Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had received a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) from the DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) on “Pipeline Safety: Repair Criteria for Hazardous Liquid and Gas Transmission Pipelines”.
According to the Fall 2024 Unified Agenda entry for this rulemaking:
“PHMSA plans a notice of proposed rulemaking that would modify the thresholds at which operators would be required to repair hazardous liquid pipelines, commonly referred to as anomaly repair criteria,” on pipelines located in high-consequence areas (HCA) and could-affect HCAs,” and develop new repair criteria for hazardous liquid pipelines in non-HCAs. PHMSA is also examining changes to the repair criteria for gas transmission pipelines, including the anomaly thresholds for cracks, dents, and certain seam types.”
This rulemaking dates back to 2018 when it was split from the “Pipeline Safety: Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines” rulemaking before that final rule was published in 2019. It will be interesting to see how much the new administration has worked deregulation into this rulemaking in connection with the requirements of §3(a) of EO 14192:
“Unless prohibited
by law, whenever an executive department or agency (agency) publicly proposes for
notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new regulation, it shall identify
at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed.”
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