49 CFR § 192.359 - Customer meter installations: Operating pressure.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t49/s192.359"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "49 CFR § 192.359 - Customer meter installations: Operating pressure."
title_number: 49
title_name: "Transportation"
section_number: "192.359"
section_name: "Customer meter installations: Operating pressure."
chapter_name: "PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "PIPELINE SAFETY"
part_number: "192"
part_name: "TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL AND OTHER GAS BY PIPELINE: MINIMUM FEDERAL SAFETY STANDARDS"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "30 U.S.C. 185(w)(3), 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60101 and 49 CFR 1.97."
regulatory_source: "35 FR 13257, Aug. 19, 1970, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "192"
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# 192.359 Customer meter installations: Operating pressure.
(a) A meter may not be used at a pressure that is more than 67 percent of the manufacturer's shell test pressure.
(b) Each newly installed meter manufactured after November 12, 1970, must have been tested to a minimum of 10 p.s.i. (69 kPa) gage.
(c) A rebuilt or repaired tinned steel case meter may not be used at a pressure that is more than 50 percent of the pressure used to test the meter after rebuilding or repairing.
[35 FR 13257, Aug. 19, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 192-1, 35 FR 17660, Nov. 17, 1970; Amdt. 192-85, 63 FR 37503, July 13, 1998]