# Pipeline Safety: Operator Qualification, Cost Recovery, Accident and Incident Notification, and Other Pipeline Safety Changes
> **Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2017-01-23 · Effective 2017-03-24 · 82 FR 7972
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-31461
- **Category:** pipeline-safety
- **Sub-agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 7972
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 190
- **Publication date:** 2017-01-23
- **Effective date:** 2017-03-24
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. PHMSA-2013-0163
## Abstract

PHMSA is amending the pipeline safety regulations to address requirements of the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 (2011 Act), and to update and clarify certain regulatory requirements. Among other provisions, PHMSA is adding a specific time frame for telephonic or electronic notifications of accidents and incidents and adding provisions for cost recovery for design reviews of certain new projects, for the renewal of expiring special permits, and setting out the process for requesting protection of confidential commercial information. PHMSA is also amending the drug and alcohol testing requirements, and incorporating consensus standards by reference for in-line inspection (ILI) and Stress Corrosion Cracking Direct Assessment (SCCDA).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/23/2016-31461/pipeline-safety-operator-qualification-cost-recovery-accident-and-incident-notification-and-other)
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