S. 2660 — Modern Risk Detection Act of 2025

This section establishes a new requirement directing the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that pipeline safety standards allow for the use, to the maximum extent practicable, of risk-based approaches, concepts, or principles in complying with those standards. (As background, such standards govern the design, operation, and maintenance of gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to protect life, property, and the environment. Thus, this promotes regulatory flexibility for pipeline owners and operators to tailor compliance based on site-specific risk assessments.)