White House readies its own leak notification rule, panel told

The Obama administration not only supports a US House bill that would require operators of a leaking oil or gas pipeline to notify authorities within 1 hr, but also is preparing to propose the requirement as a regulation, the top federal pipeline regulator told a US House subcommittee on Sept. 23.

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