# 119-s-2971: Plant Safety Authorities Coordination Act of 2025

119-s-2971, Plant Safety Authorities Coordination Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2971
- Congress: 119
- Title: Plant Safety Authorities Coordination Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-10-03
- Sponsor: Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## Summary

**Narrows the federal definition of 'transporting gas'.** This bill would redraw what counts as transporting gas in title 49 by carving out certain rural gathering activities and specific plant piping and short transfer lines. - Plant owners and operators: Gas moved for plant use as fuel or feedstock through in-plant piping located entirely on plant grounds would be excluded. Transfer piping that runs less than 1 mile offsite would also be excluded. - Rural gatherers: Gathering gas in rural areas outside populated areas that the Secretary has not designated as nonrural would be excluded from the transporting gas definition, except when it moves through regulated gathering lines. - Federal regulators and pipeline scope: The bill would shrink which flows and systems are treated as "transporting gas" under title 49, changing which pipelines and plant systems fall under federal transport rules.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Fewer gas rules for plant owners: benefit, low. This bill would exclude some on-site gas moves from the federal "transporting gas" definition. It would also exclude gathering in rural areas outside places the Secretary designates as nonrural. That rural exclusion would not apply to gathering done through regulated gathering lines. It would exclu…

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- 119-s-3923: Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026
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- 119-s-3597: National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026
- 119-s-2142: GOLDEN DOME Act of 2025
- 119-s-306: Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-2971 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2971)

## Related
- [119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4744)
- [119-s-3923: Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3923)
- [119-s-1462: Fix Our Forests Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1462)
- [119-s-3597: National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3597)
- [119-s-2142: GOLDEN DOME Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2142)
- [119-s-306: Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-306)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2971 (as of 2026-09-10).