Pipeline Safety, Modernization, and Expansion: New Rules and Consumer Fuel Choice
This Act updates pipeline regulations to enhance safety across gas, hazardous liquid, and carbon dioxide pipelines, introducing mandatory safety zones and leak detection requirements. It also addresses infrastructure modernization and explicitly prevents local governments from limiting or prohibiting the transportation or distribution of energy sources sold in interstate commerce and transported via pipeline. Additionally, it establishes a voluntary information-sharing system for safety data.
Key points
Enhanced Safety Measures: Mandates worker and public safety zones during pipeline construction and requires specific actions for detecting and responding to carbon dioxide leaks.
Protecting Fuel Access: Prohibits states or municipalities from limiting or prohibiting the transportation or distribution of energy sources transported via pipeline in interstate commerce.
Federal Authorization: Allows the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue federal authorizations for pipeline projects if the relevant permitting entity fails to complete a proceeding within one year.
Voluntary Safety Data Sharing: Establishes a confidential voluntary information-sharing system for operators to share safety data, lessons learned, and process improvements.
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