§60140 Cover Over Buried Pipelines

Summary

The Secretary of Transportation must study accidents where hazardous liquid pipelines cross inland waters at least 100 feet wide, measured from high water mark to high water mark, to see if how deep the pipe was buried helped cause any leaks. The Secretary must send a report on that study to the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and on Energy and Commerce, and to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation within 1 year after the law is passed. If the study shows burial depth helped cause releases, the Secretary must, within 1 year after the study ends, review whether current burial-depth rules are enough. If the rules are not enough, the Secretary must create legislative recommendations to make these crossings safer, consider the factors in section 60102(b)(2), and send those recommendations to the same congressional committees.