16 Tex. Admin. Code § 8.310 - Hazardous Liquids and Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Public Education and Liaison
(a) Liaison
activities required. Each operator of a hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide
pipeline or pipeline facilities or the operator's designated representative
shall communicate and conduct liaison activities at intervals not exceeding 15
months, but at least once each calendar year with fire, police, and other
appropriate public emergency response officials. The liaison activities are
those required by 49 CFR Part 195.402(c)(12) . These liaison activities shall
be conducted in person, except as provided by this section.
(b) Meetings in person. The operator or the
operator's representative may conduct required community liaison activities as
provided by subsection (c) of this section only if the operator or the
operator's representative has completed one of the following efforts to conduct
a community liaison meeting in person with the officials:
(1) mailing a written request for a meeting
in person to the appropriate officials by certified mail, return receipt
requested;
(2) sending a request
for a meeting in person to the appropriate officials by facsimile transmission;
or
(3) making one or more telephone
calls or e-mail message transmissions to the appropriate officials to request a
meeting in person.
(4) At any time
the operator or operator's representative makes contact with the appropriate
officials and schedules a meeting in person, no further attempts to make
contact under this section are necessary. However, if a scheduled meeting does
not take place, the operator or operator's representative shall make an effort
to re-schedule the community liaison meeting in person with the officials using
one of the methods in paragraphs (1) - (3) of this subsection before proceeding
to arrange a conference call pursuant to subsection (c) of this
section.
(c) Alternative
methods. If the operator or operator's representative cannot arrange a meeting
in person after complying with subsection (b) of this section, the operator or
the operator's representative shall conduct community liaison activities by one
of the following methods:
(1) holding a
telephone conference with the appropriate officials; or
(2) delivering the community liaison
information required to be conveyed by certified mail, return receipt
requested.
(d) Records.
The operator shall maintain records documenting compliance with the liaison
activities required by this section. Records of attendance and acknowledgment
of receipt by the emergency response officials shall be retained for five years
from the date of the event that is commemorated by the record. Records of
certified mail and/or telephone transmissions undertaken in compliance with
subsections (b) and (c) of this section satisfy the record-keeping requirements
of this subsection.
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