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It plays an integral role in infrastructure such as buildings</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/industry-impacts/pipeline-safety" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20220120193505/http://www.nist.gov/industry-impacts/pipeline-safety" hreflang="en"><img src="/web/20220120193505im_/http://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2018/10/01/shutterstock_627465578-pipeline-grassy-hill-copyright-sundry-photography-2mb.jpg?itok=fLJkS-wU" width="100" height="67" alt="Gas pipeline crossing the hills, south San Francisco bay, San Jose, California" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20220120193505/http://www.nist.gov/industry-impacts/pipeline-safety"><span>Pipeline Safety</span> </a></h3> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-with-summary">More than 2.5 million miles of natural gas, liquid petroleum and hydrogen pipelines cross the United States. 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