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PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3303
PRINTER'S NO. 3847
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2293
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY QUINN, COMITTA, FREEMAN, WILLIAMS, SAPPEY, ZABEL,
POLINCHOCK, ULLMAN, PASHINSKI, HOWARD, ROEBUCK AND
YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 18, 2020
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 26, 2020
AN ACT
Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in services and facilities, providing
for emergency response plans.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 1512. Emergency response plans.
(a) Plans.--A public utility that engages in the delivery of
natural gas liquids through a high consequence area in this
Commonwealth as defined in 49 CFR 192.903 (relating to what
definitions apply to this subpart?) shall make available UPON
WRITTEN REQUEST the public utility's emergency response plans to
all of the following:
(1) The secretary of the commission.
(2) The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
(3) The emergency management director of each county in
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this Commonwealth where the high consequence area is located.
(b) Confidential information.--
(1) If the emergency response plan under subsection (a)
contains confidential security information as defined in
section 2 of the act of November 29, 2006 (P.L.1435, No.156),
known as the Public Utility Confidential Security Information
Disclosure Protection Act, and the public utility has marked
the information in the plan as confidential security
information, each reviewer of the plan under subsection (a)
shall have the following duties:
(i) Comply with all requirements of the Public
Utility Confidential Security Information Disclosure
Protection Act to protect the information from
dissemination to the public.
(ii) Enter into a notarized agreement with the
public utility for the purpose of maintaining the
confidentiality requirements under this paragraph.
(2) A public utility shall provide a copy of a proposed
agreement under paragraph (1)(ii) to the commission before
making available an emergency response plan under subsection
(a) that contains confidential security information as
specified under paragraph (1).
(c) Penalties.--A public utility that fails to comply with
subsection (a) may be subject to an enforcement action by the
commission.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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