# Pipeline Safety: Inflation Adjustment of Maximum Civil Penalties
> **Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2017-04-27 · Effective 2017-04-27 · 82 FR 19325
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-08530
- **Category:** pipeline-safety
- **Sub-agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 19325
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 190
- **Publication date:** 2017-04-27
- **Effective date:** 2017-04-27
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. PHMSA-2016-0010
## Abstract

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is revising references in its regulations to the maximum civil penalties for violations of Federal pipeline safety laws, or any PHMSA regulations or orders issued thereunder. Under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, which further amended the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, Federal agencies are required to adjust their civil monetary penalties effective January 15, 2017, and annually thereafter, to account for changes in inflation. PHMSA finds good cause to amend the regulations related to civil penalties without notice or opportunity for public comment. Advance public notice is unnecessary for the reasons described in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/04/27/2017-08530/pipeline-safety-inflation-adjustment-of-maximum-civil-penalties)
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