Landowner's Guide to Pipelines

The Pipeline Safety Trust received a TAG Grant from PHMSA to produce a guide for landowners living near pipelines.

You can download the guide by clicking here (pdf)

As part of this effort, we also conducted a survey of landowners to see what information they need, what their concerns are and how to best get that information to them. You can see those results by clicking here.

Information relating to easement negotiations and eminent domain was assembled with the assistance of a variety of people across the country. Links to eminent domain material for specific states provided by members of the Owners' Counsel of America (www.ownerscounsel.com) are below.

The final report to PHMSA on this effort can be downloaded by clicking here

South Carolina: Keith M. Babcock
www.pipelinesafetytrust.org/library/docs/southcarolina.pdf

Tennessee: J. Kevin Walsh
www.pipelinesafetytrust.org/library/docs/tennessee.pdf
and
www.pipelinesafetytrust.org/library/docs/TNArticle.pdf

Texas: H. Dixon Montague
www.pipelinesafetytrust.org/library/docs/texas.pdf

Utah: Kevin E. Anderson
www.pipelinesafetytrust.org/library/docs/utah.pdf

Virginia: Christi A. Cassel
www.pipelinesafetytrust.org/library/docs/virginia.pdf

Want More Information?

Pipeline safety information for individual states
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/States.htm

Information for local governments regarding planning near pipelines http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/pipa/LandUsePlanning.htm

Glossary of pipeline terms
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/glossary/index.htm

National pipeline incident data
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/safety/PSI.html

Information on individual pipeline operators
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/operator/Operatorlist.html