Section 170IAC5-3-2. Federal regulations; revision

   Indiana specific revisions to federal regulations, 49 CFR, Part 192 and Part 195 are as follows:

(1) Procedural manual for operations, maintenance, and emergencies (49 CFR 192.605 and 49 CFR 195.402) shall read as follows:

(a) Each operator shall do the following:

(1) Have a written plan covering the:

(A) emergency;

(B) operations; and

(C) maintenance;

procedures to be used by the operator to ensure the safe operation of its pipeline facilities. The plan shall include, by sections, the emergency, operations, and maintenance procedures for all the pipeline facilities and shall include procedures for handling abnormal operations. This plan, when filed, becomes a regulation for the particular operator who filed it.

(2) File a copy of the plan, signed or submitted electronically by an official of the operator, with the division.

(3) Keep records necessary to administer the plan effectively.

(4) Revise the plan as:

(A) experience dictates; and

(B) exposure of the facilities and changes in operating conditions might warrant.

(5) File with the division all subsequent revisions of the plan not later than twenty (20) days after the effective date of the changes. Minor revisions may be made in a cover letter.

(2) Customer Meters and Regulators: Installation (49 CFR 192.357). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.553, paragraph (e) shall be adopted in Indiana and shall read as follows:

(e) An operator may not initiate or reinstate gas service without first ascertaining that:

(1) the meter and regulator are:

(A) properly sized and installed for their intended use;

(B) pressure tight at the operating pressure; and

(C) protected from reasonably anticipated outside forces, including, but not limited to, reasonably anticipated:

(i) vehicular impact; and

(ii) natural forces, including, but not limited to:

(AA) ice;

(BB) water runoff; and

(CC) snow; and

(2) for residential customers, the piping from the meter to the customer's appliance valves is pressure tight at the operating pressure.

(3) Service Lines; Location of Valves (49 CFR 192.365). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.365 paragraphs (a) and (c), in Indiana, paragraph (b) shall read as follows:

(b) Each service line must have a shutoff valve in a readily accessible location that is outside of the building.

(4) Service Lines: Cast Iron and Ductile Iron (49 CFR 192.373). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.373 paragraphs (b) and (c), in Indiana, paragraph (a) shall read as follows:

(a) Cast or ductile iron pipe shall not be installed for service lines.

(5) Test Requirements - General (49 CFR 192.503). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.503 paragraphs (b), (c), and (d), in Indiana, paragraphs (a) and (e) shall read as follows:

(a) No person may operate a new segment of pipeline, or return to service a segment of pipeline that has been relocated, replaced, or has been abandoned previously, until:

(1) it has been tested in accordance with this subpart and 49 CFR 192.619 to substantiate the maximum allowable operating pressure; and

(2) each potentially hazardous leak has been located and eliminated.

(e) No testing, by a medium other than natural gas under this subpart, may be done against a valve on a jurisdictional part of the system that is connected by the valve to a source of gas, unless a positive suitable means has been provided to prevent the leakage or admission of the testing medium into a jurisdictional part of the system.

(6) Test Requirements for Pipelines to Operate at or below 100 psig (49 CFR 192.509). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.509 paragraph (a), in Indiana, paragraph (b) shall read as follows:

(b) Each main that is to be operated at less than one (1) psig must be tested to at least ten (10) psig, and each main to be operated at or above one (1) psig must be tested to one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the maximum operating pressure or at least ninety (90) psig, whichever is greater.

(7) Test Requirements for Service Lines (49 CFR 192.511). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.511 paragraph (a), in Indiana, paragraphs (b) and (c) shall read as follows:

(b) Each segment of a service line (other than plastic) stressed under twenty percent (20%) SMYS must be tested at one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the maximum operating pressure or at least to ninety (90) psig, whichever is greater. The test procedure used must ensure discovery of all potentially hazardous leaks in the segment being tested.

(c) Each segment of a service line (other than plastic) stressed to twenty percent (20%) or more of SMYS must be tested in accordance with Section 192.505 or 192.507, whichever is applicable, of this subpart.

(8) Subpart K - Uprating; General Requirements (49 CFR 192.553). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.553, paragraph (e) shall be adopted in Indiana and shall read as follows:

(e) Service regulators supplying gas from transmission lines or distribution mains that are being uprated under this subpart shall meet the requirements of Section 192.197.

