Rule2025-19341
Pipeline Safety: Standards Update-API Spec 6D
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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 parts 192 and 195 to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard American Petroleum Institute (API) Specification 6D, "Specification for Valves."
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 189 (Thursday, October 2, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 47625-47626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19341]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
49 CFR Parts 192 and 195
[Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0119]
RIN 2137-AF87
Pipeline Safety: Standards Update--API Spec 6D
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 parts 192 and 195 to incorporate by
reference the updated industry standard American Petroleum Institute
(API) Specification 6D, ``Specification for Valves.''
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
28101).
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brianna Wilson, Transportation
Specialist, by phone at 771-215-0969 or email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5436263d353a3a357a233d38273b3a14303b207a333b22"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b1d3c3d8d0dfdfd09fc6d8ddc2dedff1d5dec59fd6dec7">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 1, 2025 (90 FR 28101), PHMSA
published a DFR amending its regulations at 49 CFR parts 192 and 195 to
incorporate by reference the 25th edition of API Specification 6D,
``Specification for Valves'' (issued November 1, 2021). References to
the 25th edition of the standard will replace existing references in 49
CFR 192.145(a) and 195.116(d) to API Specification Spec 6D,
``Specification for Pipeline and Piping Valves,'' 24th edition, August
2014, including Errata 1 through 10 (October 2014 through July 2021),
Addendum 1 (March 2015), and Addendum 2 (June 2016).
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. 2025-19341 Filed 10-1-25; 8:45 am]
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