Its diverse, and critical to the way that americans live. In response, those of us at phmsa are addressing the issues at hand, but just important, were going beyond the issues at hand. We have challenged ourselves to invest in and plan for the future of our agency. Today, i would like to share some of our challenges and some of our opportunities. How were responding to our ever growing mission, and our longterm Strategic Vision for advancing safety through our phmsa 2021 framework. Growing up, my dad used to say he could fix anything with a pair of pliers, some duct tape, and wd40. And of course, he was absolutely right. He could fix anything. But what he likely didnt think about was the process involved in getting his tools of choice to him safely. Wd40 is a hazardous liquid transported in an aerosol can, and it has to be regulated during shipment. And it also cant be permitted on any kind of passenger aircraft and it has to follow very specific Hazardous Material labeling and packaging standards. All too susceptible to aerosol can regulations, whipped cream canisters. So my dad and every single 8yearold who has ever had an ice cream sundae with whipped cream from a canister are phmsas biggest fans. So just a quick question here. How many of you all have taken a flight in the last year . Just raise your hands. Okay. Pretty significant number. Overwhelming. Have you noticed that each time you check in, you have to agree not to bring any Hazardous Materials on your flight or in your checked bag . You have to touch that screen. Okay. Phmsa along with the faa developed these Safety Standards because many common Household Items can become dangerous when transported by air. Last fall, phmsa issued a safety advisory and shortly after an interim final rule banning the transport of electronic smoking devices or ecigarettes in checked bags on commercial flights. After a series of close call incidents, it became clear that these devices, which are powered by lithium ion batteries, were susceptible to overheating in the cargo compartments of commercial aircraft. The interim final rule addressed these concerns and provided guidance for safe transportation of personal devices as long as precautions are taken to reduce the risk of fire. This is just but one example of how phmsa addressed safety issues. By learning from incidents, by analyzing critical data, by Understanding Market and technology advancements, and proactively issuing guidance for safe transportation of these products. As i mentioned, our mission is to protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and other Hazardous Materials. Our operating model demands that we keep a close eye on industry trends, collect and leverage data, and understand emerging technologies and the changing Energy Environment in order to anticipate risk, inform our regulations, and truly drive safety. At phmsa, were transportation, energy, and Hazardous Materials experts. We are engineers, analysts, policymakers, and inspectors. And lawyers, too. We have some of the worlds leading corrosion and welding experts, and we actually hold a chair of the u. N. Subcommittee on transportation of dangerous goods. These are all members of our teams. Of our team. And this team is incredibly dedicated. And their dedication is matched by their expertise, and each of them contributes on a daily basis to safety, our level of enforcement, and response. Its really truly entrusted to our agency. Our regulators, as regulators, our goal is to smartly leverage the full scope of tools at our disposal, from regulation to edge caution and outreach. All in an effort to eliminate incidents and accidents, injury and harm. We inspect and enforce compliance of the Safety Standards that we promulgate. And we incorporate Lessons Learned from these accidents and incidents. Identifying trends and considering the human as well as the environmental impact, as we develop policies, initiatives, and regulations. In the last decade, the way that the American Public consumes and interacts with energy and Energy Products has fundamentally changed. And today, the expectation is that these interactions will be so safe and reliable that the public really doesnt have to think about the risk thats involved. They, the American Public, and you should associate this safe level of transportation with a job that we do every single day at phmsa. Phmsa is a relatively new and unique agency, established in 2004 by the mineta act, the creation of phmsa brought the regulation of the movement of Hazardous Materials by all modes, including pipeline, under one domain. Today, we house these two different programs, and yet interconnected Safety Programs all under one roof. Our office of Pipeline Safety regulates the designs, construction, operation, and inspection of pipelines that transport oil and natural gas across the country. Its also what powers our homes, cars, and the economy. The office of Hazardous Materials regulates the transport, packaging, and labeling of all Hazardous Materials. And provides training to Emergency Responders who deal with transportation incidents involving hazmat. There are over 2. 6 million miles of pipeline in the United States. This is enough pipe to circle the globe 104 times. Phmsa sets the standards for safety for this vast underground Pipeline Infrastructure which moves natural gas, oil, and other Energy Products 24 hours a day. We also regulate the move of Hazardous Material, including explosives, poisonous, corrosive, flammable, and radioactive materials. All valued at about 2. 