Pipeline Inspection Enforcement Act of 2014

Pipeline Inspection Enforcement Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to require the person purchasing or operating a gas or hazardous liquid pipeline facility to inspect it to confirm the pipeline's status as active or abandoned.

Directs the Secretary to require also, by regulation, that the regulatory authority responsible for inspections of the facility ensure that such an inspection is conducted. Applies this inspection requirement with respect to newly listed abandoned pipelines as well.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4687 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4687

To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the inspection of 
     pipeline facilities that are transferred by sale and pipeline 
         facilities that are abandoned, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2014

   Ms. Hahn 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 amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the inspection of 
     pipeline facilities that are transferred by sale and pipeline 
         facilities that are abandoned, 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 Inspection Enforcement Act 
of 2014''.

SEC. 2. PIPELINE INSPECTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 60108 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Inspection of Transferred Pipeline Facilities.--With respect 
to a pipeline facility that is transferred by sale, the Secretary shall 
require by regulation that--
            ``(1) not later than 180 days after the date of the sale, 
        the person purchasing the facility conduct an inspection of the 
        facility to confirm the status of any pipeline listed as active 
        or abandoned; and
            ``(2) the regulatory authority responsible for inspections 
        of the facility ensure that the inspection described in 
        paragraph (1) is conducted.
    ``(f) Inspection of Abandoned Pipeline Facilities.--With respect to 
a pipeline facility that newly lists a pipeline as abandoned, the 
Secretary shall require by regulation that the regulatory authority 
responsible for inspections of the facility, together with the person 
owning or operating the facility, conduct an inspection of the facility 
to confirm the status of the pipeline as abandoned.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to a pipeline facility that is transferred or listed as abandoned 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
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