II 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5782 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 6, 2006 
Received 
AN ACT 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for en-
hanced safety and environmental protection in pipeline 
transportation, to provide for enhanced reliability in the 
transportation of the Nation’s energy products by pipe-
line, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENT OF TITLE 49, 
UNITED STATES CODE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety 
Act of 2006’’. 
(b) AMENDMENT
OF TITLE 49, UNITED STATES 
CODE.—Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever 
in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other 
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to 
a section or other provision of title 49, United States 
Code. 
(c) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— 
Sec. 1. Short title; amendment of title 49, United States Code; table of con-
tents. 
Sec. 2. Pipeline safety and damage prevention. 
Sec. 3. Public education and awareness. 
Sec. 4. Low-stress pipelines. 
Sec. 5. Technical assistance grants. 
Sec. 6. Enforcement transparency. 
Sec. 7. Direct line sales. 
Sec. 8. Petroleum transportation capacity and regulatory adequacy study. 
Sec. 9. Distribution integrity management program rulemaking deadline. 
Sec. 10. Emergency waivers. 
Sec. 11. Restoration of operations. 
Sec. 12. Pipeline control room management. 
Sec. 13. Safety orders. 
Sec. 14. Integrity program enforcement. 
Sec. 15. Incident reporting. 
Sec. 16. Senior executive signature of integrity management program perform-
ance reports. 
Sec. 17. Cost recovery for design reviews. 
Sec. 18. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 19. Standards to implement NTSB recommendations. 
Sec. 20. Accident reporting form. 
Sec. 21. Leak detection technology study. 
Sec. 22. Corrosion control regulations. 
Sec. 23. Inspector General report. 
Sec. 24. Technical assistance program. 
Sec. 25. Natural gas pipelines. 
Sec. 26. Corrosion technology. 
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SEC. 2. PIPELINE SAFETY AND DAMAGE PREVENTION. 
(a) ONE CALL CIVIL ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) PROHIBITIONS.—Section 60114 is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) PROHIBITION APPLICABLE TO EXCAVATORS.— 
A person who engages in demolition, excavation, tun-
neling, or construction— 
‘‘(1) may not engage in a demolition, exca-
vation, tunneling, or construction activity in a State 
that has adopted a one-call notification system with-
out first using that system to establish the location 
of underground facilities in the demolition, exca-
vation, tunneling, or construction area; 
‘‘(2) may not engage in such demolition, exca-
vation, tunneling, or construction activity in dis-
regard of location information or markings estab-
lished by a pipeline facility operator pursuant to 
subsection (b); and 
‘‘(3) and who causes damage to a pipeline facil-
ity that may endanger life or cause serious bodily 
harm or damage to property— 
‘‘(A) may not fail to promptly report the 
damage to the owner or operator of the facility; 
and 
‘‘(B) if the damage results in the escape of 
any flammable, toxic, or corrosive gas or liquid, 
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may not fail to promptly report to other appro-
priate authorities by calling the 911 emergency 
telephone number. 
‘‘(e) PROHIBITION APPLICABLE TO UNDERGROUND 
PIPELINE FACILITY OWNERS
AND OPERATORS.—Any 
owner or operator of a pipeline facility who fails to respond 
to a location request in order to prevent damage to the 
pipeline facility or who fails to take reasonable steps, in 
response to such a request, to ensure accurate marking 
of the location of the pipeline facility in order to prevent 
damage to the pipeline facility shall be subject to a civil 
action under section 60120 or assessment of a civil penalty 
under section 60122. 
‘‘(f) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may not conduct 
an enforcement proceeding under subsection (d) for a vio-
lation within the boundaries of a State that has the au-
thority 
to 
impose 
penalties 
described 
in 
section 
60134(b)(7) against persons who violate that State’s dam-
age prevention laws, unless the Secretary has determined 
that the State’s enforcement is inadequate to protect safe-
ty, consistent with this chapter, and until the Secretary 
issues, through a rulemaking proceeding, the procedures 
for determining inadequate State enforcement of pen-
alties.’’. 
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(2) CIVIL
PENALTY.—Section 60122(a)(1) is 
amended by striking ‘‘60114(b)’’ and inserting 
‘‘60114(b), 60114(d),’’. 
(b) STATE DAMAGE PREVENTION PROGRAMS.— 
(1) CONTENTS
OF
CERTIFICATIONS.—Section 
60105(b)(4) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) is encouraging and promoting the estab-
lishment of a program designed to prevent damage 
by demolition, excavation, tunneling, or construction 
activity to the pipeline facilities to which the certifi-
cation applies that subjects persons who violate the 
applicable requirements of that program to civil pen-
alties and other enforcement actions that are sub-
stantially the same as are provided under this chap-
ter, 
and 
addresses 
the 
elements 
in 
section 
60134(b);’’. 
(2) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 601 is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 60134. State damage prevention programs 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make a grant 
to a State authority (including a municipality with respect 
to intrastate gas pipeline transportation) to assist in im-
proving the overall quality and effectiveness of a damage 
prevention program of the State authority under sub-
section (e) if the State authority— 
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