Sets new pipeline safety rules covering enforcement hearings, special permits, excavation damage prevention, and civil penalty limits, and authorizes funding for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.

• Provides a formal hearing opportunity in certain enforcement cases where the proposed compliance cost or civil penalty is $125,000 or more, and requires the Transportation Secretary to publish hearing protocols within one year.
• Requires the Secretary to publish notice of special permit applications in the Federal Register and to complete each review within 18 months.
• Establishes a confidential voluntary information-sharing system for pipeline safety data, with nonpublic information exempt from FOIA and barred from use as evidence in enforcement actions.
• Requires each State to adopt leading practices for one-call notification programs that reduce excavation damage to underground pipelines.
• Authorizes $180,786,000 per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 from fees, plus additional trust fund amounts, and raises the civil penalty caps to $341,200 and $3,412,000.

• Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
• Energy Subcommittee
• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)

Transportation and Public Works