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49 U.S.C. § 60103 — Standards for liquefied natural gas pipeline facilities

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49 U.S.C. § 60103 — Standards for liquefied natural gas pipeline facilities

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**(a) Location Standards.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe minimum safety standards for deciding on the location of a new liquefied natural gas pipeline facility. In prescribing a standard, the Secretary shall consider the— (1) kind and use of the facility; (2) existing and projected population and demographic characteristics of the location; (3) existing and proposed land use near the location; (4) natural physical aspects of the location; (5) medical, law enforcement, and fire prevention capabilities near the location that can cope with a risk caused by the facility; (6) need to encourage remote siting; and (7) national security. **(b) Design, Installation, Construction, Inspection, and Testing Standards.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe minimum safety standards for designing, installing, constructing, initially inspecting, and initially testing a new liquefied natural gas pipeline facility. When prescribing a standard, the Secretary shall consider— (1) the characteristics of material to be used in constructing the facility and of alternative material; (2) design factors; (3) the characteristics of the liquefied natural gas to be stored or converted at, or transported by, the facility; and (4) the public safety factors of the design and of alternative designs, particularly the ability to prevent and contain a liquefied natural gas spill. **(c) Nonapplication.—** (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a design, location, installation, construction, initial inspection, or initial testing standard prescribed under this chapter after March 1, 1978, does not apply to an existing liquefied natural gas pipeline facility if the standard is to be applied because of authority given— (A) under this chapter; or (B) under another law, and the standard is not prescribed at the time the authority is applied. (2) (A) Any design, installation, construction, initial inspection, or initial testing standard prescribed under this chapter after March 1, 1978, may provide that the standard applies to any part of a replacement component of a liquefied natural gas pipeline facility if the component or part is placed in service after the standard is prescribed and application of the standard— (i) does not make the component or part incompatible with other components or parts; or (ii) is not impracticable otherwise. (B) Any location standard prescribed under this chapter after March 1, 1978, does not apply to any part of a replacement component of an existing liquefied natural gas pipeline facility. (3) A design, installation, construction, initial inspection, or initial testing standard does not apply to a liquefied natural gas pipeline facility existing when the standard is adopted. **(d) Operation and Maintenance Standards.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe minimum operating and maintenance standards for a liquefied natural gas pipeline facility. In prescribing a standard, the Secretary shall consider— (1) the conditions, features, and type of equipment and structures that make up or are used in connection with the facility; (2) the fire prevention and containment equipment at the facility; (3) security measures to prevent an intentional act that could cause a liquefied natural gas accident; (4) maintenance procedures and equipment; (5) the training of personnel in matters specified by this subsection; and (6) other factors and conditions related to the safe handling of liquefied natural gas. **(e) Effective Dates.—** A standard prescribed under this section is effective on the 30th day after the Secretary of Transportation prescribes the standard. However, the Secretary for good cause may prescribe a different effective date when required because of the time reasonably necessary to comply with the standard. The different date must be specified in the regulation prescribing the standard. **(f) Contingency Plans.—** A new liquefied natural gas pipeline facility may be operated only after the operator submits an adequate contingency plan that states the action to be taken if a liquefied natural gas accident occurs. The Secretary of Energy or appropriate State or local authority shall decide if the plan is adequate. **(g) Effect on Other Standards.—** This section does not preclude applying a standard prescribed under [section 60102 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section60102&num=0&edition=prelim) to a gas pipeline facility (except a liquefied natural gas pipeline facility) associated with a liquefied natural gas pipeline facility.

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49 U.S.C. § 60102 — Purpose and general authority

**(a) Purpose and Minimum Safety Standards.—** (1) **Purpose.—** — The purpose of this chapter is to provide adequate protection against risks to life and property posed by pipeline transportation and pipeline facilities by improving the regulatory and enforcement authority of the Secretary of Transportation. (2) **Minimum safety standards.—** — The Secretary shall prescribe minimum safety standards for pipeline transportation and for pipeline facilities. The standards— (A) apply to any or all of the owners or operators of pipeline facilities; (B) may apply to the design, installation, inspection, emergency plans and procedures, testing, construction, extension, operation, replacement, and maintenance of pipeline facilities; and (C) shall include a requirement that all individuals who operate and maintain pipeline facilities shall be qualified to operate and maintain the pipeline facilities. (3) **Qualifications of pipeline operators.—** — The qualifications applicable to an individual who operates and maintains a pipeline facility shall address the ability to recognize and react appropriately to abnormal operating conditions that may indicate a dangerous situation or a condition exceeding design limits. The operator of a pipeline facility shall ensure that employees who operate and maintain the facility are qualified to operate and maintain the pipeline facilities. **(b) Practicability and Safety Needs Standards.—** (1) **In general.—** — A standard prescribed under subsection (a) shall be— (A) practicable; and (B) designed to meet the need for— (i) gas pipeline safety, or safely transporting hazardous liquids, as appropriate; and (ii) protecting the environment. (2) **Factors for consideration.—** — When prescribing any standard under th

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49 U.S.C. § 60109 — High-density population areas and environmentally sensitive areas

