Stakeholder Communications

We are the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) within the U. S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

OPS is the primary federal regulatory agency responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and environmentally sound operation of America's energy pipelines. We develop and implement pipeline safety regulations at the federal level, and we share regulatory responsibility with the states, with whom we oversee more than two million miles of pipelines.

We are changing the way pipelines are regulated and we have new strategies that are improving the operation of pipelines as well as public and environmental safety.

We are now more mindful than ever of the roles that others play in helping to ensure the safe, sustained flow of energy products across our country. We are actively partnering with state and local officials, first responders, excavators and the general public - among others - to "get the word out" on pipeline safety. All of us, in one way or another, are pipeline safety stakeholders.

On this website you will find information that you can use right now - regardless of your stakeholder interest -- to help ensure pipeline safety in your community. To begin, please select the stakeholder tab above that best describes you or select a topic from the menu on the left.

If you don't have time to browse our website you can follow this link to download a printable brochure about OPS.

Be sure to come back and browse when you have more time.

Following are some recent items of interest related to pipeline safety. Please visit http://ops.dot.gov for additional What's New and event information.