Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2508 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2508

To give effect to a final rule of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 
   Safety Administration relating to gas pipeline leak detection and 
                    repair, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2025

 Mr. Lujan (for himself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Whitehouse, 
 Mr. Bennet, Mr. Fetterman, and Mr. Heinrich) 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 give effect to a final rule of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 
   Safety Administration relating to gas pipeline leak detection and 
                    repair, 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 ``Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and 
Repair Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. GAS PIPELINE LEAK DETECTION AND REPAIR.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
final rule of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration issued under section 60102(q) of title 49, United States 
Code, on January 17, 2025, relating to ``Pipeline Safety: Gas Pipeline 
Leak Detection and Repair'' (Docket No. PHMSA-2021-0039; RIN 2137-AF51) 
shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
    (b) Subsequent Updates.--Nothing in this section prohibits the 
Secretary from updating any regulation promulgated or revised under 
this section or section 60102(q) of title 49, United States Code, to 
provide protections or standards that are more stringent than those 
provided by the rule made effective by subsection (a) or any other rule 
in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act.
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