U. S. Department of Transportation

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U. S. Department of Transportation
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration
www.dot.gov
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Pipeline Safety Data
Thoughts on PHMSA Data Karen
Butler Pipeline Safety Trust Conference Performanc
e Evaluation Group Office of Pipeline Safety

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Thoughts on Data

• Confusing . . . . . .
• So Why Look At Data?
• Where is the Data and Does It Say Anything?
• Seen Anything Lately?
• PEG
• Some Recent Data

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Looking at Data to Support the PHMSA Mission
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What Can the Public Do About Data?Provide
Comments

• Statutory Directives
• 49 U.S.C. 60102. Purpose and general authority
• 49 U.S. C. 60103. Standards for LNG
• Provide adequate protection against risks to life
  and property posed by pipeline transportation and
  pipeline facilities
• Law directs PHMSA to establish minimum safety
  standards for pipeline transportation and for
  pipeline facilities
• Those standards may apply to the operation,
  maintenance, design, installation, construction,
  testing, etc., of pipeline facilities
• When prescribing a standard, PHMSA must consider
  relevant pipeline safety information, the
  appropriateness and reasonableness of the
  standard, estimated costs and benefits, public
  comments, and comments/recommendations from the
  advisory committees

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What Can We See with PHMSA Data?

• Shows Jurisdictional Transmission Lines by County
• Regulations, Forms, Form Instructions,
  Definitions
• Identifies Who Implements Inspection
• Presents Accidents/Incidents detail from an
  Operators perspective
• Highlights activities that transpire while
  operators work to meet the regulations
• Identifies which operators realize that they have
  jurisdictional facilities
• Provides insight regarding a particular states
  activities
• Enforcement Activities

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What Can We See with PHMSA Data?
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• Shows Jurisdictional Transmission Lines by County
• Regulations, Forms, Form Instructions
• Identifies Who Implements Inspection
• Presents Accidents/Incidents detail from an
  Operators perspective
• Highlights activities that transpire while
  operators work to meet the regulations
• Identifies which operators realize that they have
  jurisdictional facilities
• Provides insight regarding a particular states
  activities
• Enforcement Activities

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What Can We See with PHMSA Data?

• Shows Jurisdictional Transmission Lines by County
• Regulations, Forms, Form Instructions,
  Definitions
• Identifies Who Implements Inspection
• Presents Accidents/Incidents detail from an
  Operators perspective
• Highlights activities that transpire while
  operators work to meet the regulations
• Identifies which operators realize that they have
  jurisdictional facilities
• Provides insight regarding a particular states
  activities
• Enforcement Activities

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Outreach Stakeholder Communications
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Lousiana RegulatoryFact Sheet
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What Can We See with PHMSA Data?

• Shows Jurisdictional Transmission Lines by County
• Regulations, Forms, Form Instructions
• Identifies Who Implements Inspection
• Presents Accidents/Incidents detail from an
  Operators perspective
• Highlights activities that transpire while
  operators work to meet the regulations
• Identifies which operators realize that they have
  jurisdictional facilities
• Provides insight regarding a particular states
  activities
• Enforcement Activities

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Data and Statistics
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What Can We See with PHMSA Data?

• Shows Jurisdictional Transmission Lines by County
• Regulations, Forms, Form Instructions
• Identifies Who Implements Inspection
• Presents Accidents/Incidents detail from an
  Operators perspective
• Highlights activities that transpire while
  operators work to meet the regulations
• Identifies which operators realize that they have
  jurisdictional facilities
• Provides insight regarding a particular states
  activities
• Enforcement Activities

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Gas Integrity Management
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Liquid Integrity Management
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What Can We See with PHMSA Data?

• Shows Jurisdictional Transmission Lines by County
• Regulations, Forms, Form Instructions
• Identifies Who Implements Inspection
• Presents Accidents/Incidents detail from an
  Operators perspective
• Highlights activities that transpire while
  operators work to meet the regulations
• Identifies which operators realize that they have
  jurisdictional facilities
• Provides insight regarding a particular states
  activities
• Enforcement Activities

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Outreach Stakeholder Communications
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What Can We See with PHMSA Data?

• Shows Jurisdictional Transmission Lines by County
• Regulations, Forms, Form Instructions
• Identifies Who Implements Inspection
• Presents Accidents/Incidents detail from an
  Operators perspective
• Highlights activities that transpire while
  operators work to meet the regulations
• Identifies which operators realize that they have
  jurisdictional facilities
• Provides insight regarding a particular states
  activities
• Enforcement Activities

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New Group in PHMSA the PEG
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Future Plans

• Stay in touch with the evolving needs of our
  customers
• Need continued input and feedback
• Continue to fold in updated data
• Use a variety of sources to identify new Operator
  Lists (new or just missing data)

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Future Plans

• Develop more tools to make use of existing or
• improved data more effectively
• Fine Tune Models on Risk
• Look at who is not submitting data
• Change how we see the data

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Future Plans

• Assist in defining and updating required data
• What repeat enforcement actions exist and does
  this lead to changes that may be needed?
• Continue work to define and share Region best
  practices

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• Some Items Data Revealed Lately

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Data Trends
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Data Trends
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Data Trends
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Data Trends
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Working TogetherExcavation
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Civil Penalty Provision?
Source One-Call Systems International Committee
of the Common Ground Alliance
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Safety Pyramid
Serious Failure
Reportable
Significant and Minor Events
Un-reportable
Intervention by Personnel or Safety Systems
Recorded
Near Miss, Identified
Un-recorded
Near Miss, Undetected
PHMSA Data Doesnt Say Much at this Time About
Near Miss or Close Call information
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