The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) held its monthly Pipeline Security Program stakeholder conference call today and announced that it plans to complete at least 20 corporate security reviews in FY2021. To date, TSA has received commitments from 11 operators for FY2021 corporate security reviews. TSA is actively discussing future corporate security reviews with 14 other operators and will be contacting 7 additional operators in the coming weeks. TSA also indicated that 115 facilities are due for facility security reviews in FY2021. TSA is actively scheduling facility security reviews but is allowing some facilities to defer security reviews due to COVID-19 related concerns.
Congressional Efforts to Restore Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Continue
On April 18, 2024, a bipartisan group of Representatives in the U.S. House, led by Laurel Lee (R-FL), redoubled efforts to restore CFATS by offering