# Pipeline Safety: Miscellaneous Changes to Pipeline Safety Regulations: Response to Petitions for Reconsideration
> **Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration** · Final rule; response to petitions for reconsideration. · Published 2015-09-30 · Effective 2015-03-11 · 80 FR 58633
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-24763
- **Category:** pipeline-safety
- **Sub-agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 58633
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 192
- **Publication date:** 2015-09-30
- **Effective date:** 2015-03-11
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. PHMSA-2010-0026
## Abstract

On March 11, 2015, PHMSA published a final rule amending the pipeline safety regulations to make miscellaneous changes that updated and clarified certain regulatory requirements. These amendments addressed several subject matter areas, including the performance of post-construction inspections, Type B onshore gas gathering line leak surveys, qualifying plastic pipe joiners, ethanol regulation, pipe transportation, offshore pipeline condition report filing, pressure reduction calculations for hazardous liquid pipeline anomalies, and components fabricated by welding. This final rule responds to petitions for reconsideration of the final rule.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/09/30/2015-24763/pipeline-safety-miscellaneous-changes-to-pipeline-safety-regulations-response-to-petitions-for)
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