# Arizona Corporation Commission — Pipeline Safety Interpretation

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** PI-99-0107
- **title:** Arizona Corporation Commission — Pipeline Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1999-12-17
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** PI-99-0107 response to Arizona Corporation Commission concerning 190.9, 195.1, 195.120.
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PI-99-0107
U.S. Department Of Transportation
Research and Special Programs Administration
400 Seventh Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20590
Dec. 17, 1999
Mr. Terry Fronterhouse
Chief of Pipeline Safety
Pipeline Safety Section
Arizona Corporation Commission
1200 W. Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85007-2996
Dear Mr. Fronterhouse:
This responds to your letter of October 8, 1999, concerning a request by the City of
Phoenix Aviation Department for a finding under 49 CFR 195.120(b)(7). This regulation
permits us to find that particular piping is impracticable to design and construct to
accommodate the passage of instrumented internal inspection devices.
The request involves a 12-inch hydrant piping system that is under construction around
Terminal 4, N-1 Concourse, at the Sky Harbor International Airport. Although you
recommended that we grant the request, we believe the request is unnecessary. Fuel
distribution systems on airport grounds are akin to in-plant piping systems that are
excluded from Part 195 under § 195. 1 (b)(7) or terminal facilities that are excluded
under§195.1(b)(8). Because of the similarity, we do not think such systems come under
the safety standards in 49 CFR Part 195.
Also, please note that requests for findings under § 195.120(b)(7) are not handled like
waiver requests. Under our procedures in 49 CFR 190.9, after receiving a state agency
recommendation on a request for finding involving an intrastate pipeline, we have only
10 business days to change the recommendation or else it becomes the final decision.
Sincerely,
Richard Felder
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety
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