Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA) announced
that it had approved a
final rule submitted by DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety
Administration concerning the regulation of shipments of lithium batteries.
This has been a very controversial rulemaking as can be seen
by the number of
meetings (including the latest
meeting in May) that OIRA has had with a variety of shippers, manufacturers
and advocacy groups since the NPRM was published in 2010.
The OIRA announcement indicated that their approval was ‘consistent
with change’ so there could be a slight delay in the issuance of the final
rule, but I expect that it will happen sometime next week.
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