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 PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 108 STAT. 1307 (2) Not later than 2 years after the survey and assessment Regulations, are completed, the Secretary shall prescribe regulations on the circumstances under which an operator of a hazardous liquid pipeline facility must use an emergency flow restricting device or other procedure, system, or equipment described in paragraph (1) of this subsection on the facility. (k) PROHIBITION AGAINST Low INTERNAL STRESS EXCEPTION.— The Secretary may not provide an exception to this chapter for a hazardous liquid pipeline facility only because the facility operates at low internal stress. §60103. Standards for liqueHed natural gas pipeline facilities (a) LOCATION STANDARDS.The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe minimum safety standards for deciding on the location of a new liquefied natural gas pipeline facility. In prescribing a standard, the Secretary shall consider the— (1) kind and use of the facility; (2) existing and projected population and demographic characteristics of the location; (3) existing and proposed land use near the location; (4) natural physical aspects of the location; (5) medical, law enforcement, and fire prevention capabilities near the location that can cope with a risk caused by the facility; and (6) need to encourage remote siting. (b) DESIGN, INSTALLATION, CONSTRUCTION, INSPECTION, AND TESTING STANDARDS. —The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe minimum safety standards for designing, installing, constructing, initially inspecting, and initially testing a new liquefied natural gas pipeline facility. When prescribing a standard, the Secretary shall consider— (1) the characteristics of material to be used in constructing the facility and of alternative material; (2) design factors; (3) the characteristics of the liquefied natural gas to be stored or converted at, or transported by, the facility; and (4) the public safety factors of the design and of alternative designs, particularly the ability to prevent and contain a liquefied natural gas spill. (c) NONAPPLICATION.— (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a design, location, installation, construction, initial inspection, or initial testing standard prescribed under this chapter after March 1, 1978, does not apply to an existing liquefied natural gas pipeline facility if the standard is to be applied because of authority given— (A) under this chapter; or (B) under smother law, and the standard is not prescribed at the time the authority is applied. (2)(A) Any design, installation, construction, initial inspection, or initial testing standard prescribed under this chapter after March 1, 1978, may provide that the standard applies to any part of a replacement component of a liquefied naturaJ gas pipeline facility if the component or part is placed in service after the standard is prescribed and application of the standard— (i) does not make the component or part incompatible with other components or parts; or

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