PHMSA’s Pipeline Safety Regulations (the PSR) apply to more than 3.3 million miles of pipelines used to transport natural gas, crude oil, refined petroleum products, carbon dioxide, and other gases and hazardous liquids to end users, and ensure the safety of nearly 400 underground natural gas storage (UNGS) facilities and 177 liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities.
Citing President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order on “Unleashing American Energy,” PHMSA solicited stakeholder feedback on, among other things: (1) identifying regulatory provisions and implementing guidance “that could impose an undue burden on identification, development, and use of domestic energy resources, or that are examples of government inefficiency insofar as they impose outsized compliance burdens for comparatively small safety benefits or limit technological innovation”; (2) the nature and magnitude of those burdens, as well as the compliance costs and implementation challenges; (3) potential amendments including rescission to those regulatory provisions; and (4) the incremental compliance costs and benefits anticipated from those amendments. PHMSA may also consider adopting a procedural requirement mandating periodic regulatory reviews (e.g., on a 5- or 3-year cycle) of the provisions in the PSR.