3 trillion every year. These goods are moved on the 307 billion miles of our nations interconnected transportation network. Including land, air, and sea. The reality is that between pipelines and the transport of Hazardous Materials, if something is manufactured, produced, shipped, heated, or cooled, phmsa had a hand in it. This is an enormous responsibility for one agency. And a fairly small one at that, comprised of less than 600 people spread across the country. As an agency, phmsa operates in a constantly changing environment. Energy innovation and Technology Advances faster than regulation can often keep pace. The u. S. Energy renaissance has strengthened Americas Energy security and Economic Prosperity while simultaneously creating new Transportation Safety challenges. Our goal at phmsa is never to let these changes impact safety. The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented increase in Domestic Energy production. As a kid, i remember the gas crisis in the 70s, and now our nation is the number one producer of oil and gas around the world. And the United States no longer imports the majority of the energy it consumes. Its also created new concerns for consumers, pipeline operators, hazmat shippers, safety paramount across the board, no matter where you are in the supply chain, all of these companies that we regulate, the focus needs to be on safety. An example of the dynamic environment is the advancement of liquefied natural gas. Natural gas is an important element of the president s all of the above Energy Strategy to make america more energy independent. The abundant supply of natural gas in the United States has increased demand for it actually on a National Basis and internationally. And as the industry grows, we have to take a hard look at how the u. S. Produces, uses, and stores l g in this country. Phmsa plays a role in setting Safety Standards in the way the facilities are designed, maintained, and operated. An emphasis on safety, again, is more relevant than ever. Crude oil is also being produced domestically in unprecedented volumes. Yearly, about 5,000 car loads are transported across the United States, and phmsa is working diligently to make sure these products arrive safely at their destinations. In 2015, in collaboration with the federal rail administration, we issued the high hazard flammable rail rule. They designed new requirements designed to reduce the consequences involved trains transported large quantities of Flammable Liquids including crude oil and ethanol by setting new regulations in speed, braking systems, rooting, and tank car design. This comprehensive rule directly addresses the risks associated with this growing and changing marketplace. Advancing the Safe Movement of these products by rail. Our role in the changing Energy Market goes beyond regulating the products that power our cars and homes. Basically, we have been able to fly across the ocean for over a century now, but were now also global consumers. Asking products literally to move around the world with the touch of one button. You may remember the really cool gift last year during the Holiday Season was hoverboards. And in 2015, the embodiment of the hoverboard was the back to the future nostalgia we all had. But i have to tell you that several of the Major International manufacturers of these devices were not compliant with the international Safety Standards for the parts that were actually inside the hoverboards that they had manufactured. Many of the models were found to have faulty batteries, chargers, and cutoff switches that after regular use were not only susceptible to short circuiting but in some cases they were actually spontaneously combusting. It was a collaborative work of both phmsa and the u. S. Customs and Border Patrol as we worked to stop shipments of these faulty goods at the ports. Phmsa issued a safety alert that provided guidance on how hoverboards were to be transported, what their handling should be, the usage, et cetera. And it was the u. S. Consumer Safety Commission that educated the public on the quality and verification of what they actually needed to look for in the product they had purchased, oftentimes online. These collaborative efforts increased overall awareness of the safety risks that was really involved in arguably one of the hottest toys that sold last year. A major objective of phmsas Hazardous MaterialSafety Program is to maintain a global system of Hazardous Materials regulations that enhances the safe and efficient movement of hazmat from oil to batteries that power everything thats we just talked about, including your phone. They literally cross every border, every jurisdiction, and all international boundaries. The u. S. Is a leader in international harmonization. Working to set Global Compliance standards and Risk Identification and development of safety controls and to insure regulatory consistency. It was these safety stands that alerted us to countries and countries all over the world to stop the faulty batteries, stop the use of these faulty batteries that had been used in the hoverboards and really to make sure that they were stopped at the border. Our leadership and collaboration allows billions of International Shipments worldwide to reach their destination safely. So our challenge is to lead within our dynamic environment and create a regulatory atmosphere where innovation can flourish while protecting and advancing the highest priority of the American People which is their safety. We have regulated a series of accidents and incidents that have resulted in heightened detention and scrutiny about the safety of these modes of transportation. Public opinion is clear. There should not be any trade offs as we move products and everyone has a part in protecting the communities and the environment along these transportation routes while advancing the safety of products and services that we all rely on. The natural gas leak in california last fall was the largest methane leak in u. S. History. This failure at this facility, one of the most critical for Energy Supply in the area in Southern California not only had a disruptive effect and an impact on the People Living in and around that area, it brought heightened attention to inconsistencies in the state standards that regulate underground Natural Gas Storage and the real consequence