---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 15302"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "15302"
heading: "Authority to exempt pipeline carrier transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/15302"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part C — Pipeline Carriers"
  - "Chapter 153 — Jurisdiction"
---

# §15302. Authority to exempt pipeline carrier transportation

- (a) **In General—** In a matter related to a [pipeline carrier](/usc/49/15102.md?p=2) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to jurisdiction under this chapter, the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) shall exempt a [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18), class of [persons](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18), or a transaction or service when the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) finds that the application, in whole or in part, of a provision of this part—
  - (1) is not necessary to carry out the [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) policy of [section 15101](/usc/49/15101.md); and
  - (2) either (A) the transaction or service is of limited scope, or (B) the application, in whole or in part, of the provision is not needed to protect shippers from the abuse of market power.
- (b) **Initiation of Proceeding.—** The [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) may, where appropriate, begin a proceeding under this section on its own initiative or an interested party.
- (c) **Period of Exemption.—** The [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) may specify the period of time during which an exemption granted under this section is effective.
- (d) **Revocation.—** The [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) may revoke an exemption, to the extent it specifies, when it finds that application, in whole or in part, of a provision of this part to the [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18), class, or [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) is necessary to carry out the [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) policy of section 15101.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 106(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 923.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.