US homeland security agency to release infrastructure plan Nov 10
Washington (Platts)--4Nov2004
The US Homeland Security Dept plans to release its National Infrastructure Protection Plan, which will detail the Bush administration's strategy for protecting electricity, natural gas and oil facilities, on Nov 10, a DHS official said Thursday. Evan Wolff, of DHS' Infrastructure Analysis and Protection division, told an Energy Bar Association conference the broad plan would be released Wednesday Nov 10. DHS, created by Congress after the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, pays special attention to critical infrastructure--nuclear power plants, major dams, and certain transmission lines and pipelines. Officials from the American Petroleum Institute and the Transportation Department said that industry had worked well with the federal agencies since Sept 11 to shore up oil and gas pipelines, and former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Richard Meserve asserted that nuclear power plant security was comprehensive and "formidable." Still, experts said more can and should be done. Robert Cupina, deputy director of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects said the agency may revise a June 2003 critical energy infrastructure information order, which restricted public access to technical information that could be used by a potential attacker. He said changes to the order might allow the agency to decline requests for disclosure, even to discreet parties, when security of critical energy sites was clearly at stake.
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