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EMD-79-B1 1 (1979-03-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaywl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF T14E UNITED STATES WASHINGMN. O.C. 30411 B6MAR Z 6 1979 The Honorable Howard W. Cannon Chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: --- By I tter of February 23, 1979, you requested that we eSo .411J 96th Congress which, if enacted, would be A lted as the Pipeline Safety ct of 1979. In general, we believe S.411 is a good bill. We approve of its provisions to strengthen and clarify t Department of Transportation's presentu thority in t afety );egulation of patural as 2ipelinetransportatio and to povide major new and compre- gensive authority in t e safety regulation of hazardous liq- uid pipeline transportation. The patterning of Title II after the Natural Gas Pipe- line Safety Act, with the amendments in Title I, is a logical step in establishing a comprehensive and effective Federal pipeline safety program. The provisions that we consider par- ticularly important and that we believe should be incorporated into any resulting legislation are listed in Addendum I. Ad- dendum II lists a few additional changes to these titles that you may wish to consider. Although we are in basic agreement with S.411 as it re- lates to pipeline transportation, we recommend that the Com- mittee add a new Title III which could be entitled the Large Hazardous Commodities Storage Facility Safety Act of 1979. We believe that large storage facilities should be covered in a separate title because of the risks to the public associated with having large quantities of hazardous materials in one place. Because these risks are much greater than those posed by pipelines, large storage facilities should be required to meet a higher standard of liability for damages and financial responsibility for payment of claims related to these damages. We believe that the Federal government should regulate every facility, whether or not connected to pipelines, which stores large quantities of hazardous commodities at one loca- tion, in or affecting interstate commerce. There are large facilities storing hazardous liquids (as defined in Title II) Ii 1096! ~dY 7~EMD-79-B~4 108965J

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