106 STAT. 3308 PUBLIC LAW 102-508—OCT. 24, 1992 "(A) without first using an available one-«all notification system to determine the location of underground facilities in the area being excavated; or "(B) without heeding appropriate location information or markings established by an operator of a natural gas or hazardous liquid pipeline facility; and
- (2) subsequently damages—
"(A) a natural gas pipeline facility resulting in death, serious bodily harm, or actual damage to property exceeding $50,000; or "(B) a hazardous liquid pipehne facility resulting in death, serious bodily harm, actual damage to property
- ? exceeding $50,000, or release of more than 50 barrels of
product, shall, upon conviction, be subject, for each offense, to a fine under title 18, United States Code, imprisonment for a term not to exceed 5 years, or both. "(h) MARKING OF FACILITIES. —Upon notification by an operator of a damage prevention program or by a contractor, excavator, or other person planning to carry out demolition, excavation, tunneling, or construction in the vicinity of a natural gas or hazardous Uquid pipeline facility, the operator of the pipeline facility shall accurately mark, in a reasonable and timely manner, the location of the pipeline facilities in the vicinity of such demoUtion, excavation, tunneling, or construction.". (b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. — Subsections (a)(1) and (c)(1) of section 11 of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (49 49 USC app. U.S.C. App. 1678) are each amended by inserting "or section 20(h)" ^^'^^^- after "section 10(a)". 49 USC app. (c) NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH 1682 note. ADMINISTRATION.— The Secretary of Transportation shall, in consultation with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, establish procedures to notify such Administration of any pipehne accident in which an excavator, causing damage to a pipeline, may have violated Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations. SEC. 306. ADDITIONAL INSPECTORS. To the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Secretary of Transportation, in fiscal year 1993, shall employ and retain thereafter an additional 12 employees for regional or field pipeline safety offices above the number of such employees authorized for fiscal year 1992. The primary functions of such additional employees shall be— (1) to provide technical assistance and training to State pipeline inspectors and to assist in the review and management , of pipehne safety grants; (2) to inspect pipeUne facilities, including interstate and intrastate hazardous liquid pipeline facilities in those States that do not have a hazardous Uquid pipehne safety program that meets the requirements of section 205(a) or (b) of the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. App. f 2004 (a) or (b)); (3) to assist the States identified in paragraph (2) in developing hazardous liquid pipeline safety programs that meet such requirements; and,, • . , . u^-
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