This afternoon, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee updated their website for tomorrow’s markup hearing. As I wrote yesterday, that hearing will consider HR 6856, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022. The update today included a link to a Committee Print of the bill and a list of amendments that are currently scheduled for consideration.
There is currently nothing in the bill relating to cybersecurity, or the Maritime Transportation Security Act, or chemical safety issues. Pipeline safety is obliquely addressed in §403, Providing requirements for vessels anchored in established anchorage grounds. It adds a new §70006, Anchorage grounds, to 46 USC. It would require the CG to “define and establish anchorage grounds in the navigable waters of the United States for vessels operating in such waters” {new §70006(a)(1)} as well as regulating such anchorage grounds. Factors to be consider in the definition would include “proximity to undersea pipelines and cables” {new §70006(a)(2)}.
None of the listed amendments are of any particular interest
here.
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