of not investing in our nations infrastructu infrastructure. I toured a canyon this past year with the Energy Secretary and it was clear there were many lessons to be learned. Last month the department of energy and the u. S. Department of transportation announced the creation of an task force. As part of the work on the task force we are moving forward with regulations for underground Natural Gas Storage which will provide minimum operating and Safety Standards for all states and improve oversight for all state facilities. We work on behalf of every american no matter their zip code, economic background, race or gender. Accidents are not a part of acceptable business to the American People nor should they be. That expectation is the foundation of our work and it drives our mission. When i started back in august of 2015 having been nominate by the president and confirmed by the senate, coming in it was extremely clear to me that the mission of the agency is indeed expanding and our work is actually more critical than ever. In the last year alone the agency has made some significant accomplishments. We finalized major regulations for the safety of crude Oil Transportation by rail and to prevent excavation damage, one of the leading threats to Pipeline Safety. We proposed new regulations for hazardo hazardo hazardous liquid and gas pipelines. We have begun working on new requirements outlined in lenl elevation and now were fully engaged in the reauthorize of the Pipeline Safety program currently pending in congress. We are hard at work to engage with the risks our environment presents and as we look to the future we are investing in the agencys growth both in the size and in capabilities. To make us the most Innovative Safety agency in the world, one that leverages our predictive capabilities to enhance safety. To better understand our Current Operations we undertook a critical organizational assessment. We looked at the entire agency to take stock of not only our existing capability to better understand our culture and to develop an Investment Strategy that really is forward looking and looks to the future for what we have to do for Mission Critical capabilities. The reality is that we are in a fundamentally different place from where we were ten years ago when we were originally reorganized and reenacted. We are growing because at the bottom line our mission is growing and with advancements in technology, were going to continue to grow. The administration, the congress and other Key Stakeholders have all recognized and support the importance of our work. In the last two years weve had significant investments alone from congress, both in terms of people and in dollars. Weve grown our workforce by 25 adding and filling 122 new positions in the last year alone. Even with these increases however we anticipate that the scope and complexity of our Safety Mission will continue to outpace our ability to add resources requiring the agency to fundamentally rethink how we use data, information and technology to achieve our goals. While our hiring surge has helped us but more inspectors in the field, our long term strategic framework drives and will drive investment in our organizational capabilities. This new framework is based on the core principals of safety, trust and innovation and reflects our goals of being more predictive and data driven. To that end we are making important organizational changes that will impact the way the American People and our regulated industries interact with us. We are also establishing a cross functional office of planning and an lit ikz that will allow us to better leverage data and develop a more forward looking regulatory agenda, one that looks at the results in a more timely data informed and rigorous way so we can better uniform our role making. Our investments in research and development will enhance our ability to understand and learn from incidents. Because we know that Public Education and Emergency Preparedness is vital to reducing transportation incidents we are expanding our stakeholder outreach and Public Engagement abilities. We are investing in education so we can engage stakeholders lo l locally in their communities and were providing resources to our Emergency Response partners like the training that we just issued thats the framework is a bit of a train the trainer concept. Its called the transportation rail preparedness program. It looks at providing best practices for incidents involving flamable liquids and it gets to Emergency Responders allowing them to represent kate the emergency directly. We have a guide book thats the goto manual for First Responders. They carry it on fire trucks and use it to understand what type of Hazardous Material theyre working with. It really does help Emergency Responders in a very immediate way by learning immediately how to manage hazardous transportation incidents within the first 30 minutes which is critical. It will transform us as an agency. It will enable us to better leverage data and research to develop a more proactive regulatory agenda and it will ensure meaningful and early engagement with stakeholders and enhance Emergency Preparedness around the country. It will establish processes to develop rules and it will empower us to consider the full scope of regulatory and nonregulatory options and enhance our own capabilities as well as provide Additional Program consistency. We are looking to better structure ourselves to become the next generation safety agency. These changes impact you. You should want a regulator thats informed, predictive and we want to be that regulator. This provides us with the foundation to that exactly that. And as we invest in ourselves to advance safety, we support smart Strategic Investments in industry to advance safety as well. Advancing the implementation of a Safety Management safety and a strong Safety Culture is the next step in continuous Safety Improvement for americas