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Title: Presentation By Administrator, Research And Special Programs Administration
Author: Cindy Douglass
Source: American Gas Association 1988
Year Published: 1988
Abstract: The Gas Distribution and Transmission Industry has long provided the businesses and consumers of our country with a cost efficient means of transporting natural gas, which is necessary to our present quality of life. Despite the hazardous characteristics of natural gas and many liquid products, pipeline transportation is by far and away the safest and most environmentally acceptable mode of transportation in existence today. Your industry has an excellent safety record. In fact, 1987 was the safest year ever. There were no fatalities caused by transmission pipeline failures and only eight fatalities on distribution lines. There were 96 injuries, the fewest ever. Of those, 48 were due to third-party damages, not to improperly maintained or operated pipelines. I believe this safety record, despite a network of more than 1.5 milhon miles is the result of a partnership between your industry, the states, and the federal government and a commitment to placing safety first in the line of priorities. This is the perspective I place before Congress, the Secretary, the 0MB, and the Office of Pipeline Safety of the Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) when our budget for pipeline safety and our positions on legislation or regulations are considered and in setting policy directions for our federal/state program.

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