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Thanks,
@SecretaryPete
, for the shoutout at the
@TransportDems
hearing underscoring PHMSA's work to carry out the requirements in the PIPES Act of 2020—including one of the busiest 18 months on record strengthening pipeline safety regulations called for in the law
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Thank you,
@SecretaryPete
, for the shoutout last night on
@JimmyKimmelLive
! 😎
Team PHMSA is a proud
@USDOT
agency working to protect the American people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and hazardous materials.
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.
@SecretaryPete
introduced PHMSA’s own Hazardous Matt to the world on the
@latelateshow
!
Learn more about Hazardous Matt and our “Check the Box” safety initiative here →
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Thank you
@SecretaryPete
for meeting with
@PHMSA_DOT
staff to learn about how we ensure the safe transportation of energy and hazardous materials through 2.8 million miles of pipelines and 1.2 million shipments every day for the American people.
#TeamPHMSA
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Happy Pi Day! Our engineers come from all backgrounds and are bound by the common goal of protecting communities and the environment.
We need more engineers to help ensure the safety of over 3.4 million miles of pipelines under our watch. 👇
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.
@SecretaryPete
is right! Do your part to protect delivery and postal workers this holiday season by properly labeling and marking all packages that contain hazardous materials.
Learn more about PHMSA’s “Check the Box” safety initiative here:
When the pandemic hit, Americans started ordering more packages to their doorsteps. E-commerce deliveries don't come from the cloud - they come from workers like Maurice.
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Thanks to
@POTUS
's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we’re announcing $196M to repair community-owned natural gas pipes: 37 projects across 19 states. This first-of-its-kind program will protect the public from high-risk pipes, limit methane emissions, and help w/ energy costs.
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Pipes are infrastructure. Pass it on.
Let’s be clear: there’s a lot more than roads and bridges that make up our infrastructure.
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Happy National Safe Digging Month!
Don’t forget to call 811 a few days before any digging project so that underground utilities can be marked on your property.
This small step goes a long way towards keeping everyone safe!
Visit to learn more.
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In today’s White House press briefing,
@SecretaryPete
explained PHMSA’s efforts to help restore Colonial Pipeline service.
Watch here ↴
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Ahead of Saturday’s 811 night at
@Nationals
Park, here’s a message from
@SecretaryPete
on the importance of practicing safe digging.
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Happy National 811 Day! PHMSA reminds everyone to contact 811 a few days before any digging project so utilities can be marked on your property. Join the fun today and help spread the word about safe digging! For more info visit
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Thank you
@SecretaryPete
for the shout out in last week’s committee hearing.
PHMSA is not the most well-known agency, but our work has a tremendous impact on the safety of the American public.
Learn more about us and our safety mission here →
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Sending a gift this holiday season? 🎁🎄
You might be shipping a hazardous material without even knowing it🤯
Visit for a full list of commonly used hazardous materials and instructions on how to safely ship these items✅📦
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Today we had visitors at
@USDOT
's HQ Bring Our Kids to Work Day.
@SecretaryPete
and Deputy Administrator Tristan Brown introduced Hazardous Matt and the kids got to learn about all the awesome things about our safety mission! 📷
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Undeclared hazmat shipments put transportation workers, emergency responders, and the public at risk.
Aerosols, lithium batteries, and paints are the most common items in undeclared hazmat incidents.
Learn how to declare and properly ship hazmat at:
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Listen to this message from
@SecretaryPete
about the 2024 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)!
#ERG2024
#GotMyERG
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Today,
@SecretaryPete
was joined by PHMSA Dep. Admin. Brown and
@USDOT
investigators, inspecting the failure of legacy hazmat tank cars that are scheduled to be phased out by 2029 - in 2015 DOT proposed phasing them out by 2025, which the Secretary has renewed calls for.
This morning I’m in East Palestine, Ohio, to see the site of the Norfolk Southern derailment, hear updates from investigators, and meet first responders. USDOT will continue its work to ensure safety and accountability.
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The real
@TIME
Person of the Year, Hazardous Matt!
Learn how to properly ship hazardous materials at
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Looking for an internship this summer? Apply to the
@USDOT
Secretarial Internship Program! All applications must be received by April 5th.
Learn more information here →
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In yesterday’s hearing with
@TransportDems
and
@TransportGOP
,
@SecretaryPete
was asked about the implementation progress of the bipartisan PIPES Act of 2020.
