On January 24, 2017, President Donald J. Trump signed a slate of executive orders and presidential memoranda focused on pipeline and other infrastructure projects. Along with memoranda that specifically concern the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline, which are receiving significant attention in the media, the President also issued a Presidential MemorandumRegarding Construction of American Pipelines (the “American Pipeline Memorandum”). The American Pipeline Memorandum is particularly notable because of the breadth of the President’s order, which directs the Secretary of Commerce to

develop a plan under which all new pipelines, as well as retrofitted, repaired, or expanded pipelines, inside the borders of the United States, including portions of pipelines, use materials and equipment produced in the United States, to the maximum extent possible and to the extent permitted by law.