INDIANA’S AGING AND POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS

PIPELINE SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE

MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL PRESENTED BY:THE HOOSIER ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL

AND THE PIPELINE SAFETY TRUST

Introduction• Marianne Holland, Media Consultant, Hoosier

Environmental Council

• Tim Maloney, Senior Policy Director, Hoosier Environmental Council

• Rebecca Craven, Program Director, Pipeline Safety Trust

• Kim Ferraro, Staff Attorney & Director of Water Policy, Hoosier Environmental Council

Overview & Logistics

• U.S. pipeline systems, current safeguards & regulatory gaps

• Indiana Implications: a look at Enbridge Energy Line 6B

• Recommendations for improved pipeline safety

• Q & A

Rebecca Craven, Program DirectorJune 27, 2013

Gasoline pipeline explosion - Bellingham, Washington

• Only national non-profit focused on pipeline safety.

• Information and Advocacy

• Independent technical papers

• Represents public interest in various forums

• National Conference, website, newsletter

• 175,000 miles of hazardous liquid lines• 321,000 miles of gas transmission lines• 2 million miles of gas distribution lines

End to end, that’s almost 100 times around the earth.

Miles of Pipelines in the U.S.

Pipeline Safety Regulations• Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration

(PHMSA) is an agency within the USDOT.• Minimum safety requirements for transmission

and distribution lines, found in 49 CFR Parts 192 (gas), 195 (liquid), 193 (LNG) and 194 (spill response).

• States can enact more stringent safety regulations only for intrastate pipelines.

Pipeline Safety Regulations

• Indiana (Pipeline Safety Division of Utility Regulation Commission)– inspects and enforces rules on intrastate

gas lines; – inspects on intrastate liquid lines; – PHMSA does all interstate lines and

enforcement on intrastate liquid lines.

Other aspects of Pipeline Regulation

• Siting and Routing:– Interstate natural gas lines: exclusively FERC– All others: States or local governments (Indiana

does not have a siting authority)• Environmental permits:

– Federal, state and local agencies-• Right of Way acquisition: eminent domain

– FERC-regulated lines have ED authority once certificate issues

– All others vary by state

Other aspects of Pipeline Regulation

• Spill response planning: Oil Pollution Act of 1990, part of Clean Water Act– PHMSA approves pipeline operators’ facility

response plans; other facilities regulated by EPA or Coast Guard

– States may also require spill response plans, and those requirements are explicitly not preempted by the federal rules.

– Indiana has not enacted spill response rules.

Finding Information about Pipelines Near You

https://npms.phmsa.dot.gov

PHMSA state pages

Incident information by operator

Causes of Liquid Pipeline Failures

State Regulators

Indiana Pipelines

47 interstate hazardous liquid pipelines

13 intrastate hazardous liquid pipelines

Enbridge Energy – Line 6B

The Marshall Spill

Impacts of Pipeline Construction

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Impacts of Pipeline Construction

Risks to Waterways

There is a less damaging alternative

Missed Opportunity for Local Control

LaPorte County Zoning Ordinance: Article 22 – Natural Resource

Protection

Absolutely no development activity may occur within 75 feet of the ordinary high water mark of streams, lakes and ponds or within 50 feet from the edge of wetlands.

Recommendations

• Indiana should adopt a law requiring a full public interest review, including an EIS, analysis of alternatives

• Indiana should adopt a law directing the IURC to pursue an agreement with PHMSA to undertake inspections of interstate pipelines.