49 U.S.C. § 60113

Customer-owned natural gas service lines

Not later than October 24, 1993 , the Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe standards requiring an operator of a natural gas distribution pipeline that does not maintain customer-owned natural gas service lines up to building walls to advise its customers of—

(1)

the requirements for maintaining those lines;

(2)

any resources known to the operator that could assist customers in carrying out the maintenance;

(3)

information the operator has on operating and maintaining its lines that could assist customers; and

(4)

the potential hazards of not maintaining the lines.

( Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e) , July 5, 1994 , 108 Stat. 1318 ; Pub. L. 104–304 , §§ 9, 20(k), Oct. 12, 1996 , 110 Stat. 3801 , 3805.)