(Last updated July 2016)
The Pipeline Safety Trust received a TAG Grant from PHMSA to update our original landowners guide to pipelines.
You can download the guide by clicking here (pdf)
As part of the original 2011 effort, we conducted a survey of landowners to see what information they need, what their concerns are and how to best get that information to them. You can see those results by clicking here.
Information relating to easement negotiations and eminent domain was assembled with the assistance of a variety of people across the country. Links to eminent domain material for specific states provided by members of the Owners’ Counsel of America (www.ownerscounsel.com) are below.
The 2011 report to PHMSA on this effort can be downloaded by clicking here.
Information Regarding Eminent Domain
Alabama: Casey Pipes
Alabama-Pipeline-Condemnation-Summary-2014
Arizona: Anthony Misseldine
Arizona-Eminent-Domain-2014
Florida: Andrew Brigham
Florida-Owners-Handbook-2014
Kansas: John Hamilton
Kansas-Eminent-Domain-2009
and Kansas-Condemnation-Procedings-2012
Massachusetts: James Masterman and Russell Plato
Massachussetts-Eminent-Domain-2014
Michigan: Darius Dynkowski
https://www.butzel.com/attorneys-darius-dynkowski.html
Mississippi: Paul Scott and Robert Quimby
Mississippi-Eminent-Domain-Law-Procedure-2014
Missouri: Robert Denlow
http://www.denlow.com/Eminent-Domain-Information/Missouri-Eminent-Domain-Law.shtml
Nebraska: William G. Blake
Nebraska-Eminent-Domain-Procedure-2014
Nevada: Kermitt Waters and Michael A. Schneider
Nevada-Eminent-Domain-Law-Procedures-2011
New Jersey: Anthony DellaPelle
New-Jersey-Summary-2014
New York: Michael Rikon
New-York-Eminent-Domain-2007
Ohio: Richard Glazer
Ohio-pipeline-article-RHGlazer-2014
Oregon: Jill Gelineau
Oregon-Eminent-Domain-2005
Pennsylvania: Michael F. Faherty
Pennsylvania-owners-guide-2011
South Carolina: Keith M. Babcock
South-Carolina-Condemnation-Practice-2011
Tennessee: J. Kevin Walsh
Tennessee-Article-Owners-Guide-2011
and Tennessee-Eminent-Domain-2011
Texas: H. Dixon Montague
Texas-Eminent-Domain-2007
Utah: Kevin E. Anderson
Utah-Review-Eminent-Domain-Law-2014
Virginia: Jeremy Hopkins and Charles Lollar
Virginia-Summary-2014
Want More Information?
Pipeline safety information for individual states
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/States.htm
Information for local governments regarding planning near pipelines https://pstrust.org/trust-initiatives-programs/planning-near-pipelines/
Glossary of pipeline terms
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/glossary/index.htm
National pipeline incident data
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/safety/PSI.html
Information on individual pipeline operators
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/operator/Operatorlist.html