WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has issued a rule called: Pipeline Safety: Class Location Change Requirements; Correction.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on May 29 by Linda Daugherty, Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
Summary: PHMSA is making a technical correction to a January 14, 2026 final rule that amended the class location change requirements. The final rule allows an operator to confirm or to restore the maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) of an eligible gas transmission pipeline segment that experiences a class location change by implementing an integrity management (IM) alternative. For MAOP restorations, PHMSA is clarifying in this correction ...