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Presentations-2009 Pipeline Safety Trust Conference

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Pipeline Safety – What Local Communities Want to Know
A conference for all stakeholders
Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana,
November 5th & 6th, 2009

DAY ONE – Nov. 5, 2009
9:00 – 9:05 Welcoming Comments

9:30 – 10:15 General Session
Trust but Verify – How can a community learn the facts about the pipelines that run
through them? What do the facts mean?
Jeff Wiese, Associate Administrator, Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Admin.
Peter Lidiak, Director, Pipeline Segment, American Petroleum Institute
Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust

10:15 – 10:45 General Session
Community Technical Assistance Grants – What are they? How do I get one? What hoops
do I have to jump through?
Sam Hall, PHMSA, Coordinator of Community Technical Assistance Grants

11:00 – 12:00 – General Session
Need information and assistance? Where to go, what’s available and what’s not.
Elizabeth Komiskey, Community Assistance & Technical Services, PHMSA
Susan Waller, Vice President, Stakeholder Outreach, Spectra Energy
Denise Hamsher, Director, Public, Federal & Regulatory Affairs, Enbridge Energy Co
Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust

1:30 – 2:45 General Session
Pipelines and Informed Planning Alliance (PIPA) – Bringing Guidance to Local
Communities
Sam Hall, Coordinator of Comunity Technical Assistance Grants, PHMSA
Terry Boss, Senior Vice President, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
Chuck Lesniak, Environmental Policy Program Manager, City of Austin, Texas

3:00 – 4:15 Breakouts
Local government assessment of pipeline safety and planning issues
Bob Archey, Chairman, Washington State Citizens Committee on Pipeline Safety
Robert Hill, Brookings County Zoning Director, Brookings County, South Dakota
Dick Goldsmith, PST, Proposed new pipeline safety code provisions, La Center, Washington

Local pipeline GIS applications and implementation
James Woods, City Manager, City of Blountstown, Florida
Ben Andrews, General Manager, Oak Ridge Utility District, Tennessee
John Piazza, President, Southern Cathodic Protection Co., Representing 5 grantees from
cities and local utilities in Florida & Georgia

DAY TWO – Nov. 6, 2009
9:30 – 10:45 – Breakouts
Local Government and Citizen Efforts to Understand Gas Drilling Impacts
Mayor Calvin Tillman, DISH, Texas
Deborah Rogers, Deborah’s Farmstead, Fort Worth, Texas
Wilma Subra, President, Subra Company & MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Winner

Leak assessment, emergency preparedness and response
Brad Mears, Director of Operations, Kansas Municipal Utilities, McPherson, Kansas
Andrew Dorton, Prestonsburg Utility Commission, Prestonsburg, Kentucky
Frank McGarry, Senior Policy Manager, National Association of State Fire Marshals

11:00 – 12:15 Breakouts
Citizens assessing and monitoring pipelines
Kristin Smith, Executive Director, Copper River Watershed Project, Cordova, Alaska
Anthony Moscarelli, Project Coordinator, Healthy Community Research, Suisun City, CA
Olivia Stockman, Director of Organizing & Campaigns, Northern Plains Resource Council, MT

Local government efforts to increase safety and community awareness
Lori Bonilla, Utilities Business Development Coordinator, City of Mesa, Arizona
Cathy Pratt, Engineering & Development Services Manager, City of St. Peters, Missouri
Eileen Juico, Project Consultant, West Vincent Township, Pennsylvania

1:30 – 2:45 Breakouts
Community groups assessment of safety issues regarding new pipelines
Lisa Van Houten, Bradford Glen Homeowners Association, Pennsylvania
Lynda Farrell, Consultant, Safety, Agriculture, Villages & Environment (SAVE), Pennsylvania
Libby Willis, Vice President, Fort Worth League of Neighborhood Associations, Fort Worth, TX

 

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