Senate Passes Reauthorization Bill for PHMSA; House Begins Consideration

The authors of this article discuss the U.S. Senate’s passing of the Securing America’s Future Energy: Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act, reauthorizing the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”), the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s legislation to reauthorize the PHMSA, and PHMSA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, that would significantly broaden the agency’s regulatory scope with respect to gas pipelines.

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