# 2026-12315: Agency Seeks Comments on Pipeline Reporting Forms

2026-12315, Pipeline Safety: Information Collection Activities, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department published 2026-06-18, effective Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before August 17, 2026.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-25).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-12315
- As of: 2026-06-25
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2026-12315
- Title: Pipeline Safety: Information Collection Activities
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department
- Citation: 91 FR 36946
- Published: 2026-06-18
- Effective: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before August 17, 2026.
- Comments close: 2026-08-17
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-25

## In one line

Agency Seeks Comments on Pipeline Reporting Forms

## Summary

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) wants to update the forms pipeline companies use to report accidents and yearly info about gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. They’re asking for public feedback by August 17, 2026, to make sure the new forms are clear and useful. These changes help keep pipelines safer without adding extra costs or delays.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA invites comments on proposed revisions to incident, accident, and annual report forms for gas and hazardous liquid (carbon dioxide) pipeline facilities, as well as the National Pipeline Mapping System information collection.

## Effects PRIA read

- Operators: Major reporting burden cut: benefit, medium. PHMSA proposes removing many fields from annual, incident, and accident forms to reduce operator paperwork and duplication. Examples include removing time zone and daylight savings fields, zip code fields, granular fatality/injury subcategories, NRC timestamp fields, non-overnight hospitalization f…
- New material-specific reporting required: cost, medium. PHMSA proposes new annual reporting for certain high-risk materials: operators must report mileage of 'PE Brittle-Like' distribution mains and services (as defined in Advisory Bulletin 07-01, Sep. 6, 2007), and report cast- and wrought-iron pipelines six inches or less in diameter plus counts for P…
- Remove anomaly counts from Part F: benefit, low. PHMSA proposes removing the requirement to report the number of 'anomalies' identified and excavated in Part F of annual reports, relying instead on the number of conditions repaired. This applies to gas transmission, hazardous liquid, and other relevant annual reports.
- Use NPMS as single source for diameter and tanks: benefit, low. PHMSA proposes removing annual report Parts that duplicate National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) attributes: pipeline diameter reporting (Part H) and breakout tank interstate/intrastate designations (Part M) will be moved to NPMS submissions and PHMSA will generate tabular outputs from NPMS.
- New corrosion and CP metrics required: cost, medium. PHMSA proposes adding technical corrosion-related fields to incident/accident forms, including stray current density (mA/cm2), cathodic protection (CP) potentials and criteria (on/off potentials), and the location of corrosion coupons. These will appear in amended Part G1/E and related sections.
- Data changes aimed at better safety analysis: benefit, medium. PHMSA states that the proposed form changes are intended to improve pipeline safety by ensuring that information collected is necessary, less duplicative, and more useful for risk-based, data-driven safety decisions. PHMSA expects improved ability to analyze causes and consequences of incidents.
- Standardized contributing-factor categories: mixed, low. PHMSA proposes replacing overlapping, inconsistent lists of incident contributing factors in Parts J/K with a single standardized list (for example: Communication/Planning, Construction Practices, Control Room Operations, Leak Detection, Manufacturing Defect, Training, etc.) and requiring operators…

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## Sources
- [2026-12315 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/18/2026-12315/pipeline-safety-information-collection-activities)
- [2026-12315 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-18/pdf/2026-12315.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-12315 (as of 2026-06-25).