---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 60136"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "60136"
heading: "Petroleum product transportation capacity study"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/60136"
units:
  - "Subtitle VIII — Pipelines"
  - "Chapter 601 — Safety"
---

# §60136. Petroleum product transportation capacity study

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretaries](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) of Transportation and Energy shall conduct periodic analyses of the domestic transport of petroleum products by pipeline. Such analyses should identify areas of the United States where unplanned loss of individual [pipeline facilities](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-18) may cause shortages of petroleum products or price disruptions and where shortages of pipeline capacity and reliability concerns may have or are anticipated to contribute to shortages of petroleum products or price disruptions. Upon identifying such areas, the [Secretaries](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) may determine if the current level of regulation is sufficient to minimize the potential for unplanned losses of pipeline capacity.
- (b) **Consultation.—** In preparing any analysis under this section, the [Secretaries](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) may consult with the heads of other government agencies and public- and private-sector experts in pipeline and other forms of petroleum product transportation, energy consumption, pipeline capacity, population, and economic development.
- (c) **Report to Congress.—** Not later than June 1, 2008, the [Secretaries](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report setting forth their recommendations to reduce the likelihood of the shortages and price disruptions referred to in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (d) **Additional Reports.—** The [Secretaries](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) shall submit additional reports to the congressional committees referred to in [subsection (c)](#c) containing the results of any subsequent analyses performed under [subsection (a)](#a) and any additional recommendations, as appropriate.
- (e) **Petroleum Product Defined.—** In this section, the term “petroleum product” means oil of any kind or in any form, gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, fuel oil, kerosene, any product obtained from refining or processing of crude oil, liquefied petroleum [gases](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-2), natural [gas](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-2) liquids, petrochemical feedstocks, condensate, waste or refuse mixtures containing any of such oil products, and any other liquid hydrocarbon compounds.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–468, § 8(a), Dec. 29, 2006, 120 Stat. 3492.)