In the March edition of NASSCO Corner, my predecessor Irvin Gemora communicated the importance of verifying the credentials of contractors certified in NASSCO’s Pipeline Assessment Cer-tification Program (PACP). As NASSCO’s newly appointed executive director, I plan to bring a number of important initiatives to fruition, and one of them is maintaining the integrity and quality of PACP. Besides ensuring that the people doing the work are truly PACP-certified, a larger area for concern is the potentially decreasing quality of pipeline assessments completed under PACP. For example, consultants are expending excessive quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) costs to review video and data
