OPS Table of Contents:
UPDATE ON WEB PAGE
WEB PAGE ADDRESS: OPS.DOT.GOV
04/13/2004
The Department of Transportation's (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA), acting through the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), administers the Department's national regulatory program to assure the safe transportation of natural gas, petroleum, and other hazardous materials by pipeline. OPS develops regulations and other approaches to risk management to assure safety in design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance, and emergency response of pipeline facilities. Since 1986, the entire pipeline safety program has been funded by a user fee assessed on a per-mile basis on each pipeline operator OPS regulates.
This is a break down of the information that is available on the Office of Pipeline Safety's (OPS) Web Page. This information will come in handy when dealing with OPS customers. There is a large amount of information about OPS and Pipeline Safety that is now quickly and easily available through our web site.
Damage Prevention
Information about our public education campaign pertaining to Damage Prevention Best Practices, for the implementation of a One-Call System study.
Federal, State and Industry OPS Partners
This section contains links to our research, industry, and state government partners web pages.
 States Secure Site Access
Feedback
This link allows the user to contact the OPS webmaster directly through the Internet. E-mail sent to the webmaster may be forwarded to other OPS/PHMSA/DOT staff members. Please review the OPS Privacy Statement on this website for details.
FOIA
This section explains what FOIA is, what the Privacy Act is and what the procedures are for filing a FOIA request.
Integrity Management
These web sites provide information about OPS Hazardous Liquid and Gas Integrity Management Programs for Pipelines Located in High Consequence Areas. The sites provide key documents, fact sheets, flowcharts, Frequently Asked Questions, Inspection Protocols and Contacts.
Longhorn Environmental Assessment Information and link to EPA's site
Major Accidents
Contains list of recent major Accidents
Mapping
National Pipeline Mapping System - The Department of Transportation's Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) is working with state agencies and the pipeline industry to create a National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS). This system will show the location and selected attributes of the major natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines and liquefied natural gas facilities operating in the US.
ON-LINE LIBRARY
This section is an index to all available electronic data from OPS. In addition to any information listed under "Forms" or "Stats", you may obtain the following:
- User Assessment Fees - for Fiscal Year 2000.
- Safety Related Condition Reports - The Office of Pipeline Safety SRC Reports for 1989 through 1999.
- Annual Reports to Congress - The Office of Pipeline Safety Annual Reports for 1993 & 1994.
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)-pertaining to Pipelines; Title 49, parts 190-199.
- Statutes and Mandates-pertaining to Pipelines; View and download the Accountable Pipeline Safety and Partnership Act of 1996; and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act.
- Compliance Notices by Region - This section contains compliance notices of Amendment that are distributed by OPS regional offices.
- Compliance Final Orders and Letters by Region - This section contains orders, warning letters, and letters of concern that are distributed by OPS regional offices.
- General Inspection Forms - The inspections forms that are utilized by the OPS/State inspector when conducting a pipeline safety inspection of the operator's operation and maintenance of their pipeline system. The following forms are included under "Forms" in this section:
- Evaluation Report of Gas Distribution System
- Evaluation Report of Gas Transmission Pipeline
- Evaluation Report of a Liquid Pipeline
- Evaluation Report of Liquid Natural Gas Facilities
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- Incident/Accident Data - This section contains data from 1970 to 1984, and 1984 to present; pertaining to the following:
- Hazardous Liquid Accident Data
- Natural Gas Distribution Incident Data
- Natural Gas Transmission Incident Data
- Operator Annual Reports - This section contains the 1996 annual reports for distribution and transmission pipeline operators.
- Safety Related Data - This section contains the Safety Related Condition Report that are required by Section 191.25 (1988 to present).
- Telephonic Incident Notifications - This section contains the 1980-1998 telephonic notifications of pipeline incidents.
OPS and NTSB PARTNERSHIP(Currently under construction): Recommendations and Responses.
Current and past OPS responses to the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) Safety Recommendations; as required by law.
PRIMIS
Pipeline Risk Management Information System - this section contains a listing of companies participating in the Risk Management Demonstration Projects, along with specific project information.
- Pipeline Integrity Management - This web page provides information about OPS's new Rule on Pipeline Integrity Management in High Consequence Areas for Hazardous Liquid Operators (49 CFR 195.452). The site provides information on the basic steps required for 1 operator compliance with these new requirements. It also contains several useful resources, such as the rule and preamble text, a glossary of terminology, and a fact sheet summarizing the key requirements.
- Qualification of Pipeline Personnel - This web page provides information about OPS's new Rules on Operator Qualification (“OQ”) - for Gas (49 CFR Part 192, Subpart N) and Hazardous Liquid (49 CFR Part 195, Subpart G) Pipelines. The site provides information and guidance for operator compliance with these new requirements, including a set of FAQs, a glossary of terminology, and the set of protocol questions asked of an operator during an OQ inspection.
Publications
Informative documents pertaining to the Longhorn Environmental Assessment, Usually Sensitive Areas, Regulatory Development, Pipeline Safety Data Analysis, Risk Management Program Standards, The Demonstration Project Regulatory Framework, Pipeline Risk Management Directory, Drug and Alcohol Models, and Pipeline Risk Management News.
Statistical Data
The statistics that are contained in this section are as follows:
- Liquid Accident Yearly Summaries 1986-1999
- Natural Gas Incident Yearly Summaries for Transmission Operators 1986-1999
- Natural Gas Incident Yearly Summaries for Distribution Operators 1986-1999
1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 & 1994:
- Liquid Pipeline Accident Summary by Cause
- Liquid Pipeline Accident Summary by Commodity
- Natural Gas Transmission Incident Summary by Cause
- Natural Gas Distribution Incident Summary by Cause
System Integrity
This section contains information pertaining to the System Integrity Inspection Program.
Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Advisory Committees
Committee information
Text from the Gathering Line Forum
Available at the DOT Dockets System Webpage, Docket #4868
Training
Links to the Transportation Safety Institutes Web Page for a listing of course titles, objectives and schedules.
Regulations and Interpretations
Revised Pipeline Safety Regulations, Interpretations, Waivers, Summaries and links to Standards Organizations.
What's New
Current OPS initiatives, events, newsletters, bulletins, video broadcasts, etc.
VIDEO UPDATES
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