The data provided to Licensees under this License Agreement includes species and natural communities’ data within the project area provided by South Bow including data from the following states: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota (“Licensed Dataset”).
The data will be used to comply with pipeline safety regulations that require operators to develop integrity management programs to proactively protect resources that are unusually sensitive to environmental damage from a hazardous liquid pipeline release. Please see 49 CFR 195.452 for more on pipeline integrity management and 49 CFR 195.6 for the definition of an ecological unusually sensitive area (EcoUSA).
One GIS person at FreemanGIS will be working with the raw species data to filter it into ecological USAs per the definition in 49 CFR 195.6. A derived set of EcoUSAs will be passed to South Bow Corporation for internal use in their integrity management program. It is anticipated two people will be working with the derived EcoUSA dataset internally at South Bow. (South Bow operates the Keystone Pipeline. TC Energy spun off their liquid pipelines to the new corporation in October 2024.)
