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114TH CONGRESS REPT. 114-807
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
PROTECTING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OF PIPELINES AND
ENHANCING SAFETY ACT OF 2016
NOVEMBER 14, 2016.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. SHUSTER, from the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4937]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom
was referred the bill (H.R. 4937) to amend title 49, United States
Code, to reauthorize pipeline safety programs and enhance pipeline
safety, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report
favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill
as amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose of Legislation ............................................................................................ 12
Background and Need for Legislation .................................................................... 12
H earings ................................................................................................................... 14
Legislative History and Consideration .................................................................. 14
C om m ittee V otes ...................................................................................................... 14
Com m ittee Oversight Findings ............................................................................... 18
New Budget Authority and Tax Expenditures ...................................................... 18
Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate .......................................................... 18
Perform ance Goals and Objectives ......................................................................... 23
Advisory of Earm arks .............................................................................................. 23
Duplication of Federal Program s ............................................................................ 23
Disclosure of Directed Rule M akings ..................................................................... 24
Federal M andate Statem ent ................................................................................... 24
Preem ption Clarification ......................................................................................... 24
Advisory Com m ittee Statem ent .............................................................................. 24
Applicability of Legislative Branch ........................................................................ 24
Section-by-Section Analysis of Legislation ............................................................ 25
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ..................................... 30
Com m ittee Correspondence .................................................................................... 55
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