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Beginning July 1, 2023, the property damage threshold for gas pipeline incident reporting will increase to $139,700.  

The federal regulation requiring incident reporting can be found at 49 CFR 191.5. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) defines an incident as an event involving the release of gas from a pipeline that causes a death, or personal injury necessitating in-patient hospitalization, estimated property damage of greater than the current threshold (which includes loss to the operator and others, but excludes the cost of gas lost), or an unintentional estimated gas loss of 3 million cubic feet or more. In 2021, PHMSA passed a regulation that automatically adjusts the property damage threshold for incidents each year based upon the “average Consumer Price Indices for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U)," which is published each year by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

For more information concerning incident reporting, visit https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/incident-reporting.

For questions on this article, please contact Erin Kurilla of APGA staff by phone at 202-905-2904 or by email at ekurilla@apga.org.