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>> Alan Mayberry:: Good morning, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to our Hazardous Liquid Integrity Verification Workshop. Appreciate everyone traveling a long way to this event. And to remind you this is being webcast today and we'd like to welcome the webcast viewers. Jeff Wiese will kick things off. Jeff is at the office tending to store as the last 2 days we had or pipeline advisory committee meetings in this room actually so he's back at the store minding the store. My name is Alan Mayberry; I'm the deputy associate administrator for policy and programs. The purpose of the workshop is to bring the best minds to bear on the issue that we've been tossing around at the agency and have had some discussions with you on it as well. This is a technical workshop. The role is to talk about the technical issues relevant to an integrity verification process for liquid pipelines. We did a similar workshop on the gas side and ultimately later led to rulemaking. I will say on the hazardous liquid side we're not in rulemaking yet. So that's why we put these events on like this workshop to gather data before we head to rulemaking. We're not in rulemaking yet. Why are we here today? I know some may think PHMSA doesn't have a mandate related to hazardous liquid integrity verification. On the gas side we have the backdrop of San Bruno and grandfather pipelines resulting mandate and recommendations from NTSB. But yet as the regulator, oversight authority tells us to do, we're entrusted to focus on pipeline safety and really take action beyond not just by what we're told to do through mandates or recommended to do through recommendations, but also to see from our unique role looking across the industry and US, areas where improvements can be made in pipeline safety. Certainly with liquid pipelines, through observations and the aftermath of failures we notice there's a continuing theme not unique to gas pipelines, transmission or distribution, buts also with liquid lines, the level of knowledge of the operator. Again, both in the aftermath of a failure or as results of our inspections have shown, clearly operators need to know more. Operators are responsible for operating their system and for performance. So the effort here and focus of IVP is knowledge of your system. Certainly deals with how you verify the maximum operating pressure of your system, but also deals the conversation always goes back to what do you know about your system. And that's a big focus of the integrity verification process is your knowledge of the system. Recordkeeping. That sort of thing. Before we get into the feature presentations today I'd like to go through a few logistic items. I might have gotten ahead of myself here. I guess with our next slide I've got up here I think I'm a little off key there max. We're here for dialogue and to engage and, it's up to all of you to really to engage and really ask questions. And also if you have knowledge, we really -- the purpose is to bring the best minds to bear on the issues. We realize everyone has a busy summer. I know we had a sluggish start as far as getting participants for this workshop because of summer vacations and the like. I think people were taking their last vacations so we appreciate the time that people take away from their day jobs and from home to come here to present. Emergency exits are to your left. Those doors head downstairs and outside. If you go out the left side you have to turn left and another left and you'll end up in the same area. As far as cell phones, if you would put them on silent mode or vibrate. We also have a set up through Twitter, you can tweet questions, if you have questions at any time, we're monitoring or Twitter account. That address is shown up there right now. We're the federal government. I'm sorry; we don't offer coffee. We do offer good northern Virginia DC area water, however. It's cold and good. There's plenty of that t all you can drink. Restrooms, if you go out these doors here on my left and about a mile down the hallway you'll see restrooms beyond the elevators on the right there. As far as today's agenda, I'm going to turn it over to Ken Lee, in a moment. On the agenda, hopefully on the webcast you have the agenda that was connected with the link. But we do have agenda at the front registration desk if you need that. We also today, we have a copy of the flow chart and also have a full size version in the back there. The flow chart that describes the hazardous liquid integrity verification process. It's very similar to the gas one that we had at a workshop as well. And then especially for those that are local as far as lunch options we have a list of restaurants in the area. I think there's one in the hotel, but there's also a variety of selections in the Crystal City mall, which you take through an underground tunnel to access those. So wide variety. I know here in northern Virginia we have the world at our doorstep. Restaurant list is reflective of that as well. A wide selection there. As far as our agenda goes I'm going to kick it off today and Ken will be our moderator for the first panel. We're going to -- the first two presentations will be with Robert Hall and Steve Nanney and then Q and A. We have microphones here, and then we also on our, webcast you can send questions as well through the Twitter feed or there's also a link to email link to asking questions. Please we will try to get to all of them. If we don't at this workshop we'll answer them outside the workshop and post them. If you do have a question please state your -- if you're hear please state your name and affiliation. And I think that covers Q and A. Looking forward to a great dialogue. Out of just curiosity, as far as who's represented here, how many operators are in the room? Okay. How about vendors? Okay. Maybe a third of the group. And then any members of the media here? Anyone sitting next to a member of the media? Okay. I think I covered Vanna White duties. As far as break for lunch, we have a midmorning break and then we'll get the state perspective from the Joe. Thanks for coming, from Washington state. And then Carl Weimer from Pipeline Safety Trust will lead us up to noon and from noon eastern time to 1:30 we'll have lunch. And then afterwards we'll have the operator perspectives on hazardous liquid IVP after lunch. We'll have a break and then panel discussions. We'll bring everyone back to just last Q and A and break at 4. I'll come back and summarize and break from there. As far as where we go, I said we're not in rulemaking right now. We're in the data-gathering mode. That's why we put these workshops on. They're valuable to gather information as we develop policy. Necessarily for the conversation, we present a framework and that's what we have here today to talk from. But we're also open to your ideas and want your ideas on -- certainly like the concept of engineering critical assessment, ECA, and there's a lot of discussion around what is that, what do you mean by that. Really looking forward to developing technical solutions to some of the challenges out there. Where is the hydrostatic test appropriate? Where is the development of tools that are available to give you the confidence that is needed to ensure the verification of the asset that's in the ground? For the technology to improve on that, it's a call for all of us, especially operators, to make sure that we put R&D funding into places where they're most effective. This is a key area I think that warrants further research certainly. Okay. With that, I think I will turn it over to Ken, who will introduce our first speaker. Thanks. >> :: This gives you the email address. That's a link you can access for questions or tweet us as well. All of these feels will be on the website meeting page. Welcome your comments and on the docket.