A public meeting to discuss a proposed rule on pipeline leak detection and repair has been scheduled for March 25-29, 2024 by the federal advisory panel that develops recommendations on standards for the transportation of gas by pipeline, but federal officials have already met industrial and environment groups, including a group that wants the rule to be expanded to monitor for gases currently not in the rule.
The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee, also known as the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC), says it will discuss the proposed rule “Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair” that was issued May 18, 2023. The proposed rule seeks to amend congressional mandates in the “Protecting Our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2020” (S. Rept. 116-217), according to GPAC.