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“DOT should report on state call-before-you-dig progress and damage rates, and should consider state enforcement, damage reporting, near-miss reporting, and safety results when awarding excavation damage prevention grants.”
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“The federal government should fund and oversee pipeline safety work so inspections, rules, research, and state safety programs can keep up with current risks.”
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“Pipeline safety rules should reduce preventable damage from digging, changing nearby development, idle pipelines, pressure risks, and land management around pipelines.”
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“Pipeline operators and governments should be ready to warn people, respond quickly, and pay attention to spill and leak risks when emergencies happen.”
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“Pipelines in dangerous or crowded areas should be able to shut off a broken section quickly so less fuel or carbon dioxide escapes.”
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“The federal government should fund pipeline safety programs, emergency planning, local information, damage prevention, and repairs to risky public gas lines.”
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“Federal pipeline safety work should receive several years of funding from pipeline user fees, underground gas storage fees, and oil spill trust fund money, with some fee money allowed to stay available until spent.”
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“Pipeline safety rules should put public safety and environmental harm ahead of narrow cost concerns, and they should be able to cover older pipelines too.”
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“State call-before-you-dig programs should set clearer locate ticket limits, narrow exemptions linked to common damage, improve responses and markings, train excavators and locators, and encourage better locating tools.”
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