TX 2015 Technical Assistance Grant

Overview

Main Objective

Under this grant award the applicant will implement the Pipeline Safety Awareness project to address the public safety and economic resiliency challenges associated with rapid economic growth due to oil and gas drilling and a growing pipeline infrastructure accompanying them throughout the region. The project will serve to engage the public emergency management systems in each community, the local public officials who establish and enforce safety codes in each county, economic development professionals who interact with the business and residential construction sector, as well as the oil and gas professional organizations of the region. The proposed plan will partner with local public and civic leaders who are engaged in community development and planning and who should consider pipeline safety in their decisions for land use. The project will maintain and coordinate the region's information base for pipeline safety resources, and will also participate in public awareness projects for citizens, including special target groups such as new workforce entrants currently enrolled in vocational and technical training programs and the new residents moving to the region.

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. The Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission plans to implement the Pipeline Safety Awareness project to address the public safety and economic resiliency challenges associated with rapid economic growth due to oil and gas drilling and a growing pipeline infrastructure accompanying them throughout the region. The project will serve to engage the public emergency management systems in each community, the local public officials who establish and enforce safety codes in each county, economic development professionals who interact with the business and residential construction sector, as well as the oil and gas professional organizations of the region. The proposed plan will partner with local public and civic leaders who are engaged in community development and planning and who should consider pipeline safety in their decisions for land use. The project will maintain and coordinate the region's information base for pipeline safety resources, and will also participate in public awareness projects for citizens, including special target groups such as new workforce entrants currently enrolled in vocational and technical training programs and the new residents moving to the region.

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