MN 2015 Technical Assistance Grant

Overview

Main Objective

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) will expand the work of our Repairing Our Cities' Aging Pipelines (RECAP) education and outreach campaign to the state of California. Launched in 2013, the RECAP project has been engaged nationally and at the state/regional level to educate the public, policymakers, and other key energy sector stakeholders on the state of repair of America's natural gas distribution system and the advancement of best practices and policies to achieve its modernization. The California initiative will build on similar successful PHMSA-sponsored outreach projects undertaken in Minnesota and Indiana. The primary goal of BGAF's RECAP California project is to educate labor and community partner organizations about pipeline safety, especially those directly linked to the gas sector, and to engage them in collaborative efforts to improve the identification and prevention of hazardous conditions.

Public Abstract

Under the terms of this agreement, the Recipient must demonstrate completion of the work through the actions it has specified in its Application.

1. Ensure members of BGAF's community/environmental partners and of BGAF's labor partners are educated on pipeline safety issues;
2. Build awareness about and capacity for key constituents to identify how they can mitigate potentially hazardous conditions; and
3. Develop, propose and implement labor-community-business hazard prevention strategies in communities adjacent to distribution pipelines.

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