Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Budget Estimates, Fiscal Year 2013

摘要

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) administers nationwide safety programs designed to protect the public and the environment from the risks in the commercial transportation of hazardous materials by air, rail, vessel, highway, and pipeline. PHMSA oversees the transportation of hazardous liquids and natural gas through a network of 2.6 million miles of pipelines, serving more than 70 million residential and commercial customers. These pipelines transport and supply more than two-thirds of the fuel used to heat, cool, and operate American homes, cars, and businesses, including most of the energy powering transportation modes. PHMSA also oversees the safe and secure shipment of up to one million daily movements of hazardous materials by all transportation modes, including explosive, poisonous, corrosive, flammable, and radioactive materials. These materials are essential to the American public and local economies due to their use in farming, medical applications, manufacturing, mining, power generation, water purification, and many other industrial processes and products.