Title: A bill to require the Secretary of Transportation to post a copy of the most recent response plan for each onshore oil pipeline on a publicly accessible website.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT)	to publish a copy of the most recent pipeline response plan for each onshore oil pipeline on a public website maintained by DOT.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1213 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1213

 To require the Secretary of Transportation to post a copy of the most 
   recent response plan for each onshore oil pipeline on a publicly 
                          accessible website.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 24, 2017

  Mr. Peters (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Transportation to post a copy of the most 
   recent response plan for each onshore oil pipeline on a publicly 
                          accessible website.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PIPELINE FACILITY RESPONSE PLANS.

    Section 60138 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3);
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) subject to subsection (b), post a copy of the most 
        recent response plan on a publicly accessible website 
        maintained by the Department of Transportation; and''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (3), as redesignated, by striking 
                ``provide upon written request to a person a copy of 
                the plan'' and all that follows and inserting ``subject 
                to subsection (b), provide to a person, upon written 
                request, a copy of the most recent response plan.'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Exclusions.--The Secretary may exclude from the plan posted 
or provided under paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a), as the 
Secretary determines appropriate--
            ``(1) proprietary information;
            ``(2) security-sensitive information, including information 
        described in section 1520.5(a) of title 49, Code of Federal 
        Regulations;
            ``(3) specific response resources and tactical resource 
        deployment plans; and
            ``(4) the specific amount and location of worst case 
        discharges (as defined in part 194 of title 49, Code of Federal 
        Regulations), including the process by which an owner or 
        operator determines the worst case discharge.''.
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