The National Pipeline Mapping System -- Identifying Pipeline
Segments that can Impact HCAs
www.npms.rspa.dot.gov
Steve Fischer Sam HallGIS Manager GIS AnalystUS DOT/Office of Pipeline Safety US DOT/Office of Pipeline
SafetyDPS - 11 DPS - 11 400 7th Street, S.W. 400 7th Street, S.WWashington, DC 20590 Washington, DC 20590202.366.6267 [email protected] [email protected]
What is the NPMS?
A GIS created by OPS in cooperation with government and industry
Natural gas transmission and hazardous liquid pipelines; LNG facilities
Geospatial data, attribute data, and metadata
A voluntary initiative
The NPMS Model
Repositories National Repository in Alexandria, Virginia 14 state repositories:
Alabama, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Washington
New repositories are solicited through the Commerce Business Daily (CBD)
NPMS Repositories
WA
NJ
LA
AL
VAKY
IL
TX
OK
KSCA
MNME
ME
NationalRepository
CT
TX
NPMS Repositories (cont.)
State repositories collect data for pipelines within their state boundaries.
The National Repository collects data for states without repositories and incorporates state repository data into a seamless national dataset.
The NPMS Model (cont.)
Standards Operator Standards
describe how operators can participate in the NPMS
Repository Standards describe the operations of the National
Repository and the state repositories Both sets of standards may be
downloaded from the NPMS website.
Status of the NPMS
As of July 1, 2001, the NPMS contains:
86% of hazardous liquid pipelines 42% of natural gas transmission
pipelines 56% of all pipelines being collected
The Role of the NPMS at OPS
Integrity Management Program IMP - Rulemaking
Pipeline Integrity Management in High Consequence Areas [Hazardous Liquid Operators with 500 or More Miles] Objective: To improve pipeline safety
through new requirements for testing, integrated evaluation of risk information, improved federal/state oversight of integrity management plans, and enhanced communication to communities.
High Consequence Areas
Key Feature: IMP provides protection for OPS-defined High Consequence Areas (HCA’s).
HCA’s are geographic areas where the consequences of a pipeline release would be most adverse.
High Consequence Areas (cont.)
HCA’s are defined as: Environmentally Unusually Sensitive
Areas (USA’s) Drinking Water and Ecological
Populated Areas High Population Areas and Other Populated
Areas Commercially Navigable Waterways
HCA Data
Unusually Sensitive Areas Drinking Water -- current states -- CA, IL,
KS, LA, MO, MT, NM, OK, TX, and WY Current states contain approximately 70-75%
of hazardous liquid pipeline mileage Goal to complete Drinking Water USAs by
February 2002 Available for download from the NPMS Web
site
HCA Data (con’t)
Unusually Sensitive Areas Ecological -- current states -- CA, CO, DE,
IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, SD, TX, VT, and WY
Current states contain approximately 85-90% of hazardous liquid pipeline mileage
Goal to complete Drinking Water USAs by February 2002
Operator must request the data through OPS
HCA Data (con’t)
Populated Areas High Population Areas (HPAs)
1990 US Census defined Urbanized Areas 2000 US Census Urbanized Areas available in
3rd quarter 2001 HPAs updated by January 2002 (if Census
completes Urbanized Areas by anticipated date)
Available for download from the NPMS Web site
HCA Data (con’t)
Populated Areas Other Populated Areas (OPAs)
1990 US Census defined Census Designated Places (CDPs)
2000 US Census CDPs available in 3rd quarter 2001 (if Census completes CDPs by anticipated date)
OPAs updated by January 2002 Available for download from the NPMS Web site
HCA Data (con’t)
Commercially Navigable Waterways (CNWs)
National Waterway Network created by various agencies including US Coast Guard and US Army Corps of Engineers
Identifies only waterways that support large commercial traffic
Available for download from the NPMS Web site
Additional Data Layers (non-IMP)
Additional data currently available: Earthquake, hurricane, flood, and
landslide hazard indexes State/County boundaries U.S. DOT BTS National
Transportation Atlas Data
Data Analysis Optionswww.npms.rspa.dot.gov
Data download for use with operator in-house GIS
GIS-lite - an alternative solution for operators without GIS capabilities
OPS developed Internet mapping application
Option 1 - Data Download
Option 2 - GIS-Lite -- A Lightweight GIS Viewer
GIS-Lite
System Requirements Windows Edition
ArcExplorer 2 works on Windows 98/2000/NT operating systems.
Java Edition ArcExplorer 3.1 can be installed on a Windows
NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Solaris, or AIX operating system. ArcExplorer 3.1 works with ArcSDE 3.x, ArcSDE 8.0.2, and ArcSDE 8.1.
Option 3 - NPMS Internet Mapping Application
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