16 Tex. Admin. Code § 8.301 - Required Records and Reporting
(a)
Accident reports. In the event of any failure or accident involving an
intrastate pipeline facility from which any hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide
is released, if the failure or accident is required to be reported by
49 CFR §§
195.50 or
49
C.F.R. 195.52, the operator shall also report
to the Commission as follows.
(1) Accidents
involving crude oil. In the event of an accident involving crude oil, the
operator shall:
(A) notify the Division,
which shall notify the Commission's appropriate Oil and Gas district office, by
telephone to the Commission's emergency line at (512) 463-6788 at the earliest
practicable moment but no later than one hour following confirmed discovery of
the accident and include the following information:
(i) company/operator name;
(ii) location of accident;
(iii) time and date of accident;
(iv) fatalities and/or personal
injuries;
(v) phone number of
operator;
(vi) telephone number of
operator;
(vii) telephone number of
the operator's on-site person;
(viii) other significant facts relevant to
the accident, such as ignition, explosion, rerouting of traffic, evacuation of
any building, and media interest; and
(B) following the initial telephonic report
for accidents described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the operator shall
retain its records and provide to the Commission upon request the applicable
written reports submitted to the DOT. Operators of hazardous liquids gathering
pipelines regulated by §
8.110 of this title (relating to
Gathering Pipelines) shall file with the Commission a written report on an
accident described in paragraph (1) of this subsection utilizing the applicable
form from the DOT within 30 calendar days after the date of the
accident.
(2) Accidents
involving hazardous liquids, other than crude oil, and carbon dioxide. For
accidents involving hazardous liquids, other than crude oil, and carbon
dioxide, the operator shall:
(A) notify the
Division of such accident by telephone to the Commission's emergency line at
(512) 463-6788 at the earliest practicable moment following confirmed discovery
(within one hour) and include the information listed in paragraph (1)(A)(i) -
(viii) of this subsection; and
(B)
within 30 days of discovery of the accident, complete and retain the written
report as required by 49 CFR Part 195 . An operator shall provide a copy of the
accident report to the Commission upon request. Operators of hazardous liquids
gathering pipelines regulated by §
8.110 of this title shall file
with the Commission a written report on an accident described in paragraph (2)
of this subsection utilizing the applicable form from the DOT within 30
calendar days after the date of the accident.
(b) Annual report. Each operator shall retain
the annual report required by 49 CFR Part 195 for its intrastate systems. An
operator shall provide a copy of the annual report to the Commission upon
request.
(c) Safety-related
condition reports. Each operator shall submit to the Division in writing a
safety-related condition report for any condition specified in 49 CFR Part
195.
(d) Facility response plans.
An operator required to file an initial or a revised facility response plan,
prepared under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 for all or any part of a hazardous
liquid pipeline facility located landward of the coast, with the Department of
Transportation is not required to concurrently file the plan with the
Commission, but shall retain a copy and provide it to the Commission upon
request.
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