Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) was established on November 20, 2004 under the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-426).
- Civilian staff, August 2026
- 549
- −14.5% in a year
- Rules made final this year
- 70
- 16 proposed
- Organizations that lobbied it
- 104
- 2019 to 2026
Where its power comes from
An agency can act only where a law lets it. These are the laws its rules cite, where its rules live, and the bills that would change it.
Laws it carries out
The U.S. Code sections its rules of the last six years cite as their authority, most cited first, of 63.
Its rulebook
Where the rules it wrote these six years sit in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Track record
What it made final, the cases it brought, and where Congress moved to undo its work.
Latest final rules
The newest rules it made final.
- Hazardous Materials: Incorporation of ASME Code Section XII and the National Board Inspection CodeSep 28
- Hazardous Materials: Allowing Fireworks Certification Agencies (FCAs) To Approve Professional FireworksAug 7
- Hazardous Materials: Reducing Recordkeeping Requirements for Domestic CarriersAug 4
- Hazardous Materials: Adoption of Department of Transportation Special Permit 21379Aug 4
- Hazardous Materials: Reducing Burdens on Domestic Aerosol ShippersAug 4
- Hazardous Materials: Reducing Undue Paperwork Burdens to Domestic CarriersAug 4
- Hazardous Materials: Reducing Burdens by Allowing Continued Use of Department of Transportation Special Permit PackagingsAug 4
- Hazardous Materials: Reducing Costs to Domestic Shippers and Carriers of Limited QuantitiesAug 4
Congress moving to overturn its rules
1 disapproval resolution this Congress under the Congressional Review Act.
Who runs it
Its leaders
- Paul RobertiAdministrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Department of Transportation
Who pays to be heard
- Amazon.com Services LLC$96.1M on reports naming it
- Honeywell International$52.7M on reports naming it
- Chevron, U.S.A., Inc.$45.3M on reports naming it
- Paul RobertiAdministrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Department of Transportation
- Department of TransportationThe department it sits in
- Amazon.com Services LLCLobbied it, $96.1M
- Honeywell InternationalLobbied it, $52.7M
- Chevron, U.S.A., Inc.Lobbied it, $45.3M
- SempraLobbied it, $23.6M
Its leaders
The people the Senate last confirmed to its offices, one record per office. A confirmation date is not proof someone still serves.
Who tries to sway it
Who names it on federal lobbying reports, 2019 to 2026, and who used to work there. Naming an agency is the filer’s account of where work was aimed, not a record of a meeting.
Who pays to be heard
The biggest spenders on reports that name it. A report names several issues, so each figure is the whole report.
- Amazon.com Services LLC$96.1M
- Honeywell International$52.7M
- Chevron, U.S.A., Inc.$45.3M
- Sempra$23.6M
- American Chemistry Council$21.5M
- Phillips 66$18.8M
- Enbridge (U.S.) Inc.$11.1M
- American Farm Bureau Fed$11M
- Cheniere Energy, Inc.$10.5M
- Renewable Fuels Association$10.2M
- Association of American Railroads$9.5M
- Interstate Natural Gas Association of America$8.89M
- National Association of Manufacturers$8.57M
- Duke Energy Corporation$8.26M
- American Petroleum Institute$7.05M
- Agricultural Retailers Association$6.16M
- 3M Company$5.84M
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen$5.3M
- American Gas Association$4.49M
- Energy Marketers of America$4.08M
Who files the lobbying
The firms on reports that name it, by how many clients they filed for.
- Government Affairs Solutions, LLC2 clients
- Mr. Edward Merlis2 clients
- Ptsa Formerly Known as "Mark S. Morgan2 clients
- Holland & Knight LLP2 clients
- Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLC2 clients
- Mayer Brown LLP2 clients
- K&L Gates, LLP2 clients
- American Chemistry Council1 client
- American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA)1 client
- Agricultural Retailers Association1 client
- American Petroleum Institute1 client
- Appalachian Voices1 client
- Ardeidae Group LLC1 client
- Artba1 client
- American Industrial Hygiene Association1 client
- American Gas Association1 client
- Amazon.com Services LLC1 client
- Barnes & Thornburg, LLP1 client
- Blank Rome LLP1 client
- Baker Hughes Company1 client
Former staff now lobbying
Lobbyists whose filings list a past job here.
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