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| Oil, gas, and hazardous liquid
pipelines face many new safety requirements
A reprinted article by Brad Raffle and Joseph R. Herbster of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP.
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On Jan. 3, President Barack Obama signed into law the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011. This act, sponsored as H.R. 2845 by Representative Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), brings significant changes to the nation's pipeline safety law, imposing a variety of new design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance and emergency response requirements for the nation's 2.3 million miles of pipelines for natural gas, petroleum and hazardous liquids.
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