Sec. 10. INFORMATION-SHARING SYSTEM
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## SEC. 10 INFORMATION-SHARING SYSTEM **[**[49 U.S.C. 60108 note](/us/usc/t49/s60108)**]** ###
(a)In General Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall convene a working group to consider the development of a voluntary information-sharing system to encourage collaborative efforts to improve inspection information feedback and information sharing with the purpose of improving gas transmission and hazardous liquid pipeline facility integrity risk analysis. ###
(b)Membership The working group convened pursuant to subsection
(a)shall include representatives from— ####
(1)the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration; ####
(2)industry stakeholders, including operators of pipeline facilities, inspection technology, coating, and cathodic protection vendors, and pipeline inspection organizations; ####
(3)safety advocacy groups; ####
(4)research institutions; ####
(5)State public utility commissions or State officials responsible for pipeline safety oversight; ####
(6)State pipeline safety inspectors; ####
(7)labor representatives; and ####
(8)other entities, as determined appropriate by the Secretary. ###
(c)Considerations The working group convened pursuant to subsection
(a)shall consider and provide recommendations to the Secretary on— ####
(1)the need for, and the identification of, a system to ensure that dig verification data are shared with in-line inspection operators to the extent consistent with the need to maintain proprietary and security-sensitive data in a confidential manner to improve pipeline safety and inspection technology; ####
(2)ways to encourage the exchange of pipeline inspection information and the development of advanced pipeline inspection technologies and enhanced risk analysis; ####
(3)opportunities to share data, including dig verification data between operators of pipeline facilities and in-line inspector vendors to expand knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of in-line inspection technology and methodologies; ####
(4)options to create a secure system that protects proprietary data while encouraging the exchange of pipeline inspection information and the development of advanced pipeline inspection technologies and enhanced risk analysis; ####
(5)means and best practices for the protection of safety- and security-sensitive information and proprietary information; and ####
(6)regulatory, funding, and legal barriers to sharing the information described in paragraphs
(1)through (4). ###
(d)Publication The Secretary shall publish the recommendations provided under subsection
(c)on a publicly available Web site of the Department of Transportation.
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