Sentences with phrase «pipeline safety action»
Secretary LaHood was joined by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrator Cynthia Quarterman, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Congressman Charlie Dent and other federal, state and local officials to unveil the Department's new pipeline safety action plan in Allentown, where a devastating natural gas pipeline failure killed five people and leveled homes and businesses on February 9.
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The Proposed Compliance Order incorporates remedial actions that correspond to each alleged violation to ensure compliance with pipeline safety regulations and improve safety.
In this rulemaking action, PHMSA is amending the pipeline safety regulations to improve protection of the public, property, and the environment by closing regulatory gaps where appropriate, and ensure that operators increase the detection and remediation of unsafe conditions and mitigate the adverse effects of hazardous liquid pipeline failures.
According to the corrective action order issued by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the «age of the pipeline», as well as the reversal of its flow and its location near water resources and populated areas, makes the Pegasus Pipeline «hazardous to life, property, and the environment» until «corrective measures» are taken.
The May spills resulted in the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issuing a Corrective Action Order to TransCanada, finding that «the continued operation of the pipeline without corrective measures would be hazardous to life, property and the environment.»