Title: Pipeline Seismic Safety Study Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Pipeline Seismic Safety Study Act
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to contract with the National Academy of Sciences for a study evaluating federal requirements for pipeline facilities concerning seismicity, erosion, and other dynamic geological conditions. DOT must consult with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the study.


[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4261 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4261

 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement 
with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study on seismicity, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 2021

Mr. Garamendi introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement 
with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study on seismicity, 
                        and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pipeline Seismic Safety Study Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES STUDY ON SEISMICITY.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, shall enter into an agreement 
with the National Academy of Sciences under which the National Academy 
of Sciences shall prepare a report containing--
            (1) the results of a study that--
                    (A) evaluates the current Federal requirements for 
                pipeline facility design, siting, construction, 
                operation and maintenance, and integrity management, 
                relating to seismicity, land subsidence, landslides, 
                slope instability, frost heave, soil settlement, 
                erosion, and other dynamic geologic conditions that may 
                pose a safety risk;
                    (B) identifies any discrepancy in such requirements 
                that apply to operators of gas pipeline facilities and 
                hazardous liquid pipeline facilities; and
                    (C) identifies any deficiencies in industry 
                practices related to such requirements; and
            (2) any recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences 
        based on such results.
    (b) Report to Congress.--Upon completion of the report prepared 
pursuant to subsection (a), the National Academy of Sciences shall 
submit to the Secretary of Transportation, the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate 
the report.
    (c) Pipeline Facilities.--In this Act, the term ``pipeline 
facility'' has the meaning given that term in section 60101 of title 
49, United States Code.
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