# NTSB Safety Recommendation P-70-028

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- **citation:** P-70-028
- **title:** NTSB Safety Recommendation P-70-028
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** National Transportation Safety Board
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1970-03-05
- **effective on:** 1970-03-05
- **summary:** THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE OFFICE OF PIPELINE SAFETY CONTACT EACH MUNICIPAL GAS SYSTEM UNDER ITS JURISDICTION TO EXPLAIN CLEARLY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE SAFETY ACT AND PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED NOTICES SO THAT NO MISUNDERSTANDING EXISTS. SUCH NOTIFICATION COULD BE BY LETTER, EITHER REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED, TO THE RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL OF THE CITY, SUCH AS THE MAYOR OR CITY ATTORNEY, ADDRESSED BY NA
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NTSB safety recommendation P-70-028.

THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE OFFICE OF PIPELINE SAFETY CONTACT EACH MUNICIPAL GAS SYSTEM UNDER ITS JURISDICTION TO EXPLAIN CLEARLY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE SAFETY ACT AND PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED NOTICES SO THAT NO MISUNDERSTANDING EXISTS. SUCH NOTIFICATION COULD BE BY LETTER, EITHER REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED, TO THE RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL OF THE CITY, SUCH AS THE MAYOR OR CITY ATTORNEY, ADDRESSED BY NAME. AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM EACH MUNICIPALITY THAT IT UNDERSTANDS ITS OBLIGATIONS SHOULD ALSO BE CONSIDERED.

Priority: CLASS II

Overall Status: Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action

Issued Date: 1970-03-05

Adopted Date: 1970-03-05

Overall Date Closed: 1976-07-20

Synopsis: BASED ON THE BOARD'S OBSERVATIONS OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE ACCIDENT WHICH OCCURRED IN HOUMA, LOUISIANA, ON JANUARY 24, 1970, IT IS APPARENT THAT THE CITY OFFICIALS WERE NOT AWARE OF REQUIREMENTS OF THE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE SAFETY ACT OF 1968. EVEN THOUGH THE ACT PLACED MUNICIPAL GAS SYSTEMS NOT REGULATED BY THE STATES, SUCH AS THE ONE IN HOUMA, UNDER THE DIRECT JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, OPERATORS OF THIS GAS SYSTEM CLAIMED THAT THEY HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED OF THE JURISDICTION OF OPS NOR THE INTERIM MINIMUM FEDERAL SAFETY STANDARD FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL AND OTHER GAS BY PIPELINE.

Ntsbnumber: DCA70FP002

Report Number: None

Addressee Name: RSPA

Addressee Status: Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action

Addressee Date Closed: 1976-07-20

Addressee Acronym: RSPA

Addressee Organization Type: G-Federal Government

Communication Date: 1970-03-31

Communication Type: Official Correspondence

Communication Contents: LETTER FROM OPS: ON FEBRUARY 19, 1970, OPS SENT A CIRCULAR LETTER TO ALL MUNICIPALLY OWNED GAS DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES, CALLING TO THEIR ATTENTION THE INFORMATION WHICH SUGGESTED IN NTSB MARCH 12, LETTER. OPS SENT THIS NOTICE TO THE OPERATING OFFICIAL, RATHER THAN THE MAYOR OR CITY ATTORNEY. IN THEIR EXPERIENCE IN THIS AND OTHER SAFETY PROGRAMS, THEY HAVE FOUND THAT THE BEST WAY TO GET ACTION IS TO COMMUNICATION WITH OPERATING OFFICIALS. CORRESPONDENCE DOCUMENTATION INCOMPLETE.
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