The Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 was designed to examine and improve the state of pipeline safety regulation. The Act:
- Reauthorizes PHMSA's federal pipeline safety programs through fiscal year 2015
- Provides the regulatory certainty necessary for pipeline owners and operators to plan infrastructure investments and create jobs
- Improves pipeline transportation by strengthening enforcement of current laws and improving existing laws where necessary
- Ensures a balanced regulatory approach to improving safety that applies cost-benefit principles
- Protects and preserves Congressional authority by ensuring certain key rulemakings are not finalized until Congress has an opportunity to act
Federal Pipeline Safety Policy
Here we provide a brief primer on federal pipeline safety law, the language of the current law, access to federal pipeline safety regulations and enforcement information, and information about recent developments in pipeline safety regulation.
Here we provide a brief primer on federal pipeline safety law, the language of the current law, access to federal pipeline safety regulations and enforcement information, and information about recent developments in pipeline safety regulation.
- A brief history of federal pipeline safety laws
- Pipeline Safety Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011 (pdf)
- Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006 (pdf)
- Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 (pdf, 166kb)
- Federal pipeline safety regulations http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline/regs
- Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS)
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) http://www.ferc.gov/about/ferc-does.asp
- National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) http://www.ntsb.gov/about/office_rph.html
- Read the open recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to PHMSA by clicking here
