Natural Gas Group Challenges PHMSA Pipeline Safety Standards

The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America is seeking review of several standards within a Transportation Department final rule that made changes to federal pipeline safety regulations.

The trade association, which represents interstate natural gas pipeline companies, said Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration failed to offer a preliminary cost-benefit analysis for some of the new standards.

The agency also didn’t provide proper notice for two of the five contested standards as required under the Administrative Procedure Act, INGAA told the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in its principal appellate brief.

The association claimed PHMSA ...