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plemental report include that reports submitted
by natural gas and liquid pipeline stakeholders
involve "transmission" as the facility affected and
"no notification made to one call center/811" as the
root cause in higher percentages than their damage
reports. In addition, near-miss reports from locators
are not significantly different from their damage
reports in terms of root causes, facility operation or
facility type affected.
"Damage prevention advocates have long recognized the value in collecting information not only
about incidents that result in damage to our nation's
buried infrastructure, but also gathering data
surrounding incidents which very nearly could have
resulted in damage - those events that the damage
prevention industry refers to as 'near misses,'" said
Sarah K. Magruder Lyle, president and CEO of the
Common Ground Alliance.
The complete DIRT Supplemental
Report-Analysis of Near Miss Events (20152018) is available for download at www.
commongroundalliance.com, and stakeholders

interested in submitting data to the 2020 report or
establishing a Virtual Private Dirt account should
visit the DIRT site at www.cga-dirt.com.

DCA Restructures Industry
Meetings
The Distribution Contractors Association has cancelled its planned Mid-Year and Fall Meetings and
will hold a combined event later in the fall.
Robert Darden, Executive Vice President for the
organization issued a statement to members:
'In light of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic
and state travel restrictions, the DCA Board of
Directors has decided to cancel the Mid-Year
Meeting schedule for mid-July and the Fall Meeting
scheduled for late October.
"This was not an easy decision, but ultimately
the public health and safety of our members,
families, speakers, and staff led us to conclude that
cancelling these face-to-face meeting was the safe
and responsible action.
"In the place of these two major DCA events,

a "Mid-Fall Meeting" has been scheduled for
Monday, Oct. 5-Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 at the
Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC.
"This event will be a combination of the Mid-Year
and Fall Meetings and be held at the same hotel
where Mid-Year was planned to occur.
"More details will be forthcoming and posted
on the DCA website. Registration will open later
this summer."

MPLX Abandons Permian NGL
Pipeline Amid Industry Downturn
MPLX LP said it is no longer pursuing its BANGL
pipeline project in the current downcycle and
will focus instead on increasing the capacity of its
existing pipelines.
The BANGL pipeline was to have delivered
Permian Basin natural gas liquids (NGL) to the Texas
Gulf Coast. The project's associated fractionation
capacity and export facility also were deferred.
The company cut its planned capital spending for
2020 by more than $700 million to about $1 billion.

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