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Eliminating all safety exemptions could backfire, states warn

07/25/2011
Nick SnowWashington EditorEliminating all government agency exemptions as a condition for states to remain eligible for federal one-call and damage prevention grants would do more harm than good, a state pipeline regulator warned a US House Energy and Power Committee subcommittee on July 15.Randall S. Knepper, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission's safety division director who testified on behalf of the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives, said that NAPSR members are concerned that eliminating the exemptions as the federal pipeline safety reauthorization bill proposes would undermine safety by denying states money to support their own programs."The grant ...
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