Today, DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register (88 FR 41541-41560) for “Hazardous Materials: FAST Act Requirements for Real-Time Train Consist Information”. The rule would require all railroads to generate in electronic form, maintain, and provide to first responders, emergency response officials, and law enforcement personnel, certain information regarding hazardous materials in rail transportation to enhance emergency response and investigative efforts.
Public Comments
PHMSA is soliciting public comments on this NPRM. Comments
may be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket PHMSA-2016-0015).
Comments should be submitted by August 28th, 2023.
For more details about the provisions of this rulemaking,
including a discussion about the security of information disclosed to response
personnel, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/phmsa-publishes-railroad-incident
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