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FL-11. State and Local Pipeline Safety Control <br />WHEREAS, the rece : rupture and explosion of a gasoline pipeline in Hounds <br />View, Minnesota, has remonstrated the potentially hazardous conditions of <br />underground pipeline transport of volatile petroleum products through the <br />residential, commercial, and industrial areas of the nation's cities; and <br />WHEREAS, there are nearly 2 million miles of liquid and natural gas <br />pipelines throughout the nation which receive inadequate federal monitoring or <br />inspection and; <br />WHEREAS, current federal law appears to pre-empt state and local authority <br />to regulate the operation, monitoring, transport, and safety of such pipelines; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, federal legislation has been introduced to establish a community <br />right -to -know policy with respect to substances transported through such <br />pipelines and to require the use of monitoring and valve techniques for both new <br />and old pipelines to detect leakage and assure automatic shutdown in the case of <br />such incidents; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the National League of Cities should <br />strongly support MR 5401, to amend the Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 and <br />the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 to require more stringent testing <br />procedures; increased community notification; installation of automatic <br />shut-off valves on all pipelines; and prohibiting construction of new pipelines <br />within 150 feet of residential, hospital, nursing home, school, or correctional <br />facilities or other permanently inhabited facility. <br />f <br />-84- <br />