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Valve Safety Fairness Act of 2025
To require the Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to apply the final rule relating to valve installation and minimum rupture detection standards to Type A gas gathering lines, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill requires the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to apply an existing pipeline safety rule to Type A gas gathering lines. The rule, titled "Pipeline Safety: Requirement of Valve Installation and Minimum Rupture Detection Standards," was originally published in April 2022 but did not apply to Type A gas gathering lines. The bill directs the administration to extend this valve installation and rupture detection safety standard to these gathering lines.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Salud O. Carbajal’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $39,900
- TIGER MOON GROUP $13,200
- JENNINGS AERONAUTICS INC. $9,900
- WINDOW WORLD $9,900
- CHUMASH $8,400
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Actions (3)
- May 20, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. · house
- May 19, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
- May 19, 2025 Introduced in House
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Text versions (1)
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 19, 2025
Mr. Carbajal (for himself and Ms. Brownley) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to apply the final rule relating to valve installation and minimum rupture detection standards to Type A gas gathering lines, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Valve Safety Fairness Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF RULE TO TYPE A GAS GATHERING LINES.
The Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration shall take such actions as are necessary to apply the final rule of the Administration, titled “Pipeline Safety: Requirement of Valve Installation and Minimum Rupture Detection Standards” and published on April 8, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 20940), to Type A gas gathering lines. <all>
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