Local government/public officials are responsible for the health, safety, and welfare of their communities. They are responsible for communicating public information and raising awareness of public health and safety concerns. They are important partners in communicating pipeline safety information.
Many local governments deliver a variety of services that may interface with pipeline operations and can impact pipeline safety including water, sewer, and storm water systems, road building and maintenance, permitting, planning, zoning, and police & fire protection. They govern how work is performed in the public right-of-ways. A government’s ordinances, policies, and practices can greatly impact pipeline safety in a community.
Learn more about what local officials can do to impact pipeline safety.
Become More Involved
- Common Ground Alliance
- Local emergency planning committees
- Public meetings about pipeline safety
- Submit comments about PHMSA rulemakings
Damage Prevention
Pipeline Awareness
- Briefing: Pipeline Markers
- Community Liaison Services (formerly Community Assistance and Technical Services)
- Gas Distribution: Cast/Wrought Iron Pipe
- Land use planning near pipelines
- National Pipeline Mapping System
- Pipeline basics
- Pipeline operator public awareness programs
Pipeline Emergencies
Pipeline Regulation, Inspection And Enforcement
- Federal pipeline safety regulations
- PHMSA pipeline enforcement activity
- Pipeline incident and mileage information
- Pipeline safety inspections
- State damage prevention information
- State pipeline enforcement information
- State pipeline safety regulators
- State program performance information
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