With regards to container screening in the SAFE Port Act, we required 100 percent screening of containers entering the U.S. earlier this year, but Secretary Napolitano deferred meeting this requirement until 2014.
Larsen discusses the postponement of mandatory container screening.
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Thank you, Chairman Nehls, for calling this hearing on pipeline safety and for your kind words about our colleague and friend, Representative Donald M. Payne, Jr.
Don was a leader on the PIPES Act of 2023 that our Committee voted unanimously to advance in December.
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