Pipeline Safety : The Office of Pipeline Safety Is Changing How It Oversees the Pipeline Industry

The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) administers the regulatory program to ensure the safe transport. of natural gas & haz. liquids by pipeline. In response to concern about the pipeline rupture that spilled 250,000 gallons of gas into a creek in Bellingham, WA in June 1999, killing 3 people, this report reviews the OPS's performance in regulating pipeline safety. It examined: the extent of major pipeline accidents from 1989-1998; OPS's implementation of the 1996 act's risk mgmt. demo. program; the OPS's inspection & enforcement efforts since the act's implementation; the OPS's responsiveness to recommendations from the Nat. Transport. Safety Board.Scheinberg, Phyllis F. is the author of 'Pipeline Safety : The Office of Pipeline Safety Is Changing How It Oversees the Pipeline Industry', published 2001 under ISBN 9780756703202 and ISBN 0756703204.