**(a) Identification Requirements.—** Not later than October 24, 1994, the Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe standards that— (1) establish criteria for identifying— (A) by operators of gas pipeline facilities, each gas pipeline facility (except a natural gas distribution line) located in a high-density population area; and (B) by operators of hazardous liquid pipeline facilities and gathering lines— (i) each hazardous liquid pipeline facility, whether otherwise subject to this chapter, that crosses waters where a substantial likelihood of commercial navigation exists or that is located in an area described in the criteria as a high-density population area; and (ii) each hazardous liquid pipeline facility and gathering line, whether otherwise subject to this chapter, located in an area that the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, describes as unusually sensitive to environmental damage if there is a hazardous liquid pipeline accident; and (2) provide that the identification be carried out through the inventory required under [section 60102(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section60102/e&num=0&edition=prelim). **(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 accident, the Secretary shall consider areas where a pipeline rupture would likely cause permanent or long-term environmental damage, 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 aquifer protection areas; and (2) locations near pipeline righ

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49 U.S.C. § 60105 — State pipeline safety program certifications

**(a) General Requirements and Submission.—** Except as provided in this section and sections 60114 and 60121 of this title, the Secretary of Transportation may not prescribe or enforce safety standards and practices for an intrastate pipeline facility or intrastate pipeline transportation to the extent that the safety standards and practices are regulated by a State authority (including a municipality if the standards and practices apply to intrastate gas pipeline transportation) that submits to the Secretary annually a certification for the facilities and transportation that complies with subsections (b) and (c) of this section. **(b) Contents.—** Each certification submitted under subsection (a) of this section shall state that the State authority— (1) has regulatory jurisdiction over the standards and practices to which the certification applies; (2) has adopted, by the date of certification, each applicable standard prescribed under this chapter or, if a standard under this chapter was prescribed not later than 120 days before certification, is taking steps to adopt that standard; (3) is enforcing each adopted standard through ways that include inspections conducted by State employees meeting the qualifications the Secretary prescribes under [section 60107(d)(1)(C) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section60107/d/1/C&num=0&edition=prelim); (4) is encouraging and promoting the establishment of a program designed to prevent damage by demolition, excavation, tunneling, or construction activity to the pipeline facilities to which the certification applies that subjects persons who violate the applicable requirements of that program to civil penalties and other enforcement actions that are substantially the same as

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15 U.S.C. § 717b — Exportation or importation of natural gas; LNG terminals

**(a) Mandatory authorization order** After six months from June 21, 1938, no person shall export any natural gas from the United States to a foreign country or import any natural gas from a foreign country without first having secured an order of the Commission authorizing it to do so. The Commission shall issue such order upon application, unless, after opportunity for hearing, it finds that the proposed exportation or importation will not be consistent with the public interest. The Commission may by its order grant such application, in whole or in part, with such modification and upon such terms and conditions as the Commission may find necessary or appropriate, and may from time to time, after opportunity for hearing, and for good cause shown, make such supplemental order in the premises as it may find necessary or appropriate. **(b) Free trade agreements** With respect to natural gas which is imported into the United States from a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas, and with respect to liquefied natural gas— (1) the importation of such natural gas shall be treated as a “first sale” within the meaning of [section 3301(21) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3301/21&num=0&edition=prelim); and (2) the Commission shall not, on the basis of national origin, treat any such imported natural gas on an unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential basis. **(c) Expedited application and approval process** For purposes of subsection (a), the importation of the natural gas referred to in subsection (b), or the exportation of natural gas to a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treatme

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49 U.S.C. § 60103 — Standards for liquefied natural gas pipe-

Page 1748 TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION § 60103 ‘‘(2) Implementation of a standard for pipeline com- panies to review and audit alarms on monitoring equipment. ‘‘(3) Implementation of standards for pipeline con- troller training that include simulator or noncomput- erized simulations for controller recognition of ab- normal pipeline operating conditions, in particular, leak events.’’ STATE PIPELINE SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEES Pub. L. 107–355, § 24, Dec. 17, 2002, 116 Stat. 3011, pro- vided that: ‘‘Within 90 days after receiving rec- ommendations for improvements to pipeline safety from an advisory committee appointed by the Governor of any State, the Secretary of Transportation shall re- spond in writing to the committee setting forth what action, if any, the Secretary will take on those rec- ommendations and the Secretary’s reasons for acting or not acting upon any of the recommendations.’’ § 60103. Standards for liquefied natural gas pipe- line facilities (a) LOCATION STANDARDS.—The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe minimum safety standards for deciding on the location of a new liquefied natural gas pipeline facility. In pre- scribing a standard, the Secretary shall consider the— (1) kind and use of the facility; (2) existing and projected population and de- mographic characteristics of the location; (3) existing and proposed land use near the location; (4) natural physical aspects of the location; (5) medical, law enforcement, and fire pre- vention capabilities near the location that can cope with a risk caused by the facility; (6) need to encourage remote siting; and (7) national security. (b) DESIGN, INSTALLATION, CONSTRUCTION, IN- SPECTION, AND TESTING STANDARDS.—The Sec- retary of Transportation shall prescribe min- imum safety standards f

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