Keeping America's Pipelines Safe and Secure Key Issues for Congress

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--Officials and employees.

United States.

Pipelines.

Power resources--Law and legislation.

Power resources.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

Summary:

Discusses current safety record and security risks of U.S. pipeline industry, and reviews pipeline safety and security activities of the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), Transportation Security Administration, FERC, and NTSB. Examines key policy issues for Congressional consideration, including staffing resources, automatic shutoff valves for transmission pipelines, PHMSA penalties and pipeline safety enforcement, regulation of Canadian oil and tar sands crude pipelines, pipeline security regulations, and additional issues

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 11-R4-1536 in the 2011 issue

Notes:

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Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Apr. 2014). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC

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Other Format:

Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division. Keeping America's Pipelines Safe and Secure

Publisher Number:

CRS-2012-RSI-0089

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