Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA) announced
that it had approved the DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) notice
of proposed rulemaking on hazmat train securement. This proposed rulemaking was
not listed in the Administration’s Spring
Unified Agenda.
As I noted in an earlier
blog post this NPRM probably looks like the
rule proposed by the FRA’s Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) back
in April. That proposed rule would apply to trains with single cars of toxic
inhalation hazard (TIH) chemicals or trains with 20 cars (total) of almost any
other hazardous material. It would cover most freight trains that I have
watched at road crossings over the years.
This rulemaking apparently has a high level of interest
within the Administration. It was submitted
to OIRA on August 15th and approved yesterday; that is fast
action time for OMB. I expect that it will be published in the Federal Register
later this week.
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