---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 60138"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "60138"
heading: "Response plans"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/60138"
units:
  - "Subtitle VIII — Pipelines"
  - "Chapter 601 — Safety"
---

# §60138. Response plans

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretary](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) of [Transportation](/usc/49/13907.md?p=e-2) shall—
  - (1) maintain on file a copy of the most recent response plan (as defined in [part 194 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations](/cfr/49/part194.md)) prepared by an owner or [operator](/usc/49/30501.md?p=6) of a [pipeline facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-18); and
  - (2) provide upon written request to a person a copy of the plan, which may exclude, as the [Secretary](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) determines appropriate—
    - (A) proprietary information;
    - (B) security-sensitive information, including information described in [section 1520.5(a) of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations](/cfr/49/1520.5.md?p=a);
    - (C) specific response resources and tactical resource deployment plans; and
    - (D) the specific amount and location of worst case discharges (as defined in [part 194 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations](/cfr/49/part194.md)), including the process by which an owner or [operator](/usc/49/30501.md?p=6) determines the worst case discharge.
- (b) **Relationship to FOIA.—** Nothing in this section may be construed to require disclosure of information or records that are exempt from disclosure under [section 552 of title 5](/usc/5/552.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–90, § 6(c)(1), Jan. 3, 2012, 125 Stat. 1910.)