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The American Public Gas Association Security and Integrity Foundation (SIF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation created in 2004 by the American Public Gas Association (APGA). The SIF is dedicated to promoting the security and operational integrity and safety of small natural gas distribution and utilization facilities. The SIF focuses its resources on enhancing the abilities of small gas system operators to prevent, mitigate and repair damage to the nation’s gas distribution infrastructure.

Initial SIF efforts under the cooperative agreement with PHMSA focused on providing education, procedures & training, materials, services and products specifically designed to increase the knowledge, skills and abilities of small distribution system, master meter system operators and propane piping system operators. It also focused on increasing small operators’ compliance with DOT Operator Qualification (OQ) requirements. Later projects include developing operation and maintenance procedures for OQ covered tasks and creating the SHRIMP™ on-line integrity management plan development tool.

	Upcoming Events

SIF Tools

We just added a new control room management procedures intended to comply with the provisions of 49 CFR Part 192.631 to the O&M Prodecures set. To view it please go here (you must fill out the disclaimer to access the procedures).

The APGA Security and Integrity Foundation (SIF), with support from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), has created an affordable, web-based Drug & Alcohol (D&A) Plan Development Tool that will help detect illegal drug use and alcohol misuse in the workplace! For more information, go to the Drug & Alcohol Plan page or contact the SIF at 202-370-6211.

The APGA Security and Integrity Foundation (SIF) has developed the SHRIMP Tool, an on-line DIMP plan development tool to make writing a plan easy and inexpensive. Don't have SHRIMP yet? Click here to apply now and go here learn more by visiting our SHRIMP page. If you have purchased SHRIMP, you can log into www.apgasif.org with your username & password, you'll be able to jump right over to SHRIMP program as well as our SHRIMP message boards. Informational demos of the program can be viewed on the APGA SIF website here.

Upcoming Workshops

2012 SIF Conference information is now up at www.apgasif.org/2012SIF

Regulating Devices - January 30-31, 2012, Sullivan, IL - Contact the SIF Office if you are interested in attending

Leak Investigation - February 23-24, 2012, Peoria, IL - Click Here to register online, or click here to download paper registration form

To learn more upcoming workshops, you can click on the above dates on the calendar widget or visit the entire SIF calendar page to view all the events here.

NEW WEBSITE NOTE: If you have registered for an OQ Workshop before, you have been assigned a username and password. When signing up to attend a workshop, please use your username and password in order to save, make edits, and record your registration history. If you have forgotten it, go to login page and click 'forgot login information' or call us at 202 370 6211 to get your username and password.