About the Interagency Working Group - Ad Hoc Committees

Interagency Working Group > Ad Hoc Committee on a Regulatory Framework for a Hydrogen Economy

This Ad Hoc Committee is developing a comprehensive regulatory framework that addresses issues of safety, economic utility, and environmental soundness through the identification of existing regulatory and statutory authorities, status of those regulations, any gaps in those authorities, and the lead agency (or instances in which shared authorities exist). 
The committee promotes consistency within the regulations and comprehensive communications about regulatory oversight among government, industry, and academia on existing and planned activities related to hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
This Ad Hoc Committee also identifies the current U.S. statutes and regulations that may be applicable to hydrogen.

Chaired by the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), the committee includes representatives from DOT, Occupational Safety and Health Administration/U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Department of State.

Point of contact: William Chernicoff
Email: HydrogenRegs@dot.gov

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