An October 2023 consent agreement between Equitrans and the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration established an accelerated schedule for safety inspections and evaluations to verify the integrity of the pipeline, and said that audits of the MVP's coatings would be conducted by a third-party firm. The agreement was entered into by the parties to settle issues raised by the agency in August 2023 after it found conditions along the MVP's path that the agency said "pose a pipeline integrity risk to public safety, property, or the environment."