# Pipeline Safety: Standards Update-API RP 2026
> **Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration** · Direct final rule (DFR); confirmation of effective date. · Published 2025-10-02 · Effective 2026-01-01 · 90 FR 47627
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-19339
- **Category:** pipeline-safety
- **Sub-agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 47627
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 195
- **Publication date:** 2025-10-02
- **Effective date:** 2026-01-01
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0122
## Abstract

PHMSA is confirming the effective date for the DFR that appeared in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025. The DFR amended PHMSA's regulations at 49 CFR part 195 to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice (RP) 2026, "Safe Access/Egress Involving Floating Roofs of Storage Tanks in Petroleum Service."

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/02/2025-19339/pipeline-safety-standards-update-api-rp-2026)
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