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2013 Conference On Demand Video

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DAY One – Thursday, November 21st
9:00 – 9:10 Welcoming Comments – Queen Anne Ballroom
Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust
9:10 – 9:30 Opening Address – Queen Anne Ballroom
Cynthia Quarterman, Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
9:30 – 10:00 General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
With high profile incidents, and calls by many for improved regulations, what’s the holdup?
• Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust
• Linda Daugherty, Deputy Associate Administrator for Field Operations, PHMSA
10:00 – 10:15 Food For Thought Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
• Why we think more emphasis should be placed on Consequences – Carl Weimer, Executive Director, PST
• The problems that come from people focusing too much on Consequences – Bill Byrd, RCP
10:30 – 11:50 General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
Public Awareness Extravaganza – Can you have Public Awareness without Industry and Regulator Awareness?
• The industry knows what they want us to know, do they care what we want to know? Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust
• What did the inspections of Public Awareness programs find? – Harold Winnie, Central Region CATS Manager, PHMSA
• Benchmarks – Do we know where we are trying to go? Jim Antonevich, President, Metrix Matrix Inc
• Public Transparency and information holes? – Samya Lutz, Outreach Coordinator, Pipeline Safety Trust
• Industry efforts to listen to public desires – Shawn Lyon, Vice President of Operations, Marathon Pipe Line LLC
• Panel Q & A
11:50 – 12:15 Food For Thought Session – Real Public Involvement – Queen Anne Ballroom
• Connie Jackson, City Manager, San Bruno, CA – A California Pipeline Safety Trust
• Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust – A Great Lakes Pipeline Safety Trust
• Panel Q & A
1:30 – 1:45 Afternoon Keynote – Queen Anne Ballroom
Ed Pawlowski, Mayor, Allentown, Pennsylvania – The Need for a Mayors’ Council on Pipeline Safety
1:45 – 3:00 Breakout Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
Local authority – what’s allowed / what’s pre-empted? Why so much confusion?
• Rebecca Craven, Program Director, Pipeline Safety Trust
• Tom FitzGerald, Director, Kentucky Resource Council
• Carolyn Elefant, Principal, Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant
• Panel Q & A
3:15 – 4:30 Breakout Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
Gathering lines – Thousands of new miles. Unregulated? Really??
• Don McCoy, Director of Pipeline Safety, Access Midstream
• David Lykken, Pipeline Safety Director, Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission & Secretary, NAPSR
• Josh Joswick, Colorado Front Range Organizer, Earthworks Oil & Gas Accountability Project
• Panel Q & A
DAY TWO – Friday, November 22nd
9:00 – 9:20 Day 2 Keynote – Queen Anne Ballroom
Tim Felt, President & CEO, Colonial Pipeline
9:20 – 10:30 Breakout Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
Who oversees the regulators? Is PHMSA’s oversight of state efforts adequate? What is happening with NTSB’s call for more meaningful oversight metrics?
• Robert Miller, Pipeline Safety Supervisor, Arizona Corporation Commission & Vice Chair, NAPSR
• Scott Macey, Program Director, Office of Inspector General, USDOT
• Austin Yang, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, CA
• Alan Mayberry, Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and Programs, PHMSA
• Panel Q&A
10:45 – 11:00 Food For Thought Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
• Is PIPA dead because of the inability to address the real issues?– Carl Weimer
• PIPA, moving slowly but making good progress to institutionalize risk informed planning – Christie Murray, Program Development Director, PHMSA
11:00 – 12:15 General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
Landowner panel – Wins, losses and grumblings
• Ann Jarrell, Mayflower AR
• David Gallagher, Ceresco, MI
• Jennifer Baker, Monkton, VT
1:30 – 2:45 General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom
Who else helps drive safety? – Insurance companies, environmental groups, unions?
• David Barnett, Special Representative, United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters
• Mark Hereth, Managing Director, The Blacksmith Group / P-PIC
• Beth Wallace, Regional Community Outreach Coordinator, National Wildlife Federation
• Lois Epstein, Arctic Program Director, The Wilderness Society
• Panel Q & A

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