‘‘(B) methods to measure the per-
formance of risk management plans;
‘‘(C) development and application
of new technologies;
‘‘(D) 
promotion 
of 
community
awareness;
‘‘(E) development of a model to
categorize the risks inherent to a se-
lected pipeline facility, considering
the location, volume, pressure, and
material transported or stored by the
facility;
‘‘(F) application of risk assess-
ment and risk management meth-
odologies suitable to the inherent
risks determined to exist by the
model developed under subparagraph
(E);
‘‘(G) development of project ele-
ments needed to ensure that owners
and operators participating in the
project demonstrate that risks are
being effectively managed and that
risk management plans carried out
under the project can be audited;
‘‘(H) a process for making amend-
ments, 
modifications, 
and 
adjust-
ments to approved risk management
plans under the project as agreed to
by owners and operators carrying out
such plans and the Secretary; and
‘‘(I) such other elements as the
Secretary and owners and operators
participating 
in 
the 
project 
may
agree would further the purposes of
this section.
‘‘(d) EMERGENCIES.—In the case of an
emergency, the Secretary may suspend or re-
voke the participation of an owner or opera-
tor in the demonstration project carried out
under this section.
‘‘(e) REPORT.—Not later than March 31,
1999, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress
a report on the results of the demonstration
project carried out under this section to-
gether with an evaluation of the project and
recommendations on whether or not the ap-
plications demonstrated under the project
should be made a permanent part of the Fed-
eral pipeline safety program.’’.
SEC. 7. INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE.
Section 60108 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1) by striking
‘‘transporting gas or hazardous liquid or’’
each place it appears;
(2) in subsection (b)(2) by striking the
second sentence;
(3) in the heading to subsection (c) by
striking ‘‘NAVIGABLE WATERS’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘OTHER WATERS’’; and
(4) by striking clause (ii) of sub-
section (c)(2)(A) and inserting the follow-
ing:
‘‘(ii) any other pipeline facility cross-
ing under, over, or through waters where
a substantial likelihood of commercial
navigation exists if the Secretary decides
that the location of the facility in those
waters could pose a hazard to navigation
or public safety.’’.
SEC. 8. HIGH-DENSITY POPULATION AREAS AND ENVIRON-
MENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS.
(a) 
IDENTIFICATION.—Section
60109(a)(1)(B)(i) is amended by striking ‘‘a
navigable waterway (as the Secretary defines
by regulation)’’ and inserting ‘‘waters where a
substantial likelihood of commercial naviga-
tion exists’’.
(b) UNUSUALLY SENSITIVE AREAS.—Section
60109(b) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) AREAS TO BE INCLUDED AS UNUSUALLY
SENSITIVE.—When describing areas that are
unusually sensitive to environmental damage
if there is a hazardous liquid pipeline acci-
dent, the Secretary shall consider areas
where a pipeline rupture would likely cause
permanent or long-term environmental dam-
age, including—
‘‘(1) locations near pipeline rights-of-
way that are critical to drinking water,
including intake locations for community
water systems and critical sole source aq-
uifer protection areas; and
‘‘(2) locations near pipeline rights-of-
way which have been identified as criti-
cal wetlands, riverine or estuarine sys-
tems, National Parks, wilderness areas,
wildlife preservation areas and refuges,
wild and scenic rivers, or critical habitat
areas for threatened and endangered spe-
cies.’’.