hazardous strategy. Safety Management Systems integrate modern safety concepts into proactive processes creating Standard Operating Procedures that are grounded in the advantagesment of safety. As a part of a companys operational structure, sms takes into account the culture of an organization alongside its systems, rules and procedures and it really does account for that human behavior, that human factor in Decision Making and really looking to mitigate risk and advance safety. The structure of sms provides organizations greater insight into their operational environment. It requires leaders to champion safety and allows employees at all levels to raise safety concerns. This means investing in our predictive analytical capabiliti capabilities, improving procedures and enhancing performance based standards. For industry this means creating a culture that allows nonpunitive reporting and adopting a platform to share and analyze data in a no fault environment so that the industry as a whole can identify emerging trends and address ricks before an accident occurs. This can be done while still protecting proprietary interests. Only when a major cultural where we know if we have to actually walk the walk if were going to talk the talk, only then will we actually truly see a marked improvement in safety. Yes, it really is an investment. Its an investment of industrys time and money and of ours as the regulators. We really need to focus and look at internal capabilities as well external capabilities, but the payoff is really enormous and it really is the next level of safety that needs to be invested in. Look at the av ash industry. There were an unprecedented number of accidents in the 1990s and recognizing there was a problem the Aviation Community to include the manufacturers, pilots, carriers, regulators, they created a partnership and began to share data. Inspection and repair data, pilot logs and all different sorts of data. They chose the collaborative framework to partner, securing an independent thirdparty to analyze data and identify emerging risks. Ultimately changing the Safety Culture and resulting in Management Systems that truly did enhanceover all safety. Thankfully the Aviation Industry has not seen a major crash with loss of life in almost 18 year. Passengers know when they get on a plane theyre not just trusting the pilot to get from point a to point b, theyre trusting the entire supply chain. T the pipeline industry is learning from other modes of transportation. This encampases the key aspects of a Key Management system and involves all pipeline operators. We are now urging industry to implement Safety Management systems purposefully and really tackle it head on. All three versions of our pending pipeline reauthorization bills contain language that would establish a working group that would consider a no fault information sharing system to encourage the sharing of safety data with both regulators and the industry so Lessons Learned to can be identified and we can work to address emerging risks. Its time for the industry to leern into this commitment and for individual operators to change their Safety Cultures and adopt new Management Systems. This is truly the next level of safety for the pipeline and Hazardous Waste independenteries. Its our mission to make the American Public confident in the movement of Hazardous Materials so they can use them and never have to think about the process that got them there. As an agency we are in a time of growth, growth in opportunity, growth in mission, growth in size and theres no part of our agency in which we feel complace complacent. We are investing in all of our Core Functions to prepare ourselves to deliver long term. Our entire agency, pipeline and hazmat, must be prepared to respond to our changing environment and we have the team to do it. One of the most profound results of our organizational assessmentened a one that im actually extremely proud of cantfies the dedication of our workforce. Our almost 600 employees are dedicated public serve ants who feel a personal responsibility for your safety each and every single day. Theyre an Incredible Group to lead and im inspired every day by their drive and i share their incredible commitment. In the beginning of my career when i worked at the national Transportation Safety board my very first accident launch was the jet flight 592 crash in miami. The aircraft went down ten minutes after takeoff claiming the lives of everyone aboard. I stood in the middle of the everglades with the team looking for answers. What became clear was that the cause of the accident was not mechanicalal. Expired oxygen containers were placed in the cargo hold of this plane without proper packaging or labeling. The investigation revealed to these oxygen containers packed in boxes with only a layer of bubble wrap started a fire and produced a Chemical Reaction that allowed this fire to sustain, burn, explode and ultimately destroy the plane. This experience was foundational to my experience of safety as more than an idea, but rather as a process that can be implemented, developed, learned and continuously improved and there could not be a clearer introduction into how critical proper hazardous transportation material is to our overall greater safety landscape. Ive witnessed firsthand the devastation that accidents in transportation can cause, both the l the loss of life and the lasting impacts to families and communities. So when i was asked to serve as the admin straighter i was not only honored i understand the task of how critical it is that this agency be prepared to tackle todays challenges and our future challenges. I hope i have left about you the same sense of urgency and optimism that i feel. Thank you very much for your attention and i appreciate the opportunity to join you today. Thank you very much. That was a wonderful overview of all that you do and i appreciate you taking the time do that. I