T&I Committee Leaders Introduce Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Reauthorization Bill

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"The bipartisan PIPES Act of 2023 will streamline bureaucratic red tape while authorizing important safety programs to ensure our nation's pipelines are the safest in the world. The PIPES Act will ensure that previous Congressional mandates are undertaken appropriately while adding important transparency provisions for the public. I am proud that our bipartisan bill requires PHMSA to complete a rulemaking to establish minimum safety standards for the transportation and temporary storage of CO2 in a gaseous state, a significant win for both the environment and the oil and gas industry. This is a critical step to streamline the red tape for liquefied natural gas coordination among federal agencies, and the bill imposes criminal penalties on bad actors interfering with the safe transportation of energy. Thank you, Chairman Graves, Ranking Member Larsen, and Ranking Member Payne, for introducing this important legislation, and I look forward to the President signing it into law."

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