Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
The bill directs the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to apply its April 8, 2022 final rule on valve installation and minimum rupture detection standards (87 Fed.
Reg. 20940) to Type A gas gathering lines.
It requires the PHMSA Administrator to take necessary actions to extend that rule’s requirements to those lines.
Narrow administrative mandate with modest fiscal impact but exposed to industry pushback and Senate procedural barriers; lacks built-in compromises or funding.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions as a concise administrative directive that identifies the responsible official and the specific final rule to be applied, but it lacks substantive procedural, timing, fiscal, and oversight details that would normally accompany an agency mandate of this nature.
Liberals stress environmental and community safety benefits
Liberals stress environmental and community safety benefits
Likely supportive because the bill extends safety and rupture-detection requirements to previously exempt gas gathering lines.
Views it as a modest regulatory fix that can reduce environmental harm and protect communities, while seeking stronger enforcement, funding, and equity protections.
May call for monitoring and timely implementation.
Cautiously favorable: sees the bill as a reasonable step to improve safety and regulatory clarity, but wants cost-benefit analysis, phased implementation, and clear compliance timelines.
Will weigh industry costs against accident-prevention gains and prefer mechanisms minimizing market disruption.
Likely skeptical or opposed due to extending federal regulation to more gas infrastructure.
Concerned about added costs, regulatory overreach, impacts on domestic energy producers, and burdens on small operators.
May prefer state-led approaches or flexible, risk-based standards instead.
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Narrow administrative mandate with modest fiscal impact but exposed to industry pushback and Senate procedural barriers; lacks built-in compromises or funding.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals stress environmental and community safety benefits
Narrow administrative mandate with modest fiscal impact but exposed to industry pushback and Senate procedural barriers; lacks built-in com…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions as a concise administrative directive that identifies the responsible official and the specific final rule to be applied, but it lacks substantive procedura…
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