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Pipeline Operations in the Salt Lake Valley

Clifton Tholl Chairman Utah Pipeline Association

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! Pipeline Association for Public Awareness (PAPA)

The Pipeline Association for Public Awareness is a

nationwide organization of industry volunteers dedicated to communicating safety information to emergency responders, public officials and excavators. The Utah Pipeline Association and its members are sustaining members of PAPA. With input from the state associations, PAPA creates the training material used in

• ur presentations.

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! Utah Pipeline Association History Created in May 2010

! Purpose

To promote open lines of communication

and to provide consistent training across the state to Emergency Responders, Public Officials, Excavators and others.

! Mission Statement

“By educating our local communities, we will protect life, enhance public safety, improve emergency preparedness, increase protection of the environment and help to prevent damage to property and facilities”

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! Utah Pipeline Association Members

Anadarko, Blue Stakes of Utah, Chevron Pipeline,

Pioneer Pipeline, Eagle Mountain, Colorado Interstate Gas, El Paso Exploration & Production, Encana, Energy Transfer, Enterprise Products Mid America Pipeline, Holly Energy, Kern River Gas Transmission, Marathon Oil, Nephi City, Patara Oil & Gas, Plains Pipeline, L.P ., Questar Gas, Questar Pipeline, Ruby Pipeline, Running Horse Pipeline, Sinclair Pipeline, Tesoro Refining & Marketing, Williams Northwest Pipeline and UNEV Pipeline.

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! Training

Over the past 2 years, the UPA has conducted 22 training

sessions across the state for emergency responders and public officials. The training consists of a tabletop exercise, safety information concerning the products and the hazards associated with those products and contact information (emergency, local and corporate) for all of our members. Aside from our scheduled training sessions, we have, at the request of local government, conducted additional sessions for their employees.

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! Blue Stakes of Utah

Along with providing training for emergency responders and

public officials, the Utah Pipeline Association has partnered with Blue Stake of Utah to provide training to excavators throughout the state. In the past 2 years, Blue Stakes has conducted 27 training sessions across the state for more than 3,500 excavators. This training consists of how to call in a one call ticket, what the laws are in Utah concerning the excavation process, what to do if a utility is damaged and how to prevent utility damage. New for the 2012 training, Blue Stakes and the Utah Pipeline Association, in conjunction with the Pipeline Association for Public Awareness, created a 15-minute video instructing excavators

• n safe digging practices, use of the one call system, steps to be taken

in case of utility damage and how to spot and react to a pipeline release.

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! Contact information

We can be contacted at www.pipelineawareness.org. Click on

“state associations” at the bottom of the page, then on the “Utah Pipeline Association” and the on “Contact UPA”. There you can email any of our officers or fill out the form and the email will go to me. I will send the request to the appropriate operator.

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! Training Material

The Utah Pipeline Association would be glad to

provide any of the material in the packets you received today for your departments. You can also view all of this material on our website as well as

• ther training material.

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! Questions?