neglected at the beginning we have a slight change in plans with. We have to let the admin straight ergo at 2 30 so ill keep my part short. I did want to say as someone who was married to a First Responder and deeply connected to that community, very much appreciate the Additional Guidance that youve given to that community in dealing with safety ins dentist. I never thought i would be involved in a conversation that included wd40 and whipped cream at the same time so that was interesting too. Suh noted a couple of times that you guys are in the midst of getting a reauthorization and i hope that goes well, but you have a large agenda on your plate and anybody thats involved in the Energy Sector knows you cant take a break from all the things youre doing to enact large change so its a very tricky and complicated thing that many people in our industry have to do both from a private sector standpoint and on sort of the regulator and public side of the equation. You laid out a lot of things. What are the key things that you need to be able to get to to be that predictive sort of forward looking agency that youre looking to create . Thanks. I think that i think one of the things thats most critical here is were looking to make some key organizational changes that do impact the structure and what were looking at doing is creating an office of planning and an littics which is what i talked about. That office is designed and the thought behind it is to really focus on three main areas. One, strategic planning. Two, data and an littic bzs and three, Economic Analysis. As you take data and we collect an enormous amount of data across the board, what you want to be able to do is make sure that youre using that data to uniform your rule making and make sure we have the right regulatory body in place and that its also uniforming our Economic Analysis so our rule making is as informed as possible and its as consistent as possible because were taking resources from across the agency, leveraging those capabilities and applying those best practices internal to the agency and bringing in some a added folks to address some of those areas. So thats really the crux of it. Will you be looking to make some of that analysis and data sort of public and sort of well understood because we repeatedly in the sessions that we hold here hear from people about how data is really sort of the currency of trust for them. Its really enabling them to have good stakeholders and you mentioned that was a big part of what you need to do. It is. I think its a big transparency factor. We collect an enormous amount of data. A lot of it is posted on our website already and we try to be as transparent as possible. That said there is opportunity for us to actually display that data, visualize it and analyze it and assess it and inform not only our stakeholders, but ourselves as to what were finding and how that might be better used for regulatory purposes, but also identifying risk. You mentioned you have a lot of things sort of on your plate, but you did mention the Natural Gas Task force which we were particularly interested in, setting minimum standards in terms of Natural Gas Storage facilities. I know the canyon has been on the minds of people and as california heads into the summertime figuring out how theyre going to deal with their Energy Demand needs. Can you tell us a little bit more about the broader activities of that task force and what you hope to gain from it in addition to the minimum standards. I think a lot of the work in looking alt the infrastructure here in the United States is something theres a lot of interest in but not a huge amount of understanding. So can you talk about what the tasks force hopes to achieve. I had the chance to be out in the canyon and it was really quite informative on a number of levels. I think one of the things that really struck me in particular was it brought home yet again this concern about aging infra tru structure that we have and theres been a lot of work done both in the industry and by the states to look at underground Natural Gas Storage for decades, but i really do feel like we have an opportunity now to set some minimum federal standards to look at the regulation of underground Natural Gas Storage, addressing potentially some of the concerns on aging infrastructure, recognizing there are very vastly different gee logical formations that are out there, but recognizing a lot of the work thats been done accounts for that and we have a way forward. I think theres going to be more Lessons Learned. The great thing about the department of energy being at the table is theyre lev ranling all the work from the National Labs so youve got multiple different labs at least i think five different National Labs that are involved in this task force where theyre collecting data, theyre conducting work shops around the country to better understand not only the operational content of underground Natural Gas Storage, but some of the gee logic featur features. So youre bringing in a lot of sbert tease and theyre helping to uniform our rule making and the potential next steps we have to look at. Do you have a time line established for this work. Its fairly aggressive. I think its six months. Thats what i thought. I didnt want to bring it up. No pressure. So other work that you have out there pending is a natural Gas TransmissionPipeline Safety rule and then you Just Announced something on lng safety work shops can you talk a little bit what youre looking for in sort of Public Comment and participation in both of those items. So we are we published our nprm on Gas Transmission. It is a very comprehensive rule making the agency has been working on fo are a lor a long. Very proud that were able to publish it. We put out an initial 60day review period and were looking to make sure we host some forums around the actually content so that people have a chance to come and share some comments directly with