(9) Uprating: Steel Pipelines to a Pressure That Will Produce a Hoop Stress less than 30 Percent of SMYS; Plastic, Cast Iron and Ductile Iron Pipelines (49 CFR 192.557). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.557 except for paragraph (b)(5), in Indiana, paragraph (b)(5) shall read as follows:

(b)(5) Isolate by physical separation all mains between the segment of pipeline in which the pressure is to be increased from an adjacent segment that will continue to be operated at the lower pressure, except the mains that are required to supply through a pressure regulator (with approved overpressure protection designed in accordance with Section 192.195), the adjacent segment that will continue to be operated at the lower pressure; and

(10) Subpart L - Operations; General Provisions (49 CFR 192.603, 49 CFR 195). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.603 paragraphs (a) and (b), in Indiana paragraph (c) shall read as follows:

(c) Each operator shall maintain a system of records of its physical plant. These shall include records and maps of its active physical plant in use, and be in a form as to facilitate the operation and maintenance of the plant in a safe manner. The records shall be reviewed, with documentation, and updated, with documentation, when an addition, deletion, or change of the system occurs each calendar year at intervals not exceeding fifteen (15) months. Included on the maps shall be:

(1) main;

(2) sizes;

(3) materials;

(4) pressure ranges; and

(5) location of:

(A) mains emergency valves;

(B) regulator stations;

(C) rectifiers; and

(D) critical bonds.

(11) Emergency Plans (49 CFR 192.615). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.615, paragraph (d) shall be adopted in Indiana and shall read as follows:

(d) Each operator shall carry a listing in the current telephone directory of each community that it serves or within which it operates whereby a responsible employee or agent of the operator may be reached on a twenty-four (24) hour basis.

(12) Distribution Systems: Leakage Surveys and Procedures (49 CFR 192.723). In addition to the language contained in 49 CFR 192.723 paragraph (a), paragraphs (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (c), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (d) shall be adopted and shall read as follows:

(b)(1) A leak survey using gas detection equipment shall be conducted in:

(1) business districts;

(2) areas of high occupancy buildings as identified in the operator's operations and maintenance procedures, including, but not limited to:

(A) schools;

(B) churches;

(C) hospitals;

(D) apartment buildings; and

(E) commercial buildings;

(3) built-up residential areas where continuous pavement exists; and

(4) other areas as the commission may direct;

once each calendar year at intervals not exceeding fifteen (15) months. The surveys in business districts and areas of high occupancy buildings, listed in subdivisions (1) and (2), shall be made at least to the meter outlet. Tests shall include tests of the atmosphere in utility manholes, at cracks in the pavement and sidewalks and other locations providing an opportunity for finding gas leakage.

(b)(2) Leakage surveys of the distribution system outside of the areas as listed in (b)(1) must be made as frequently as necessary but at least once every five (5) years at intervals not to exceed sixty-three (63) months. A vegetation type survey shall not be used as a single means of leakage control.

(b)(3) Each operator shall establish and execute a plan by which it will periodically survey each customer-owned service line for leakage once every five (5) calendar years at intervals not to exceed sixty-three (63) months. For purposes of this section, the term "customer-owned service" shall mean buried metallic gas carrying piping that is between the outlet of the meter and the entry of the building wall of a residential dwelling. The term does not include the following:

(1) Farm taps.

(2) Services directly off mains that have an operating pressure of greater than sixty (60) psig.

(3) Diversions to structures other than the residential dwelling located on the premises.

(4) Services with meter settings adjacent to the structure being served.

(c) All leaks reported, regardless of the origin of the reports, shall be recorded on suitable report forms. These report forms must provide space for all pertinent information. Each leak reported shall be accounted for, and actions taken in response to leaks shall be documented and filed in a systematic manner.

(c)(1) All leaks reported shall be investigated promptly and classified in accordance with procedures outlined in the operator's operations and maintenance plan. The procedures shall include acceptable response times and shall ensure that gas leakage that is hazardous to life or property shall receive immediate attention for repairs.

(c)(2) Leak indications where repairs are not completed shall be rechecked on subsequent surveys, depending on the operator's classification and in accordance with the operator's procedures.

(d) Records shall be made covering these surveys, inspections, and repairs made. These records, along with all other routine or unusual inspections and repairs, shall be kept in the file of the operating company.

(Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission; No. 32885: Minimum Safety Standards for Transportation of Gas and Related Pipeline Facilities Rule 2; filed May 12, 1972, 10:30 a.m.: Rules and Regs. 1973, p. 537; filed May 7, 1982, 2:00 p.m.: 5 IR 1176; readopted filed Jul 11, 2001, 4:30 p.m.: 24 IR 4233; readopted filed Apr 24, 2007, 8:21 a.m.: 20070509-IR-170070147RFA; filed Feb 9, 2010, 9:24 a.m.: 20100310-IR-170090190FRA; filed May 27, 2016, 11:39 a.m.: 20160622-IR-170150424FRA)