Rule2025-19339
Pipeline Safety: Standards Update-API RP 2026
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Published
October 2, 2025
Effective
January 1, 2026
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
PHMSA is confirming the effective date for the DFR that appeared in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025. The DFR amended PHMSA's regulations at 49 CFR part 195 to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice (RP) 2026, "Safe Access/Egress Involving Floating Roofs of Storage Tanks in Petroleum Service."
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 189 (Thursday, October 2, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 47627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19339]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
49 CFR Part 195
[Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0122]
RIN 2137-AF90
Pipeline Safety: Standards Update--API RP 2026
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Direct final rule (DFR); confirmation of effective date.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA is confirming the effective date for the DFR that
appeared in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025. The DFR amended
PHMSA's regulations at 49 CFR part 195 to incorporate by reference the
updated industry standard American Petroleum Institute (API)
Recommended Practice (RP) 2026, ``Safe Access/Egress Involving Floating
Roofs of Storage Tanks in Petroleum Service.''
DATES: PHMSA confirms the effective date of January 1, 2026, for the
DFR that appeared in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025 (90 FR
28116).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brianna Wilson, Transportation
Specialist, by phone at 771-215-0969 or email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a1c3d3c8c0cfcfc08fd6c8cdd2cecfe1c5ced58fc6ced7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d3b1a1bab2bdbdb2fda4babfa0bcbd93b7bca7fdb4bca5">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 1, 2025 (90 FR 28116), PHMSA
published a DFR amending its regulations at 49 CFR part 195 to
incorporate by reference the 4th edition of API RP 2026, ``Safe Access/
Egress Involving Floating Roofs of Storage Tanks in Petroleum
Service.'' Reference to the 4th edition of API RP 2026 will replace
existing references within 49 CFR 195.405(b) to API Recommended
Practice 2026, ``Safe Access/Egress Involving Floating Roofs of Storage
Tanks in Petroleum Service,'' 3rd edition, June 2017.
PHMSA issued the DFR under the procedures set forth at 49 CFR
190.339. In accordance with those provisions, PHMSA stated in the DFR
that if no adverse comments were received, the DFR would become final
and effective on January 1, 2026. PHMSA did not receive any comments
that warranted withdrawal of the DFR; therefore, this rule will become
effective as scheduled.
Issued in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2025, under the
authority designated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Benjamin D. Kochman,
Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2025-19339 Filed 10-1-25; 8:45 am]
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