§1208 Pipeline Security and Incident Recovery Plan

Summary

Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with the Secretary of Transportation and the head of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, and following the Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding signed August 9, 2006, the National Strategy for Transportation Security, and Homeland Security Presidential Directive–7, to create a pipeline security and recovery plan. The plan must say when the Government will give extra security help to the most critical interstate and intrastate natural gas and hazardous liquid transmission pipelines (as identified under section 1207) when there is either a severe threat level or specific threat information. It must also include a recovery plan made with pipeline and terminal operators to keep fuel and gas moving to essential markets and for public health or national defense after an incident, and to restore services and allow access for repair, replacement, or bypass. The plan must consider current public and private efforts and how they fit together. The Secretary must talk with many parties, like transportation and pipeline officials, employee groups, emergency responders, state safety agencies, and public safety officials. The Secretary must send the plan and an estimate of public and private costs to the proper congressional committees no later than 2 years after August 3, 2007, and may send classified and redacted versions if needed.