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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-633
OFFSHORE PIPELINE SAFETY ACT
DECEMBER 14, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2643]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2643) to require the Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement to further develop, finalize, and implement updated
regulations for offshore oil and gas pipelines to address long-stand-
ing limitations regarding its ability to ensure active pipeline integ-
rity and address safety and environmental risks associated with de-
commissioning, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Offshore Pipeline Safety Act.
SEC. 2. FINALIZATION OF REGULATIONS RELATED TO OFFSHORE PIPELINES.
Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environ-
mental Enforcement, shall issue final regulations relating to Oil and Gas and Sul-
phur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf-Pipelines and Pipeline Rights-of-
Way (72 Fed. Reg. 56,442 (Oct. 3, 2007)). Such regulations shall require owners of
oil and gas pipelines subject to such regulations-
(1) to provide for internal and external inspections of pipelines by a third-
party no less frequently than every two years, unless the Director of the Bureau
determines that any such inspection is not required; and
(2) to equip such pipelines with a leak detection system or device that pro-
vides continuous volumetric comparison between the pipeline's product input
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