Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

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The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations to ensure the safe, reliable, and environmentally sound transportation of energy products and other hazardous materials.

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instanceOf United States federal agency
transportation safety agency
abbreviation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration self-linksurface differs
surface form: PHMSA
collaboratesWith Federal Railroad Administration
National Transportation Safety Board
state pipeline safety agencies
conducts accident investigations involving hazardous materials transportation
accident investigations involving pipelines
hazardous materials transportation inspections
pipeline inspections
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dateFormed 2005
develops hazardous materials transportation regulations
pipeline safety regulations
enforces hazardous materials transportation regulations
pipeline safety regulations
focusesOn risk-based safety management for hazardous materials transportation
risk-based safety management for pipelines
formedFrom Research and Special Programs Administration
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
implements federal hazardous materials transportation law
federal pipeline safety statutes
issues Hazardous Materials Regulations
pipeline safety standards
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States
legalBasis Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act
mission to ensure safe, reliable, and environmentally sound transportation of energy products
to protect people and the environment from the risks of hazardous materials transportation
oversees interstate hazardous liquid pipelines
interstate natural gas pipelines
liquefied natural gas facilities (for safety)
underground natural gas storage facilities (for safety)
parentAgency United States Department of Transportation
partOf United States Department of Transportation surface transportation safety framework
provides grants to states for hazardous materials safety programs
grants to states for pipeline safety programs
regulates transportation of hazardous materials by air
transportation of hazardous materials by highway
transportation of hazardous materials by pipeline
transportation of hazardous materials by rail
responsibleFor hazardous materials transportation safety regulation in the United States
pipeline safety regulation in the United States
safety of energy product transportation
safety of hazardous materials transportation by all modes except bulk marine
supervises Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration self-linksurface differs
surface form: Office of Hazardous Materials Safety

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration self-linksurface differs
surface form: Office of Pipeline Safety
website https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/

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Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration abbreviation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: PHMSA
Hazardous Materials Regulations administeredBy Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Title 49 of the United States Code administeredBy Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
National Transportation Safety Board collaboratesWith Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
FRA coordinatesWith Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
subject surface form: Federal Railroad Administration
Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act createdAgencyAbbreviation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
this entity surface form: PHMSA
Research and Special Programs Administration dissolvedInto Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Hazardous Materials Regulations enforcedBy Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act establishedAgency Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
SecDOT oversees Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
DOT oversees Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
subject surface form: United States Department of Transportation
United States Secretary of Transportation oversees Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
United States transportation system regulatedBy Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Research and Special Programs Administration successor Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Research and Special Programs Administration successor Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
this entity surface form: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration supervises Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Office of Pipeline Safety
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration supervises Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act transferredFunctionsTo Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration