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2005 SESSION

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SB 987 Gas pipeline safety; regulation by State Corporation Commission.

Introduced by: John C. Watkins | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Gas pipeline safety. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to act for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to conduct safety inspections pursuant to federal pipeline safety laws with respect to municipal gas systems. Such authority shall be exercised in a manner that is not inconsistent with federal law. An exit interview will be conducted after each inspection. The Commission is not authorized to impose civil penalties or fines on any locality, or to regulate the rates, charges, services, facilities, or service territory of any locality providing gas service, except as otherwise provided. As the Commission's pipeline safety program currently covers investor-owned and master-metered systems and intrastate hazardous liquid pipelines, this measure gives the Commission safety jurisdiction over all intrastate gas and hazardous liquid pipeline facilities. The measure also relocates provisions currently located in other Code sections, that address violations of pipeline safety codes and pipelines that transport landfill gas, into one Code section.


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