Pipeline Safety Stakeholder Communications

PHMSA issued this Corrective Action Order to BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc., (BPXA) for a spill on the North Slope of Alaska on March 15, 2006. BPXA experienced another spill on the North Slope in August 2006. As a result of the spills and probable violations of the Corrective Action Order, PHMSA and the EPA referred the matter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for judicial enforcement. In March 2009, the U.S. filed suit against BPXA alleging violations of the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the federal Pipeline Safety Laws and seeking civil penalties and injunctive relief. In July 2011, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska approved a consent decree among the parties in which BPXA agreed to pay a combined $25 million civil penalty. The government allocated $4.5 million of the penalty for pipeline safety matters. This is in addition to the approximately $200 million that BPXA had already spent replacing the lines that leaked on the North Slope.

The Response Options for Pipeline Operators in Compliance Proceedings provides a more detailed description of an operator's options in responding to enforcement cases. This document accompanies all NOPV and NOA letters. The document linked here is the current version. The corresponding document at the time the case was opened may differ from the current version.

The set of documents provided here may be incomplete.

Name	Size	Notes
520065015H_Consent Decree Appendix A_07132011.pdf	1,017 KB	scanned version
520065015H_Consent Decree Appendix A_07132011_text.pdf	1,808 KB	accessible version
520065015H_Consent Decree_07132011.pdf	347 KB	scanned version
520065015H_Consent Decree_07132011_text.pdf	347 KB	accessible version
520065015H_Corrective_Action_Order_03152006.pdf	254 KB	scanned version
520065015H_closure letter_03062012.pdf	34 KB	scanned version
520065015H_closure letter_03062012_text.pdf	12 KB	accessible version
BP 5-2006-5015H - Final.pdf	270 KB	scanned version
CPF_5_2006_5015H.pdf	125 KB	scanned version
CPF_NO5-2006-5015H.pdf	410 KB	scanned version
CPF_NO5-2006-5015H.txt	21 KB	accessible version
CPF_No_5-2006-5015 Amendment-2.pdf	450 KB	scanned version
CPF_No_5-2006-5015 Amendment-2.txt	23 KB	accessible version
cpf_5_2006_5015h_text.pdf	703 KB	accessible version

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