California Government Code 51013 – (a) Any new pipeline constructed after January 1, 1984, and …
(a) Any new pipeline constructed after January 1, 1984, and which normally operates under conditions of constant flow and pressure, shall be designed and constructed in accordance with Subparts C and D of Part 195 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and shall include a means of leak detection and cathodic protection which the State Fire Marshal determines is acceptable, except that any pipeline which transports by gravity or operates at a stress level of 20 percent or less of the specified minimum yield strength of the pipe shall meet these design and construction requirements on or before January 1, 1991.
(b) Any new pipeline on which construction begins after January 1, 1990, shall be designed to accommodate the passage of instrumented internal inspection devices, and shall have leak mitigation and emergency response plans and equipment as the State Fire Marshal may require. Any repairs to existing pipelines which can accommodate instrumented internal inspection devices shall be done in a manner not to interfere with the passage of these devices.
Terms Used In California Government Code 51013
- Pipeline: includes every intrastate pipeline used for the transportation of hazardous liquid substances or highly volatile liquid substances, including a common carrier pipeline, and all piping containing those substances located within a refined products bulk loading facility that is owned by a common carrier and is served by a pipeline of that common carrier, and the common carrier owns and serves by pipeline at least five of these facilities in the state. See California Government Code 51010.5
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
(c) Subdivision (a) does not apply to the replacement of valves and the relocation or replacement of portions of pipelines.
(d) For pipelines which cannot accommodate internal inspection devices, replacements of portions of the pipe shall be done in a manner consistent, to the extent practicable, with the eventual accommodation of instrumented internal inspection devices.
(Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1277, Sec. 3.)