Nearly 130,000 Orange & Rockland customers use natural gas in their homes and businesses every day. Natural gas is clean, efficient, and delivered safely and reliably straight to their doorstep. Orange & Rockland delivers this natural gas through its underground network of approximately 1,800 miles of pipelines primarily in the states of New York and Pennsylvania.

Natural gas comes from underground wells as far away as the Gulf of Mexico and Western Canada, and is supplied to our region through high-pressure gas transmission pipelines. Orange & Rockland's customers receive gas through the Company's distribution system, which is made up of lower pressure gas mains.

Integrity Management Plan (IMP)

Recent changes in the Code of Federal Regulations require operators around the country, including Orange & Rockland, to provide extensive, additional testing, monitoring and documentation of a specific category of high pressure gas transmission pipelines. For Orange & Rockland, approximately three miles fall within this category. The requirements cover items such as:

• defining employees' roles and responsibilities
• idenitifying high-consequence areas along our transmission system
• assessing risks to our transmission system
• inspecting the condition of our transmission system and remediating potential problems
• instituting preventative and mitigative measures
• auditing and ensuring program quality
• documenting all program activity
• communicating information concerning our transmission pipelines to the public, regulators and internal personnel

Integrity Activities and Prevention Measures

Orange & Rockland is proactively involved in the integrity management process and takes steps to ensure the safety and reliability of our transmission system, in accordance with regulatory standards. These steps include:

• utilizing design criteria and materials consistent with industry standards
• installing remote operated valves that allow us to quickly isolate our system
• inspecting and maintaining our system
• monitoring system performance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• actively participating in the regional one-call system in an effort to prevent third-party damage
• monitoring all known third-party activity within 25 feet of our transmission system
• patrolling our entire transmission system to detect unreported third-party activity
• marking and identifying underground transmission mains
• installing pipeline markers to warn excavators to "call before you dig"
• qualifying and training employees and contractors in accordance with company practices and standards, as well as federal and state regulations
• performing internal reviews of operations, procedures, and emergency plans
• assisting external reviews by federal and state government agencies
• sharing information with our local fire departments to facilitate and practice emergency response efforts
• using an Incident Command System to control and mitigate incidents

We work diligently to keep our entire system safe and reliable. For additional information on transmission pipelines in your area, please visit the National Pipeline Mapping System on the Web.