Petroleum Pipeline Safety, Hearing, 89-1, May 18, 1965 |
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amended ANNEX Association of Oil authority and responsibility bill BRIDWELL Buckeye Pipe Line Bureau Chairman Commission to formulate Committee on Interstate common carrier Congress construction and operation Corps of Engineers crude oil D.C. DEAR dangerous articles dangerous cargoes dangerous commodities definition of carrier Department of Commerce DEVINE directing the Interstate Director Emergency Planning Emergency Transportation Explosives Act Federal law directing Federal Power Commission foreign commerce FRIEDEL gasoline HELMBRECHT highway inland waterway interagency study Interstate and Foreign Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission J. J. PICKLE JARMAN motor carriers movement of dangerous Office of Emergency Oil Pipe oil pipeline industry OREN HARRIS petroleum products PICKLE pipelines operating president recommendation refineries regulation of pipelines safety jurisdiction Secretary of Commerce Service Pipe Line STAGGERS statement statutes subcommittee tanks term carrier Thank tion title 18 towing vessels Transportation of Explosives U.S. Army U.S. Coast Guard uniform United States Code Washington WEBB
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Page 4 - That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act...
Page 14 - In part by an internal-combustion engine, except those engaged in fishing, oysterIng, clamming, crabbing, or any other branch of the fishery or kelp or sponge Industry.
Page 8 - States of explosives and other dangerous articles, including flammable liquids, flammable solids, oxidizing materials, corrosive liquids, compressed gases, and poisonous substances, which shall be binding upon all common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce which transport explosives or other dangerous articles by land, and upon all shippers making shipments of explosives or other dangerous articles via any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by land or water.
Page 14 - State goes further and attempts to impose particular standards as to structure, design, equipment, and operation which in the judgment of its authorities may be desirable but pass beyond what is plainly essential to safety and seaworthiness, the State will encounter the principle that such requirements, if imposed at all, must be through the action of Congress which can establish a uniform rule. Whether the State in a particular matter goes too far must be left to be determined when the precise question...
Page 5 - That concludes my prepared statement. I would be glad to answer any questions that you might have. Mr. STAGGERS. Thank you, Mr. Webb. That is one of the shortest and most precise statements I have heard before the committee. Do you know of any opposition to this bill ? Mr.
Page 14 - If, however, the state goes further and attempts to impose particular standards as to structure, design, equipment, and operation, which in the judgment of its authorities may be desirable, but pass beyond what is plainly essential to safety and seaworthiness, the state will encounter the principle that such requirements, if imposed at all, must be through the action of Congress which can establish a uniform rule.
Page 9 - ... liquids, flammable solids, oxidizing materials, corrosive liquids, compressed gases, and poisonous substances, which shall be binding upon all carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce which transport explosives or other dangerous articles by land, and upon all shippers making shipments of explosives or other dangerous articles via any carrier engaged In interstate or foreign commerce by land or water.
Page 22 - ... says that the farmers and ranchers will suffer loss many times greater than the annual appropriation. The secretary of agriculture of South Dakota has sent me a letter endorsing the good work out there and I would like to have that appear in the record, if I may, Mr.
Page 2 - The Interstate Commerce Commission shall formulate regulations for the safe transportation within the United States of explosives and other dangerous articles, including radioactive materials, etiologic agents, flammable liquids, flammable solids,. oxidizing materials, corrosive liquids, compressed gases, and poisonous substances...
Page 20 - The common carrier interstate oil pipelines network today consists of 157,000 miles of crude and petroleum products lines, serving every State in the Union except Hawaii. There are two principal classes of oil pipelines : crude lines, which transport oil from the oil wells to the refineries; and products lines, which transport light petroleum products, such as gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and heating oil from the refineries to distribution terminals. As common carriers these oil pipeline companies...