DIMP/SHRIMP Presented at Texas Gas Association Conference
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On Tuesday, June 15 APGA Vice President, Operations John Erickson spoke at the Texas Gas Association’s Operations and Management Conference in Corpus Christi, Texas covering requirements of the Distribution Integrity Management Programs (DIMP) rule and the SHRIMP program. He also updated attendees on the status of several EPA greenhouse gas regulations that will affect municipal gas systems. The DIMP rule, he emphasized, will be perhaps the most significant pipeline safety rule since the federal government began regulating pipeline safety in 1970. Operators have until August 2, 2011 to develop a written DIMP plan meeting the requirements of the rule. The crux of the rule is that each system must evaluate eight potential threats to pipeline safety and determine if any require additional actions above and beyond what is required by pipeline safety regulations to minimize these threats. The results of these analyses must be documented in the written DIMP Plan. He described the SHRIMP on-line DIMP development tool that the APGA Security and Integrity Foundation (SIF) have developed to assist operators to develop these plans. To date over 200 systems have registered at www.apgasif.org to use this tool when it is released in July. He demonstrated how SHRIMP uses a question and answer format to complete the DIMP plan customized for each user. SHRIMP is free to systems smaller than 1,000 meters and low cost to other systems. For further information please contact John Erickson, APGA Vice President, Operations 202-464-2742, ext 1002 or jerickson@apga.org.
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