# Hazardous Liquids and Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Public Education and Liaison

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- **citation:** 16 TAC § 8.310
- **title:** Hazardous Liquids and Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Public Education and Liaison
- **source type:** regulation
- **agency:** Railroad Commission of Texas
- **status:** current
- **official:** true
- **published on:** Not available
- **effective on:** 2010-08-30
- **summary:** (a) Liaison activities required. Each operator of a hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline or pipeline facilities or the operator's designated representative shall communicate and conduct liaison activities at intervals not exceeding 15 months, but at least once each calendar year with fire, po
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(a) Liaison activities required. Each operator of a
hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline or pipeline
facilities or the operator's designated representative shall
communicate and conduct liaison activities at intervals not
exceeding 15 months, but at least once each calendar year
with fire, police, and other appropriate public emergency
response officials. The liaison activities are those required by
49 CFR Part 195.402(c)(12). These liaison activities shall be
conducted in person, except as provided by this section.
(b) Meetings in person. The operator or the operator's
representative may conduct required community liaison
activities as provided by subsection (c) of this section only if
the operator or the operator's representative has completed
one of the following efforts to conduct a community liaison
meeting in person with the officials:

(1) mailing a written request for a meeting in person
to the appropriate officials by certified mail, return receipt
requested;
(2) sending a request for a meeting in person to the
appropriate officials by facsimile transmission; or
(3) making one or more telephone calls or e-mail
message transmissions to the appropriate officials to request
a meeting in person.
(4) At any time the operator or operator's
representative makes contact with the appropriate officials
and schedules a meeting in person, no further attempts to
make contact under this section are necessary. However, if a
scheduled meeting does not take place, the operator or
operator's representative shall make an effort to re-schedule
the community liaison meeting in person with the officials
using one of the methods in paragraphs (1) - (3) of this
subsection before proceeding to arrange a conference call
pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
(c) Alternative methods. If the operator or operator's
representative cannot arrange a meeting in person after
complying with subsection (b) of this section, the operator or
the operator's representative shall conduct community liaison
activities by one of the following methods:
(1) holding a telephone conference with the
appropriate officials; or
(2) delivering the community liaison information
required to be conveyed by certified mail, return receipt
requested.
(d) Records. The operator shall maintain records
documenting compliance with the liaison activities required
by this section. Records of attendance and acknowledgment
of receipt by the emergency response officials shall be
retained for five years from the date of the event that is
commemorated by the record. Records of certified mail
and/or telephone transmissions undertaken in compliance
with subsections (b) and (c) of this section satisfy the record-
keeping requirements of this subsection.
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