ADDITIONAL INSPECTORS.

SEC. 305. ADDITIONAL INSPECTORS. To the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Secretary of Transportation, in fiscal year 1993, shall employ and retain thereafter an additional 12 employees for regional or field pipeline safety offices above the number of such employees authorized for fiscal year 1992. The primary functions of such additional employees shall be— (1) to provide technical assistance and training to State pipeline inspectors and to assist in the review and management of pipeline safety grants; (2) to inspect pipeline facilities, including interstate and intrastate hazardous liquid pipeline facilities in those States that do not have a hazardous liquid pipeline safety program that meets the requirements of section 205 (a) or (b) of the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. App. 2004 (a) or (b)); (3) to assist the States identified in paragraph (2) in developing hazardous liquid pipeline safety programs that meet such requirements; and 106 STAT. 3309 (4) to inspect interstate hazardous liquid pipeline facilities constructed before 1971.