US Department of the Interior and Department of Transportation Propose Rule for Oil and Gas Pipelines in Outer Continental Shelf

Summary

The US Department of the Interior and the Department of Transportation have proposed a rule to implement a provision of a 1996 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the regulation of oil and gas pipelines in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The proposed rule would cover pipelines where operating responsibility transfers from a producing operator to a transporting operator.