Questions?
Federal/State Relation
Responsibilities & Duties
Special Permits
Organizational Structure
- Federal authority under 49 601.05-06
- States can obtain certificates or agreements to assume safety authority over intrastate pipelines
- Grants
- Prepare public and first responders for incidents
- Lead 2 national safety programs
- Establish national policy
- Set and enforce standards
- Educate and conduct research
- 49 601.18(c) gives ability to grant special permits
- Special permits allows companies to preform a function not authorized or not perform a function that is required
- Public involvement
- State permits
Judicial Review
- Title 49
- 601.19 and 51.27
- U.S. Court of Appeal
- Reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court
- Time limits:
- Pipelines
- 89 days
- 60 days
- HazMat
- 60 days
- Prior Objection Requirement
Duties and Powers
- Administrator carries out the duties and powers related to pipeline and hazmat transportation and safety vested in the Secretary by Chapters 51, 57, 61, 601 and 603 of title 49 of the United States Code
- Other duties or powers prescribed by the Secretary
Task Force on Natural Gas Storage Safety
Conclusion
What is it?
- A DOT administration
- Focused solely on safety through the elimination of transportation-related deaths and injuries
- Oversees the safety of >800,000 daily shipments of hazardous materials in the US and 64% of the nation's energy that is transported by pipelines
References
Established in 2004 under the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act of 2004
Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act of 2004
- http://energylegalblog.com/blog/2016/10/20/federal-report-identifies-new-criteria-underground-gas-storage-facilities
- http://www.energypolicyroadmap.com/administration-establishes-interagency-task-force-on-natural-gas-storage-safety/
- http://phmsa.dot.gov/portal/site/PHMSA/menuitem.c078b89b7940f5f756f2cee62d9c8789/?vgnextoid=921631c438477410VgnVCM100000d2c97898RCRD&vgnextchannel=921631c438477410VgnVCM100000d2c97898RCRD&vgnextfmt=print
- http://phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/DownloadableFiles/Files/2016_State_Guidelines_Final_Version_2015_12_31_with_Appendices.pdf
- http://phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/DownloadableFiles/Files/StateProgramFiles/NY_2013_NG_Program_Evaluation.pdf
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/5127
- http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/DownloadableFiles/Motion%20to%20Dismiss%20Granted.pdf
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1254
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/60119
- http://phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/approvals-permits
- http://phmsa.dot.gov/special-permits-approvals
- http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/DownloadableFiles/Files/Pipeline/PHMSA-2016-0039_Energy_XXI_Pipeline_LLC_LOD_for_SP.pdf
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/60118
- http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/pipa/landuseplanning.htm
- http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/DownloadableFiles/PHMSA%20Strategic%20Plan%20Final%208%203%2012.pdf
- https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/pipeline-and-hazardous-materials-safety-administration
- https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action?collectionCode=USCODE&searchPath=Title+49%2FSubtitle+III%2FCHAPTER+51&granuleId=USCODE-2008-title49-subtitleIII-chap61&packageId=USCODE-2008-title49&oldPath=Title+49%2FSubtitle+III%2FCHAPTER+61&fromPageDetails=true&collapse=true&ycord=2468
- https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-108publ426/html/PLAW-108publ426.htm
- https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2008-title49/html/USCODE-2008-title49-subtitleIII-chap51.htm, 57, 61
Abolished the Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) and certain duties were transferred to the PHMSA and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration