(a) Each gas utility which engages in the transportation of gas or which owns or operates pipeline facilities shall establish and maintain such records, make such reports and provide such information as the Commission may reasonably require to enable it to determine whether the utility has acted or is acting in compliance with the standards established under this article.
(b) Each utility shall, upon request of any officer, employee or agent authorized by the Commission, permit the officer, employee or agent to inspect books, papers, records and documents relevant to determining whether the utility has acted or is acting in compliance with the standards established pursuant to this article.
(c) The Commission is authorized to conduct such other relevant inspection and investigation as may be necessary to aid in the enforcement of the standards established pursuant to this article. The Commission shall furnish the Attorney General any information obtained indicating noncompliance with such standards for appropriate action. For purposes of enforcement of this article, officers, employees or agents authorized by the Commission upon presenting appropriate credential to the individual in charge are authorized (1) to enter upon, at reasonable times, pipeline facilities, and (2) to inspect, at reasonable times and within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner the facilities. Each inspection shall be commenced and completed with reasonable promptness.
(d) Accident reports made by any officer, employee or agent of the Commission shall be available for use, but not admissible into evidence, in any civil, criminal or other judicial proceeding arising out of an accident. Any officer, employee or agent may be required to testify in such proceedings as to the facts developed in the investigations, but no officer, employee or agent shall give opinion testimony or otherwise testify as to the ultimate fact in any civil, criminal or other judicial proceeding out of the accident, except in a proceeding or action between the Commission and a gas utility. Any report shall be made available to the public in a manner which need not identify individuals. All reports on research projects, demonstration projects and other related activities shall be public information.
(e) All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the Commission or its representative pursuant to subsection (a), (b) or (c), which information contains or relates to a trade secret, shall be considered confidential, except that such information may be disclosed to other officers or employees concerned with carrying out this article or when relevant in any proceeding under this article. Nothing in this section shall authorize the withholding of information by the Commission or any officer, employee or agent under its control from the duly authorized committees of the State legislature.