Nearly every morning I start my computer time by looking at information from Google about what happened in my blog in the previous 24 hours. Google, and blogspot.com is a Google service, provides interesting pieces of analytical data about my blog readership. One item of particular interest is the top ten blog posts each day. As you would expect, most of those posts were from the last couple of days, but with 16 years of publishing this blog, every once-in-a-while, a blog post from ancient history rises into that list.
Today a blog post from January 2009, “Railroad Accounting for Hazmat Shipment Costs ANPRM”, made the list. It looked at an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) from the Surface Transportation Board that asked for public comment on perhaps changing the STB’s Uniform Railroad Costing System (URCS) reporting to separately list the costs associated with railroad transportation of hazardous materials.
An interesting problem with these blog posts is that there is no forward linking to posts about the ultimate results for the actions being reported, especially when the agency's action is to cancel the action. In this case, in September 2016, the STB published a notice discontinuing the proceedings. That document summarized comments the Board received in response to the ANPRM, including an interesting point raised by ‘the railroads’:
“The railroads argue that, even if the Board were to change URCS, they should also be allowed to present the unique costs of transporting hazardous materials in rate proceedings involving hazardous materials.”
This particular can of worms may have contributed to the Board’s action to shut down the proceedings.
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