---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 195.444"
title: "49"
number: "195.444"
heading: "Leak detection."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/195.444"
---

# §195.444. Leak detection.

- (a) **Scope.** Except for offshore gathering and regulated rural gathering pipelines, this section applies to all hazardous liquid pipelines transporting liquid in single phase (without gas in the liquid).
- (b) **General.** A pipeline must have an effective system for detecting leaks in accordance with §§ [195.134](/cfr/49/195.134.md) or [195.452](/cfr/49/195.452.md), as appropriate. An operator must evaluate the capability of its leak detection system to protect the public, property, and the environment and modify it as necessary to do so. At a minimum, an operator's evaluation must consider the following factors—length and size of the pipeline, type of product carried, the swiftness of leak detection, location of nearest response personnel, and leak history.
- (c) **CPM leak detection systems.** Each computational pipeline monitoring (CPM) leak detection system installed on a hazardous liquid pipeline must comply with API RP 1130 (incorporated by reference, see [§ 195.3](/cfr/49/195.3.md)) in operating, maintaining, testing, record keeping, and dispatcher training of the system.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Amdt. 195-102, 84 FR 52296, Oct. 1, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 185(w)(3), 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60101 et seq., and 49 CFR 1.97.

### Source

Source: Amdt. 195-22, 46 FR 38360, July 27, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Amdt. 195-102, 84 FR 52296, Oct. 1, 2019]