Every stakeholder agreed to participate in this important project. These diverse groups put aside their differences and demonstrated that sharing responsibility is the key to success. Underground damage prevention is a promise we make and keep together. Damage Prevention grants can be specifically allocated to projects suggested by the Best Practices report. But the true key to implementing these Best Practices is to make sure that every business or agency engaged in digging knows about them.
Safe digging is everyone's responsibility.
It is now my great pleasure to ask our Administrator for Research and Special Programs, Kelley Coyner, to join me at the lectern as we officially inaugurate our new national campaign to teach America to Dig Safely . This is a great theme. And the other materials supporting this theme poster are just as good. For the past three years the Damage Prevention Quality Action Team within our Office of Pipeline Safety has been working on this campaign with our private sector and state government partners, including the state One Call Centers. We've also received a lot of help from professional excavators, and the telecommunications and insurance industries.