Our Number One Priority: Pipeline Safety

AGA member utilities are the “face of the gas industry,” embedded in the communities they serve, and interact daily with customers and the state regulators who oversee pipeline safety locally. [...] Pipeline Safety Reauthorization Priorities AGA and its members support fact-based, reasonable, flexible, and practicable updates to pipeline safety regulation that build upon lessons learned and evolving improvements to pipeline safety and related programs and technology. [...] These activities are not only hazardous to the safety and property of the public and member company employees, they threaten an LDC’s ability to deliver natural gas to thousands of homes, hospitals, schools, government and military facilities, and other critical customers. [...] Comments on the Pipeline Safety, Modernization, and Expansion Act of 2023 (Draft) AGA generally supports the concepts outlined in the draft Pipeline Safety, Modernization, and Expansion Act of 2023, where applicable to gas distribution and intrastate pipeline companies. [...] As pipeline safety reauthorization legislation is drafted this year, AGA encourages Congress to work in a bipartisan fashion to move reasonable and consensus changes to pipeline safety law and regulation, support PHMSA’s primary role as pipeline safety regulator, and recognize the great strides in pipeline safety engineering and operating practices that pipeline companies are putting into practice.