Reauthorizing Pipeline Safety Law 'Important Step,' NARUC Says

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December 14, 2011

WASHINGTON—The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners issued the following statement after Congress passed the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011:

“Reauthorizing the pipeline safety law is an important step in helping provide State inspectors with the resources they need. Our State inspectors have been at this for decades and will continue working day and night in our oversight of pipeline operators. As the passage of this bill demonstrates, pipeline safety is a nonpartisan issue and a responsibility that falls on all of us. We applaud Congress for moving this legislation and encourage the President to sign it into law as soon as possible. State inspectors work tirelessly on this issue and this bill will provide necessary resources.”

--NARUC President David Wright of South Carolina

NARUC is a non-profit organization founded in 1889 whose members include the governmental agencies that are engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers in the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. NARUC's member agencies regulate telecommunications, energy, and water utilities. NARUC represents the interests of State public utility commissions before the three branches of the Federal government.

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