Listen to what he had to say about PHMSA’s focus on environmental impacts, new staffing, transparency, and more ⤵️
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Today, PHMSA announced a new rule requiring automatic/remotely controlled shut-off valves on natural gas, CO2, and hazardous liquid pipelines. This rule strengthens protections for workers and communities, and reduces super-polluting methane emissions.
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PHMSA’s “Check the Box” mascot, Hazardous Matt, is on the loose!
Learn more about our “Check the Box” safety initiative here →
Always remember to
#CheckTheBox
before shipping hazardous materials.
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Today we announced a proposal to strengthen safety requirements for more than 2.3 million miles of gas distribution pipelines. These changes aim to prevent dangerous over-pressurization incidents—protecting communities and reducing methane emissions.
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Deputy Administrator
@BrownTristanh
threw out the first pitch at tonight’s
@Nationals
game as part of PHMSA’s efforts to promote safe digging.
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Today DA Brown joined
@RepRichardNeal
,
@IBEW
members, and reps of
@SenMarkey
+
@SenWarren
to announce $21.3M in funding from
@POTUS
' Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to reduce methane emissions and protect communities from leaky natural gas pipes.
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How to avoid damaging natural gas lines and other underground utilities while digging (including with your shovel!)
#AlaskaEarthquake
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We got PHestive at
@USDOT
HQ for our annual holiday gathering to honor the hard work of more than 600 employees and hundreds of contractors that spend every day keeping Americans safe from hazmat transportation!
Happy holidays to you and your loves ones! ❄️ 🎄 🎅
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Join us next week on Friday, August 11 at
@Nationals
Park to celebrate National 811 Day!
Use the code 811DOT23 and get your tickets here:
And a reminder from
@SecretaryPete
on why practicing safe digging is important 👇
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This week at
@COP26
,
@POTUS
announced new pipeline rules from
@EPA
and
@USDOT
/
@PHMSA_DOT
—part of the whole-of-government effort to reduce methane emissions, mitigate climate change, and support new, good paying union jobs.
Watch here ↴
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Today PHMSA issued an advisory to all pipeline, underground storage, and LNG facility operators underscoring requirements in the PIPES Act of 2020 to have plans in place by December 2021 to minimize methane emissions and repair or replace legacy pipelines.
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August 11 is National
#811DAY
! Large or small, EVERY digging project requires a call to 811 to mark underground utilities & avoid damage
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This week, Hazardous Matt and our staff attended the International Beauty Show in New York City to inform attendees on how to properly ship beauty products like nail polish and perfume, which are classified as hazardous materials.
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Today PHMSA announced it is taking steps to strengthen safety oversight of CO2 pipelines. These actions stem from PHMSA’s investigation into a CO2 pipeline failure in Satartia, Mississippi.
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Today PHMSA announced a final rule that harmonizes U.S. laws for transporting hazardous materials with international standards. This will help save consumers money, improve safety, and speed up the movement of goods essential to everyday life.
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Stop!✋🛑 Do not throw that lithium battery in the trash!🗑️ Doing so is a major fire hazard and can cause harm to human health or the environment.🔥 🚫
Follow these tips instead 👇
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Today we issued a Safety Advisory pressing rail tank car owners & shippers of flammable liquids to upgrade their fleets to the DOT-117 tank car—the newest design. This is part of our ongoing efforts to advance rail safety.
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Today in Norwich, CT we awarded $10M from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to protect another underserved community from leaky natural gas pipes, & reduce methane & energy costs. Dep. Admin. Brown was joined by
@RepJoeCourtney
,
@LGSusanB
, local officials +
@UAPipeTrades
&
@IBEW
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April is National Safe Digging Month!
Before any digging project 🕳️⛏️, make sure to contact 📞
#811
a few days in advance to have underground utilities marked on your property 🚩.
Help keep everyone safe! Visit to learn more.
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Over the next few weeks, PHMSA will announce award winners and funding amounts. Learn more here:
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Today we announced $10M for the City of Milton from
@POTUS
' Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to reduce methane emissions and protect the Milton community from leaky natural gas pipes.
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Happy National Safe Digging Month!
PHMSA encourages everyone to call 811 a few days before any digging project. This simple act helps prevent damage to underground utilities, which can cause harm to your neighbors & the environment.
Visit for more info.
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For more than 50 years, the Emergency Response Guidebook has helped firefighters and emergency personnel respond to hazmat incidents. PHMSA updates and publishes the safety resource every four years, with the e-versions available next week.
