§60136 Petroleum Product Transportation Capacity Study

Summary

The Secretaries of Transportation and Energy must regularly study how petroleum products move by pipeline inside the United States. The studies must find places where a sudden loss of a single pipeline could cause fuel shortages or big price spikes, and places where limited pipeline capacity or poor reliability now or soon could cause similar problems. If they find trouble spots, they can decide whether current rules are enough to reduce unplanned pipeline losses. They can also talk with other agencies and outside experts while doing the study. By June 1, 2008, they must send recommendations to reduce shortages and price disruptions to four congressional committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Transportation and Infrastructure; Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and Senate Energy and Natural Resources. They must send more reports later with results of new studies and any extra recommendations. "Petroleum product" means oil and related liquid fuels and feedstocks, like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, fuel oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gases, natural gas liquids, condensate, petrochemical feedstocks, and mixtures containing these.