Overview
| State | Minnesota |
|---|---|
| Project No. | 449 |
| Grant No. | DTPH56-12-G-PHPS06 |
| Grant Recipient | Minnesota Office of Pipeline Safety Minnesota Department of Public Safety Central Office, Town Square Building 444 Cedar Street Saint Paul, MN 55101 |
| GOTR | Annmarie Robertson |
| Grantee Contact Info | Elizabeth Skalnek 444 Cedar St., Suite 147 St. Paul, MN 55101-5147 Phone: (651)201-7239 mn@napsr.net |
| Project Status | Closed |
|---|---|
| Start Fiscal Year | 2012 (09/01/2012) |
| End Fiscal Year | 2013 (08/31/2013) |
| PHMSA $$ Budgeted | $95,000.00 |
Main Objective
- Develop and implement methods for effective communication
- Foster support and partnership with stakeholders
- Reviewing the adequacy of internal performance measures
- Support a Damage Prevention Education Program for industry stakeholders
- Support Public Awareness and Stakeholder Education
- Resolving disputes to define State authority's role and
- Laws and regulation of the damage prevention process
- Foster and promote the use of Improving Technologies
- Review the Effectiveness of Damage Prevention Programs
Public Abstract
The grantee will address the following elements:
- Element (1): Participation by operators, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of methods for establishing and maintaining effective communications between stakeholders from receipt of an excavation notification until successful completion of the excavation, as appropriate.
- Element (2): A process for fostering and ensuring the support and partnership of stakeholders, including excavators, operators, locators, designers, and local government in all phases of the program.
- Element (3): A process for reviewing the adequacy of a pipeline operator's internal performance measures regarding persons performing locating services and quality assurance programs.
- Element (4): Participation by operators, excavators, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of effective employee training programs to ensure that operators, the once call center, the enforcing agency, and the excavators, and locators.
- Element (5): A process for fostering and ensuring active participation by all stakeholders in public education for damage prevention activities.
- Element (6): A process for redolving disputes that defines the Stae authority's role as a partner and facilitator to resolve issues.
- Element (7): Enforcement of State damage prevention laws and regulations for all aspects of the damage prevention process, including public education, and the use of civil penalties for violoations assesable by the appropriate State authority.
- Element (8): A process for fostering and promoting the use, by all appropriate stakeholders, of improving technologies that may enhance communications, underground pipeline locating capability, and gathering and analyzing information about the accuracy and effectiveness of locating programs.
- Element (9): A process for review and analysis of the effectiveness of each program element, including a means for implementing improvements identified by such program review.
Relevant Files & Links
Final Report
2012 Final SDP Report.pdf
Contract Documents
EXECUTED 12GPHPS06.pdf
Other Files
MN - SDP - Progress Report and Mid-term Financial Status Report.pdf
MN_-_SDP_-_Progress_Report_and_Mid-term_Financial_Status_Report.pdf