#PHMSAFactFriday
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In line with the
@WhiteHouse
’s Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, PHMSA will soon begin enforcement of Section 114 of the PIPES Act of 2020 requiring pipeline operators to minimize methane leaks and emissions.
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Today we announced over $64 million in grants to support state-level pipeline and underground natural gas storage safety efforts. This funding will help protect the environment and keep communities safe from pipeline incidents.
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As
@SecretaryPete
noted last week, PHMSA is hiring its first ever Senior Advisor for Environmental Policy and Analysis to assess the environmental, social, economic, and statistical impacts of new regulatory proposals.
Help spread the word & apply here→
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Today PHMSA announced it is awarding nearly $100 million in grants to states, territories, and tribes to help enhance community-level pipeline and hazardous materials safety programs.
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Today PHMSA announced a new rule that improves safety and environmental protections for over 300,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines—helping save lives, avoid costly disruptions to gas service, and strengthen our supply chains.
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Today, Dep. Admin. Brown joined
@RepDonDavis
and local officials from Rocky Mount, and Wilson, NC to award the first 2 grants—out of 130 to be announced in the coming weeks across 26 states—totaling nearly $400M for communities to fix leak-prone gas pipes.
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Saturday is 811 night at
@Nationals
Park! ⚾
Join PHMSA staff before the game to learn about safe digging and watch Deputy Administrator
@BrownTristanh
throw out the first pitch.
We hope to see you there!
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will invest $1 billion to modernize and repair natural gas pipelines, which will create good-paying jobs, make communities safer, and help fight the climate crisis by reducing methane emissions.
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Yesterday we announced $25 million in grant funding opportunities for firefighters and other emergency responders, researchers, and local communities to ensure safety from pipeline and hazmat incidents. 👇
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Today, PHMSA issued a proposed civil penalty of nearly $1 million to Colonial Pipeline Company for multiple probable violations of Federal pipeline safety regulations stemming from an inspection of the company’s Control Room Management procedures.
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Every day, 1.4 million hazardous materials shipments are safely delivered in the U.S. These include energy products, medicine, and other essential goods. PHMSA is proud to support America’s hazardous materials transportation system, the largest on Earth.
#HazmatWeek
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Today PHMSA announced it is awarding over $32 million in grants to states, territories, and tribes to support first responders and community-level hazardous materials safety programs.
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PHMSA to publish interim rulemaking for transport of lithium batteries
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PHMSA is proud of our team’s many contributions to
@USDOT
's new progress report announced by
@SecretaryPete
.
Learn more at
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PHMSA assisted Colonial Pipeline to get Line 4 up and running yesterday on a manual basis and is continuing to support efforts to ensure safe movement of fuels manually, while concurrent efforts to restore the system’s operation continues.
More:
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Today we issued a new proposed rule to update decades-old pipeline leak detection and repair regulations. The rule will modernize decades-old pipeline safety rules, invest in critical American infrastructure, create good-paying jobs, and improve safety.
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Firefighters are the first line of defense when responding to hazmat incidents.🚒
That’s why we fund training for thousands of firefighters through our Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) grants.
Deputy Administrator Brown recently met with
@NashvilleFD
to...
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PHMSA’s Hazardous Mattˢᵐ wants you to know about the dangers associated with shipping hazardous materials (like fireworks🧨🎆🎇).
Keep delivery workers and loved ones safe this summer by learning how to properly label and ship hazardous materials at
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Fatalities caused by transporting hazardous materials decreased 77% from 2011 to 2020.
#PHMSAFactFriday
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Today Dep. Admin. Brown testified before the
@HouseCommerce
Subcommittee on Energy regarding
@PHMSA_DOT
’s efforts to improve pipeline safety & mitigate environmental impacts.
Read the testimony at
Watch the hearing at
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Deputy Administrator Tristan Brown and PHMSA staff visited Norfolk Southern’s safety training facility yesterday in Alexandria, Virginia, where hundreds of first responders participate in hazardous materials incident training.
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Earlier today PHMSA Dep. Admin. Brown and
@USDOTFRA
Admin. Bose heard from IAFF firefighters and labor union members on how they are working to improve rail safety for workers and the public
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The
@BelRedDevils
might have been eliminated from the World Cup this week but at least they can come home to this 🍻
#PHMSAFactFriday
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Hazardous materials can be in places you least expect, like in electronic devices 💻 or beauty products 💅.
