# 2025-10348: LNG Safety Rule Changes Get an Environmental Review

2025-10348, Pipeline Safety: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Amendments to Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities Rulemaking, is a Federal Register proposed rule from Transportation Department, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published 2025-06-06; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-29).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10348
- As of: 2026-10-29
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-10348
- Title: Pipeline Safety: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Amendments to Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities Rulemaking
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 24088
- Published: 2025-06-06
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-29

## In one line

LNG Safety Rule Changes Get an Environmental Review

## Summary

PHMSA is gearing up to update safety rules for liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities and will study how these changes might affect the environment. They’re asking everyone—from local communities to tribes—to share their thoughts by July 7, 2025. These updates aim to keep LNG operations safer and cleaner, with a draft plan coming soon for public review and feedback.

## Abstract

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, PHMSA intends to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) analyzing the potential environmental impacts of amendments to the pipeline safety regulations governing liquefied natural gas (LNG). This document initiates the process for determining the scope of considerations to be addressed in the EIS and for identifying any significant environmental matters related to the proposed action. PHMSA invites comments from Federal, State, and local agencies, Indian tribes, stakeholders, and the public in this scoping process to help identify any matters of environmental significance, as well as reasonable alternatives to be examined in the EIS.

## Effects PRIA read

- New rules for small‑scale LNG facilities: mixed, medium. PHMSA plans to implement new safety requirements for “permanent, small scale” liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities as directed by section 27 of the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016 (PIPES Act of 2016). If you operate a permanent small‑scale LNG facility,…
- Risk‑based rules for large‑scale LNG operations: mixed, medium. PHMSA intends to implement the congressional mandate in section 110 of the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2020 (PIPES Act of 2020) to adopt a risk‑based regulatory approach for operations and maintenance of large‑scale LNG facilities (other than peak‑shaving…
- 2023 NFPA 59A will be incorporated: mixed, medium. PHMSA proposes to revise 49 CFR part 193 to incorporate by reference provisions of the 2023 edition of NFPA Standard 59A, “Standard for the Production, Storage, and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas.” If your LNG facility is subject to part 193, the upcoming rulemaking would align federal requireme…
- EIS will study community health, safety, and local economy: benefit, medium. PHMSA will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) analyzing potential environmental and community effects of the proposed Part 193 amendments. The EIS will evaluate effects on populations near LNG facilities, public safety and human health from accidental releases, air pollutant emissions,…

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## Sources
- [2025-10348 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/06/2025-10348/pipeline-safety-notice-of-intent-to-prepare-an-environmental-impact-statement-for-the-amendments-to)
- [2025-10348 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-06/pdf/2025-10348.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10348 (as of 2026-10-29).