Sentences with phrase «pipeline safety rules»
This legislation will provide stronger oversight of the nation's pipelines; increase penalties for violations of pipeline safety rules; and allocate additional resources for enforcement.
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The Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance advises the Secretary on national and international drug testing and control issues and is the principal advisor to the Secretary on rules related to the drug and alcohol testing of safety - sensitive transportation employees in aviation, trucking, railroads, mass transit, pipelines, and other transportation industries.
ODAPC advises the Secretary on national and international drug testing and control issues and is the principal advisor to the Secretary on rules related to the drug and alcohol testing of safety - sensitive transportation employees in aviation, trucking, railroads, mass transit, pipelines, and other transportation industries.
The rule also addresses NTSB recommendations issued in response to an NTSB safety study on integrity management and investigations of the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California that killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes and the 2014 rupture in Sissonville, West Virginia, that destroyed 3 homes and closed Interstate 77 for 19 hours.
In our Google + Hangout, we talk about the site's reporting package, which charted the causes, impacts and significance of a million - gallon spill of diluted bitumen in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan in 2010 but expanded to look at the outdated rules for pipeline monitoring and safety.
The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has said it will be sending an advisory bulletin to owners and operators of underground natural gas storage facilities with recommendations to protect the public and workers and the environment and plans to release a natural gas transmission rule for existing pipelines.
-- Place a moratorium on proposals for new and expanded dilbit pipelines until new rules are created for dilbit transportation safety.
UPDATE V: «A coalition led by the National Wildlife Federation is demanding a moratorium on pending tar sands pipelines — including the Keystone XL — until regulators establish new rules to ensure their safety,» reports Lisa Song at InsideClimate News:
Wiese told several hundred oil and gas pipeline compliance officers that his agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration (PHMSA), has «very few tools to work with» in enforcing safety rules even after Congress in 2011 allowed it to impose higher fines on companies that cause major accidents.