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Title: Pipeline Safety-Development Of Dot Damage Prevention Regulatory Approach
Author: Melvin A. Judah
Source: American Gas Association 1980
Year Published: 1980
Abstract: The Department of Transportation (DOT) has for 10 years now recognized the special problem of outside force damage to underground pipelines and utilities. In January 1972, DOT developed a Model Statute for protection of underground pipelines and Other utilities and encouraged state and local governments to enact appropriate laws which would establish effective procedures incorporating features of that Model Statute. A 1974 revision to the first Model Statute deleted the requirement for filing underground utility maps at one location. In its place, the Model Statute proposed thai anyone proposing to engage in excavation and other types of construction be required to notify 3 central agency of this intent. The agency would then advise the utility operators in the general area of the contractors intention in order that the utility operator could locate and mark the location of any lines which might be damaged by the excavation or blasting. Additional minor revisions were made to the Model Statute in June of 1977. As done earlier, the Secretary of Transportation sent a copy of the revised Model Statute to all state governors including Puerto Rico and the mayor of the District of Columbia, again encouraging state legislatures to enact laws which would require and support pipeline damage prevention programs. This Model Statute was published by the Council of State Governments in their 1978 publication of Suggested Stale Legislation.

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