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Title: Pipeline Routing Permit
Alternate Title:
Description: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC)
Subject: Pipelines
Utilities
Utility Crossings
Creation Date: 9/11/2008 2:16:12 PM
Modification Date: 2/4/2025 8:33:04 AM

Agency Name: Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Minnesota
Agency URL: https://mn.gov/puc/
Agency Description: The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regulates three service industries in Minnesota, electricity, natural gas, and telephone. It is the commission's responsibility to ensure that vendors of these services provide safe, adequate, and reliable service at fair, reasonable rates.
Agency Phone: 651-296-0406
800-657-3782
Agency Fax: 651-297-7073
Agency URL: https://mn.gov/puc/

Agency Address:
121 7th Place East, Suite 350

St. Paul
MN 55101-2147

Unit Name: Email
Unit URL:
Unit Description:
Unit Phone: Unit Fax: Contact person(s): publicadvisor.puc@state.mn.us
Unit URL:

Audience: Hold Application URL:
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Requirements:

See Pipelines

Minnesota Law requires a pipeline routing permit issued by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (Commission) to construct and install certain intrastate pipelines designed to transport hazardous liquids. The Commission has jurisdiction over the routing of pipelines with a nominal diameter of six inches or more that are designed to transport hazardous liquids and pipelines designed to be operated at a pressure of more than 275 pounds per square inch and carry natural gas. The Commission’s authority doesn’t apply to interstate natural gas pipelines under authority of the federal Natural Gas Act or to pipeline owners or operators who are defined as a natural gas public utility in addition to other exclusions outlined in Minnesota Rules.

There are three processes a pipeline project may go through to get a permit: information book, partial exemption process, and the route permit process.

Rules: 7852

Statutes: 216G

Forms:

No specific form. Contact the Minnesota Office of Energy Security, Energy Facilities Permitting Unit. for information regarding what is to be required to be included in the application. See Minn. Rules 7852.2100

Fees:

The reasonable costs of processing the permit application.

Period of Issuance:

Indefinite.

Length of Determination:

Partial exemption process is 2-4 months. Full pipeline routing permit must be issued within nine months after acceptance of the application.

Other Info:
Activity: Pipelines
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Energy Facilities Permitting

Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Minnesota

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