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Title: Office Of Pipeline Safety Study Common Ground Best Practices For Reduction Of Third Party Damage
Author: Russ Kopidlansky
Source: American Gas Association 2000
Year Published: 2000
Abstract: In June of 1998, Public Law 105-178 (TEA-21) was signed into law. A provision of this law was a directive for the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) to determine how to prevent third party damage to underground facilities by performing a best practices study. The output from that study is the COMMON GROUND report, which was delivered on June 30, 1999, and is the accumulation of work done by 160 people in a nine-month period. The Best Practices are broken into eight areas as follows: Planning and Design One-Call Centers Locating and Marking Excavation Mapping Compliance Public Education and Awareness Reporting Each of the eight areas was a Task Team with a makeup of individuals from all entities that have an interest in underground facilities and construction. Construction contractors, facility owners, one-call center people, governmental, locate contractors, and other interested parties. To become a Best Practice, the activity had to be operational in one or more areas of the country and the task team had to agree, by consensus, that the activity was indeed a Best Practice. This paper contains a summary of the Best Practices from each Task Team. The detail for each recommended practice is available on the Office of Pipeline Safety Home Page on the net at ops.dot.gov. The Common Ground Study opened the avenues of communication between all parties which is needed to make underground damage prevention happen. This dialog has to continue and the current Best Practice work must be carried forward to reduce the incidents of underground damage to all buried facilities. 00-OP-27

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