§ 23-15-205. Safety standards
(a) The Arkansas Public Service Commission by order may promulgate, amend, enforce, waive, and repeal minimum safety standards for the transportation of gas and pipeline facilities. (b) (1) These standards may apply to the design, installation, inspection, testing, construction, extension, operation, replacement, and maintenance of pipeline facilities. (2) The state safety standards shall be practicable […]
§ 23-15-206. Reports, records, etc., to be maintained — Access by commission
(a) The Arkansas Public Service Commission may require persons subject to this subchapter to maintain record maintenance, reporting, and inspection. (b) Each person who engages in the transportation of gas or who owns or operates pipeline facilities shall establish and maintain such records, make such reports, and provide such information as the commission may reasonably […]
§ 23-15-207. Inspections and investigations generally
(a) (1) The Arkansas Public Service Commission may make inspections and investigations consistent with this subchapter and conduct investigations of pipeline failures whenever needed, and in connection therewith, enter private or public property at all reasonable times. (2) The results of investigations shall be reduced to writing if any enforcement action is contemplated and a […]
§ 23-15-208. Inspection and maintenance plans
(a) Each person who engages in the transportation of gas or who owns or operates pipeline facilities not subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Natural Gas Act shall file with the Arkansas Public Service Commission a plan for inspection and maintenance of each pipeline facility owned or operated by […]
§ 23-15-209. Compliance and waiver
(a) Each person who engages in the transportation of gas or who owns or operates pipeline facilities shall: (1) At all times after the date any applicable safety standard established under this subchapter takes effect, comply with the requirements of such standard; (2) File and comply with a plan of inspection and maintenance required by […]
§ 23-15-210. Confidentiality of information obtained by commission — Exception
(a) All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the Arkansas Public Service Commission or its representative pursuant to the provisions hereof, which information contains or relates to a trade secret referred to in 18 U.S.C. § 1905, shall be considered confidential for the purpose of that section, except that the information may be disclosed […]
§ 23-15-211. Civil penalty — Compromise — Proceedings
(a) A person who violates a provision of § 23-15-209 or a rule issued under this subchapter is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed: (1) Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for each day that the violation persists; and (2) Two million dollars ($2,000,000) for any related series of violations. (b) Any such civil […]