us. Weve been trying to host schedule some webinars so we can collect feedback. I realize its a dense rule. Its over 500 pages. We are looking for some comprehensive comments to come back. So those of you who are interested, i encourage you to submit your comments and please share them with us and then well look to actually hold an Advisory Committee meeting and resolve any outstanding issues through that public and transparent process and look for a final rule on Gas Transmission and same thing on the hazardous rule. I promised to open it up. Im going to take them in threes so we get through all of them. If you could weve got a couple of ground rules. Please wait for the microphone. We are being web cast and aired and then also name and affiliation please if you could and then question in the form of a question. Well start with mitzy and go right here. Im so thrilled to have heard your story because to be quite honest i didnt know it existed and my concern is that American Public doesnt understand what youre doing. Just think how angry the public is because they dont have stories they can understand. So i would i have a whole series of things i want to ask, one about maintenance, that was not a word i heard you use and i think explain the process and the other a question of fracking but i would suggest you set up some contests for people to write these stories for non, experts, put them online, they have to be visual, for students to learn this and they can then educate their parents, but everybodys overwhelmed what it is we have to know about, learn and nobody has time. So the question is how do you make it clear, concise, compelling and everyone caring because by god what youre doing is important, but our whole infrastructure is a mess and they dont even discuss that, whether its roads or bridges. Theyre going to close Memorial Bridge for five years and nobody thinks about what will be the traffic con guessing in washington a washington. This is a piece part of a bigger story. Good question on communication to the public. Good suggestions thank you. Im jenny mandle with energy wire. I was interested to hear you say you want to change the way you work with data. Can you tell us more about what it is you want to do using data and how thats different from other regulatory agencies. We do a lot of work already. Obviously data is our bread and butter. The question is how can we better organize ourselves internally. Weve conducted an assessment of our data alone. We engaged oakridge National Labs to identify if theres any gaps in our Data Collection and look to see how we might actually address those data gaps. Moving forward what we would do differently is look how we can see how we can better structure ourselves to use the data we have, making sure its up to date and then also matching that very well with the with our Economic Analysis so data is actually better informing our Economic Analysis. Oftentimes we do that as a regulatory agency, but the question is how can we do it better and what were doing is bringing additional expertise to the table to help organize and instruct structure and streamline that process. Will you need any additional Data Collection capabilities . One of the things we were talking about ahead of time is we do a lot of work with the Energy Information administration and they found small tweaks in the way theyve been collecting information or better synchization with how they keep up with whats changing in the industry which has been the challenge for them. Do you have similar types of collection and or types of data issues that youre going to face. One of the other areas we have opportunities in as you know we conduct inspections for interstate transmission or or interstate opportunities. The states do a lot of work on the intrastate side. We have an enormous amount of data that the states collect and being able to have i. T. Systems that talk to one another, were looking to further invest in a platform to make that information sharing become a little bit more real between the states and us as the federal regulator so that were sharing some of that operations, maintenance, inspection data a little bit more directly, but also its another platform to also help the states, some of them are still looking to invest in their own procedures themselves. So if were able to help them, it also helps the federal regulator and bottom line is we get a much better picture of the overall operation of any given pipeline of any Given Company if were able to have that data from that inspection process. Nick snowworth. It sounds as if you have a lot on your plate already and also that your main thrust as far as methane emissions is concerned is in Natural Gas Storage. What are you finding in the states which have regulated this up to now and do you expect to have a lot of conversation with them about this . Thank you. Absolutely. Weve had over the course of time an enormous amount of conversation with the states. The states actually participated i think there were upwards of ten states that participated. Some of the ten most key states with some of the largest underground enveloreserve capac their states, they participated in the recommended the standard setting committees that api published last fall. You had state coordination and every day we work with the states. We have an entire state program that work with the states and how we invest and provide grant making money so they can actually carry out their program on behalf of the entire system. In particular with regard to underground Natural Gas Storage i think theres been a collaborative atmosphere over the last two decades worth of information study and sharing and now with the recommended practices that have been developed the question now is how do we best set minimum Safety Standards that could be national in nature and recognizing that any state could of course go beyond those minimum Safety Standards and advance any additional