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 PUBLIC LAW 96-129—NOV. 30, 1979

93 STAT. 1003

INTERVENTION BY THE SECRETARY IN SAFETY PROCEEDINGS

SEC. 155. (a) Section 15, as redesignated, is amended by adding at Ante, p. 992. the end thereof the following new subsection: ^^ USC 1682. "(d) The Secretary may as a matter of right intervene or otherwise participate in any proceeding before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or any State agency, which involves safety requirements relating to LNG facilities. The Secretary shall comply with rules of procedure of general applicability governing the timing of intervention or participation in such proceeding or activity and, upon intervening or participating therein, shall comply with rules of procedure of general applicability governing the conduct thereof.". ft)) Section 15(a), as redesignated, is amended by inserting ", or any appropriate State agency," after "Commission". EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 156. The provisions of this subtitle, including amendments 49 USC 1671 made by such provisions, shall take effect on the date of the note, enactment of this Act. TITLE II—LIQUID PIPELINE SAFETY SHORT TITLE

Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979.

SEC. 201. This title may be cited as the "Hazardous Liquid Pipeline 49 USC 2001 Safety Act of 1979". note. DEFINITIONS

SEC. 202. As used in this title— 49 USC 2001. (1) "person" means any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association. State, municipality, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof; (2) "hazardous liquid" means— (A) petroleum or any petroleum product, and (B) any substance or material which is in liquid state (excluding liquefied natural gas) when transported by pipeline facilities and which, as determined by the Secretary, may pose an unreasonable risk to life or property when transported by pipeline facilities; (3) "transportation of hazardous liquids" means the movement of hazardous liquids by pipeline, or their storage incidental to such movement, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce; except that it shall not include any such movement through gathering lines in rural locations or onshore production, refining, or manufacturing facilities or storage or in-plant piping systems associated with any of such facilities; (4) "pipeline facilities" includes, without limitation, new and existing pipe, rights-of-way, and any equipment, facility, or building used or intended for use in the transportation of hazardous liquids but "rights-of-way" as used in this title does not authorize the Secretary to prescribe the location or the routing of any pipeline facility; (5) "interstate pipeline facilities" means the pipeline facilities used in the transportation of hazardous liquids in interstate or foreign commerce; (6) "intrastate pipeline facilities" means pipeline facilities which are not interstate pipeline facilities;

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