicitly excepts certain changes in information previously
reported in an accident report.
Sincerely,
Cesar De Leon
Director, Regulatory Programs
Office of Pipeline Safety
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