Pipelines and Public Safety: Effective Measures for Limiting Encroachment

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U. S. Department of Transportation
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration
www.dot.gov
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Increasing Pipeline Safety Through Shared Planning
Pipelines and Informed Planning Alliance (PIPA)

• Pipeline Safety Stakeholder Conference
• November 15, 2007
• New Orleans, LA

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What is PIPA?

• Enterprise of Pipeline Safety Stakeholders
• Steering Committee met August 1, 2007
• Plenary and Task Team meetings teleconferences
  for one year starting January 2008
• Protecting Communities
• Protecting Pipelines
• Risk Communication

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Protecting Communities

• What should stakeholders do, or avoid doing,
  adjacent to the right-of-way to reduce the risk
  to communities?
• Property Development
• Zoning Ordinances
• Growth Planning
• Real Estate Disclosure

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ProtectingPipelines

• What should stakeholders do, or avoid doing, on
  the right-of-way to reduce the risk to pipelines?
• Property Development
• Easement Terms Conditions
• Patrolling by Operators
• Environmental Stewardship

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RiskCommunication

• How should risks to communities and pipelines be
  communicated to stakeholders?
• Attributes of communities and pipelines that
  affect incident probability and consequences
• Role and Value of Transmission Pipelines
• Incident Rates at the National Level
• Format and Distribution of all three Task Team
  work products

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Who Needs tobe Involved?

• Participants speaking on behalf of an
  organization of stakeholders
• Local Government Officials
• Transmission Pipeline Industry
• Property Development Industry
• Real Estate Industry
• Public Safety Advocates
• State and Federal Agencies

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PHMSAOutreach

• PIPA Steering Committee members recruiting within
  their organization
• 35 organizations invited to participate in PIPA
  being contacted by OPS PIPA Team
• Karen Butler Alex Dankanich
• John Jacobi Blaine Keener
• Jerry Kenerson Joe Mataich
• Ross Reineke Harold Winnie
• Pipeline Safety Stakeholder Communications
• http//primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/PIPA.htm

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Pipelines and Informed Planning Alliance (PIPA)
Increasing Pipeline Safety Through Shared Planning
Presented by Blaine KeenerCommunity Assistance
and Technical Services Coordinator202-366-0970bl
aine.keener_at_dot.gov
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U. S. Department of Transportation
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration
www.dot.gov