Appendix A - Procedure for Determining Reporting Threshold.

2025 Gas property Damage Reporting Threshold Inflation Adjustment

I.  Property Damage Threshold Formula

Each year after calendar year 2021, the Administrator [the Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration or his or her delegate] will publish a notice on PHMSA's website announcing the updates to the property damage threshold criterion that will take effect on July 1 of that year and will remain in effect until the June 30 of the next year. The property damage threshold used in the definition of an Incident [Any of the following events: 1. An event that involves a release of gas from a pipeline, or of liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, refrigerant gas, or gas from an LNG facility, and that results in one or more of the following consequences: (i) A death, or personal injury necessitating in-patient hospitalization; or (ii) Estimated property damage of $50,000 or more, including loss to the operator and others, or both, but excluding cost of gas lost; (iii) Unintentional estimated gas loss of three million cubic feet or more; (2) An event that results in an emergency shutdown of an LNG facility. Activation of an emergency shutdown system for reasons other than an actual emergency does not constitute an incident. (3) An event that is significant, in the judgment of the operator, even though it did not meet the criteria of paragraphs (1) or (2) of this definition.] at § 191.3 shall be determined in accordance with the following formula:

Where:

Tr is the revised damage threshold,

Tp is the previous damage threshold,

CPIr is the average Consumer Price Indices for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics each month during the most recent complete calendar year, and

CPIp is the average CPI-U for the calendar year used to establish the previous property damage criteria.

[86 FR 2237, Jan. 11, 2021]