§1208 Pipeline Security and Incident Recovery Plan

Summary

Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with the Secretary of Transportation and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrator and following the August 9, 2006 MOU, the National Strategy for Transportation Security, and HSPD‑7, to create a pipeline security and incident 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—either during severe threat levels or when specific threat information exists. It must also include an incident recovery protocol made with pipeline and terminal operators to keep gas and hazardous liquids moving to essential markets and for public health or national defense after an incident. That protocol must cover restoring key services and allowing operators access to repair, replace, or bypass damaged pipeline parts. The plan must take into account steps already taken or planned by public and private groups and check how well those steps fit together. The Secretary must consult federal and state officials, pipeline operators, employee groups, emergency responders, and other relevant parties. The Secretary must send the plan and an estimate of public and private costs to the appropriate congressional committees no later than 2 years after August 3, 2007, and may submit both classified and redacted versions if needed.