What factors must be considered in risk analyses conducted to determine if additional preventive or mitigative actions are needed?
An operator must consider all risk factors relevant to a particular pipeline segment. This includes risk factors that influence both the likelihood and the consequences of pipeline failure. This would include: design and construction information maintenance and surveillance activities, operating parameters and operating history right-of-way information, information about the population and the environment near the pipeline, etc. The rule specifically identifies several risk factors that should be considered including: terrain surrounding the pipeline segment, including drainage systems such as small streams and other smaller waterways that could act as a conduit to the high consequence area; elevation profile; characteristics of the product transported; amount of product that could be released; possibility of a spillage in a farm field following the drain tile into a waterway; ditches along side a roadway the pipeline crosses; physical support of the pipeline segment such as by a cable
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