Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Mar 17, 2025
§ 58.16-16 - Reducing regulators.

(a) All systems shall be provided with a regulating device so adjusted as to release gas to the distribution tubing at a pressure not in excess of 18 inches water column, or approximately 10.5 ounces per square inch.

(b) The low-pressure side of all regulators must be protected against excessive pressure by means of a suitable relief valve, which must be integral with the regulator. The relief valve must be set to start to discharge at a pressure not less than two times and not more than three times the delivery pressure.

(c) All reducing regulators must be fitted with a pressure gage located on the high-pressure side of the regulator.

authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306,3703; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.3
source: CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18878, Dec. 18, 1968, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 58.16-16