On the recordOctober 10, 2000
Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, July 8, 1986, a quiet neighborhood in Mounds View, Minnesota, at 4 a.m. was wrenched from its slumber by a shattering explosion. A wall of fire roared through the street, turning the night into an inextinguishable nightmare. The explosion of a pipeline carrying unleaded gasoline killed a mother and her 7-year-old daughter, incinerated them, and severely injured another woman who emerged from her home. Lawns were scorched, mailboxes melted, power lines were down, cars set afire, the road buckled, and trees wilted. A quarter of a million dollars of property damage was caused. The origin of it all: a ruptured hazardous liquid pipeline carrying gasoline between St. Paul and Duluth. It focused the attention of the Congress and of the country and the review of the National Transportation Safety Board and the General Accounting Office on the need to improve the safety of the Nation's pipelines.
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