DIGEST
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Stokes HCR No. 143
Urges and requests the commissioner of conservation and the secretary of the Dept. of Natural
Resources, in consultation with the attorney general and with the assistance of the legislative
auditor as requested, to cooperatively and jointly conduct a comprehensive assessment and
evaluation of the hazards from pipelines inadequately covered, marked, or protected and no
longer buried as originally designed or permitted and to make recommendations for any
necessary statutory rule, regulation, or policy change in order to abate or mitigate such hazards.
Requests the report of the assessment and evaluation and recommendations be submitted to the
House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment and the Senate Committee on Natural
Resources no later than March 1, 2015.