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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, 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.

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SIF Spotlight

The APGA Security and Integrity Foundation (SIF) has developed the SHRIMP on-line DIMP plan development tool to make writing a plan easy and inexpensive. SHRIMP is now live so look for an email with your username and password or email shrimp@apgasif.org. Once you 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! An updated user guide will be released soon. Informational demos of the program can be viewed on the APGA SIF website here.

Don't have SHRIMP yet? Click here to apply now and go here learn more by visiting our SHRIMP page.

Upcoming Workshops

Want to know more about SHRIMP or are you a new user to SHRIMP? Please attend our 2pm EST Sept 10th webinar "An Introduction to SHRIMP: Part Two". Sign up here!

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.