Do your part to protect delivery workers and consumers this holiday season by learning how to properly ship hazmat at
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More than 230,000 downloads of the official
#ERG
app! Get it here
http://t.co/eebXAX2t4k
#EmergencyResponse
http://t.co/RNAhl2lKyX
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Today PHMSA issued a new rule that strengthens requirements for oil and hazardous liquid pipelines located near the Great Lakes and coastal areas—sensitive ecological areas that require the most stringent protections.
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PHMSA and Hazardous Matt wish everyone a happy and safe Fourth of July!
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PHMSA is monitoring the movements of Hurricane Ida to understand the effects on hazardous materials and pipeline operations. This webpage provides critical information regarding our safety programs to assist in any necessary response & remediation efforts:
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On Friday,
@PHMSA_DOT
Dep. Admin. Brown and
@USDOT
Asst. Sec. for Tribal Affairs Teller joined Navajo Nation President
@BuuVanNygren
to announce $1.9M to
@NTUAUtilities
from
@POTUS
’ Infrastructure Law to fix old gas piping, creating jobs and reducing energy costs.
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Happy 8/11 Day!
PHMSA reminds everyone to always call 811 a few days before any digging project—this simple act will help prevent injury, protect the environment, and avoid disruptions to utilities.
More info here →
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“Whether you’re landscaping your yard, building a deck, or installing a mailbox at your home, it’s absolutely essential to call 811 before any excavation project.” -
@SecretaryPete
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On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, PHMSA remembers the victims and their families, and honors the incredible bravery of first responders and service members that have given so much.
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E-bikes 🚲, scooters 🛴, wheelchairs, & micromobility devices are an equitable & sustainable mode of transportation. These devices must be handled with care since they contain lithium batteries—a hazardous material that can cause fires.
Here are some safety tips to remember👇
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It can be a bumpy ride during shipments, and if Hazardous Matt & his buddies aren't properly packaged, marked, or labeled, it can be dangerous.
To keep our package delivery workers & consumers safe, it's important to always Check the Box. Learn more at
The holidays are here thanks to our supply chains and the workers who sort, ship, and deliver your gifts to your door.
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Read the full rule here:
Both before and since the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, OH, we have been pushing hard at USDOT to improve freight rail safety. Today's PHMSA rule is another step in the right direction. (1/2)
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April is National Safe Digging Month!
Not sure how to practice safe digging? PHMSA has resources that can help.
Learn more here →
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This week, Deputy Administrator
@BrownTristanh
and PHMSA staff attended the
@pstrust
2022 conference to discuss new initiatives, regulatory updates, and the future of pipeline safety.
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Stop by PHMSA’s booth located at the
@NatsTeamStore
behind center field to speak with our staff about the “Call Before You Dig” 811 program.
Learn more about safe digging practices essential to protecting underground utilities by visiting .
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We had a great time at
@phoenixraceway
over the weekend! Thank you
@Josh6williams
and
@NASCAR
for your continued support in contacting 811 Before You Dig.
Next pit stop, National Safe Digging Month!
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This week we announced $196M in grant funding to the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization grant program, which aims to improve public safety, protect public health, and reduce methane emissions.
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Today we announced nearly $15 million in grants to support pipeline safety activities across the country, including funding for safety research, excavation damage prevention programs, incident response trainings, and more.
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Yesterday,
@PHMSA_DOT
continued Infrastructure Week with an announcement of over $39M from
@POTUS
’ Infrastructure Law for
@RichmondDPU
in Richmond, VA. PHMSA was joined by Richmond Mayor
@LevarStoney
and representatives from
@MarkWarner
,
@timkaine
, and
@RepMcClellan
.
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Today isn’t 8/11, but we are observing National
#811day
! Remember to call 8-1-1 AT LEAST two days prior to any digging project to have the locations of underground utilities marked
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PHMSA Deputy Administrator Tristan Brown visited Anaheim, California today for a Q&A at the
@CGAConnect
Conference and Expo, where he discussed the importance of safe digging to protect people, property, and the environment.
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Even though National Safe Digging Month is coming to an end, it’s important to practice safe digging every month of the year.
Always call 811 before you dig!
(Open for a surprise.)
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Today in Paris, TN, Deputy Administrator Brown awarded $39K to Paris-Henry County Public Utilities from
@POTUS
' Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to fund the purchase of equipment to detect natural gas leaks—helping improve safety & reduce energy costs for thousands of customers.
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Today, we’d like to recognize our Executive Director Mac McMillan, a former Colonel and 30-year U.S. Army veteran. He joined our team in 2001 and now has 50+ years of military & federal service. Thank you for your service, Mac!
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