# Required Records and Reporting

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- **citation:** 16 TAC § 8.301
- **title:** Required Records and Reporting
- **source type:** regulation
- **agency:** Railroad Commission of Texas
- **status:** current
- **official:** true
- **published on:** Not available
- **effective on:** 2020-01-06
- **summary:** (a) Accident reports. In the event of any failure or accident involving an intrastate pipeline facility from which any hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide is released, if the failure or accident is required to be reported by 49 CFR §§195.50 or 195.52, the operator shall also report to the Commission 
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(a) Accident reports. In the event of any failure or accident
involving an intrastate pipeline facility from which any
hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide is released, if the failure
or accident is required to be reported by 49 CFR §§195.50 or
195.52, the operator shall also report to the Commission as
follows.
(1) Accidents involving crude oil. In the event of an
accident involving crude oil, the operator shall:
(A) notify the Division, which shall notify the

Commission's appropriate Oil and Gas district office, by
telephone to the Commission's emergency line at (512) 463-
6788 at the earliest practicable moment but no later than one
hour following confirmed discovery of the accident and
include the following information:
(i) company/operator name;
(ii) location of accident;
(iii) time and date of accident;
(iv) fatalities and/or personal injuries;
(v) phone number of operator;
(vi) telephone number of operator;
(vii) telephone number of the operator's on-site
person;
(viii) other significant facts relevant to the accident,
such as ignition, explosion, rerouting of traffic, evacuation of
any building, and media interest; and
(B) following the initial telephonic report for accidents
described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the operator
shall retain its records and provide to the Commission upon
request the applicable written reports submitted to the DOT.
Operators of hazardous liquids gathering pipelines regulated
by §8.110 of this title (relating to Gathering Pipelines) shall
file with the Commission a written report on an accident
described in paragraph (1) of this subsection utilizing the
applicable form from the DOT within 30 calendar days after
the date of the accident.
(2) Accidents involving hazardous liquids, other than
crude oil, and carbon dioxide. For accidents involving
hazardous liquids, other than crude oil, and carbon dioxide,
the operator shall:
(A) notify the Division of such accident by telephone to
the Commission's emergency line at (512) 463-6788 at the
earliest practicable moment following confirmed discovery
(within one hour) and include the information listed in
paragraph (1)(A)(i) - (viii) of this subsection; and
(B) within 30 days of discovery of the accident,
complete and retain the written report as required by 49 CFR
Part 195. An operator shall provide a copy of the accident
report to the Commission upon request. Operators of
hazardous liquids gathering pipelines regulated by §8.110 of
this title shall file with the Commission a written report on
an accident described in paragraph (2) of this subsection
utilizing the applicable form from the DOT within 30
calendar days after the date of the accident.
(b) Annual report. Each operator shall retain the annual
report required by 49 CFR Part 195 for its intrastate systems.
An operator shall provide a copy of the annual report to the
Commission upon request.
(c) Safety-related condition reports. Each operator shall
submit to the Division in writing a safety-related condition
report for any condition specified in 49 CFR Part 195.
(d) Facility response plans. An operator required to file an
initial or a revised facility response plan, prepared under the
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 for all or any part of a hazardous
liquid pipeline facility located landward of the coast, with the
Department of Transportation is not required to concurrently
file the plan with the Commission, but shall retain a copy and
provide it to the Commission upon request.
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