Pipeline Safety: The Office of Pipeline Safety Is Changing How It Oversees the Pipeline Industry

[摘要] A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Transportation Office of Pipeline Safety's (OPS) performance in regulating pipeline safety, focusing on: (1) the extent of major pipeline accidents from 1989 through 1998; (2) OPS' implementation of the 1996 Accountable Pipeline Safety and Partnership Act's risk management demonstration program; (3) OPS' inspection and enforcement efforts since the act's implementation; and (4) OPS' responsiveness to recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board and to statutory requirements designed to improve pipeline safety."

[发布日期] 2000-05-15 [发布机构] United States. General Accounting Office.

[关键词] Government accountability -- United States.;transportation;pipeline safety;letter report