Safety Measures they would want to undertake that would be specific to their particular operating atmosphere. We have two more and then well come back here. We have about five minutes left so maybe if i can take all four quickly but you have to be quick. I want to see, are you issuing like a notice of proposed rule making for these underground gas storage standards and if it is a notice are you trying to finalize it later this year also. Hold on. Raise your hands if you had one just so she can find you. Thank you. You talked about no fault data reporting. Could you talk a little bit more about what you mean by that and nonpunitive reporting of data. You have one more in the back and one in the front. I promise we can make it. There are regions of the country that say theyre in need of pipeline structure and just last month a leak in the key stone pipeline went undetected. Why should we have any confidence they can effect new gas storage. The last one up front here. Sara smith, reporting with s p Global Market intelligence. With respect to the gas storage, i know a lot of the bills will give you emergency authority. Is it considerable you would wait to get those passed and ac normal rule making, a more lengthy process or is the rule making process preferable to Emergency Order Authority . Thanks. We got four good ones. Ill start with underground Natural Gas Storage. To be a little more clear. So, we are working as part of our work on the task force that we are coleading with the department of energy. We are really focused on that rule making capability. One of those standards we can put in place. We are working now to define those and the form of that rule making would be literally a rule making and we hope to be we are advancing that and defining it now. We are not waiting for legislation to move forward and that, i think, is a Good Foundation. As i mentioned before, there is a Good Foundation on the work thats been done around underground natural gas star onlg. We have good data and we are looking to leverage the data that the National Labs are analyzing now to further inform our role making moving forward. Its a good effort across the board. Its very collaborative and i think we have a Good Relationship to share. Lets see. No fault reporting. So, i think, no fault reporting is looking at how can we make sure that one of the things under, if you look at any kind of Management System in a particular Safety Management system. I used to work at the faa. One of the things, i was there during the 1990s. There were a number of accidents occurring at that point and time. One of the thing that is really advanced safety was this, not only the adoption of a Safety Management system, but the agreement, the partnership, the framework that the industry, the regulator, the operators, everybody came together and kind of literally pulled together a partnership and understood what those requirements would be. They had Statutory Authority to do so. It really propelled the next level of safety to share information with an independent third party. That independent third party is really the dataing regator, data collector and able to identify, take away, strip away the operators name. If i look at these ten operators and start to slice and dice data, what im looking at is identifying emerging risk. Right . So, as you start to lineup maintenance data, you are identifying where is that next risk factor coming from . Its looking at individual operators, its trends. Identifying areas that start to line up in a way that you can then address, both from an operations and the third partying regator shares this information with the regulator et cetera. This is not a punitive process, it is a safety process. You are identifying it and addressing it so you are not in a position of waiting for an accident or incident to look for trends. Thats the concept of how it might operate. Other modes of transportation also have it, federal rail has the capability of doing this as well. Certainly, its been an initiative that secretary fox has taken on globally for the entire department. So, its a good way forward. In terms of safety, i think i was addressing your question as well with regard to some of our existing pipeline that is out there right now. One of the things we look to do is make sure that our inspection process is as rigorous as possible. So, as we learned from incidents, regardless of where they are and how they are, actually up in pennsylvania on sunday, a pipeline, there was a gas explosion. Really looked to understand what happened, do a root cause analysis, look to figure out what thats going to lead to in terms of improvements in safety that we have to make as a regulator. But, again, the overall effort is to be as rigorous on the front end so that we are using data to inform our inspection process, to inform our rule making, Economic Analysis, everything. All of this is a much more rigorous way forward for the agency. Its a good investment, i think. Bottom line is, we are never going to have enough people to actually cover the miles that we need to. We actually need to leverage the information, the data that we have and our capabilities in a much more exponential fashion and identify the risk and address it. Well, we promised we would get you out of here on time. The only way you will come back is if he live up to that promise. I want to thank you very much for sharing some of what your work is. We can all admit, it is an ambitious agenda and important one at that. We hope you will come back and share your progress. Thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Here are programs to watch for. This saturday and sunday at 1 30 p. M. Eastern, book tv is at the 13th black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. We cover Panel Discussions on hip hop and literature with michael eric dyson. And black writers in the digital age. At 7 30 p. M. 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