18 CFR § 12.51 - Monitoring instruments.

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title: "18 CFR § 12.51 - Monitoring instruments."
title_number: 18
title_name: "Conservation of Power and Water Resources"
section_number: "12.51"
section_name: "Monitoring instruments."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "REGULATIONS UNDER THE FEDERAL POWER ACT"
part_number: "12"
part_name: "SAFETY OF WATER POWER PROJECTS AND PROJECT WORKS"
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authority: "16 U.S.C. 791a-825r; 42 U.S.C. 7101-7352."
regulatory_source: "Order 122, 46 FR 9036, Jan. 28, 1981, unless otherwise noted."
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# 12.51 Monitoring instruments.

(a) In designing a project, a licensee must make adequate provision for installing and maintaining appropriate monitoring instrumentation whenever any physical condition that might affect the stability of a project structure has been discovered or is anticipated. The instrumentation must be satisfactory to the Regional Engineer and may include, for example, instruments to monitor movement of joints, foundation or embankment deformation, seismic effects, hydrostatic pore pressures, structural cracking, or internal stresses on the structure.

(b) If an applicant or licensee discovers any condition affecting the safety of the project or project works during the course of construction or operation, the applicant or licensee must install and maintain any monitoring devices and instruments that may be required by the Regional Engineer or other authorized Commission representative to monitor that condition.

[Order 122, 46 FR 9036, Jan. 28, 1981. Redesignated at 87 FR 1519, Jan. 11, 2022; 87 FR 8411, Feb. 15, 2022]