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Showing posts with label Crude Oil Trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crude Oil Trains. Show all posts
Sunday, December 3, 2017

OMB Approves PHMSA EPC Decision

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On Friday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved the DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous M...
Friday, December 1, 2017

PHMSA Sends ECP Breaking Decision to OMB

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Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had received from DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Safety Railcar

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From time to time I receive interesting emails from readers of this blog. Yesterday it was one from a designer of a new ‘Safety Railcar’ t...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

House Reports S 546, the RESPONSE Act

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Earlier in the lame duck session the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee published their report on S 546, the RESPONSE Act t...
Friday, August 5, 2016

S 3187 Introduced – Rail Hazmat Safety

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Last month Sen. Merkley (D,OR) introduced S 3187, the Mandate Oil Spill Investigations and Emergency Rules (MOSIER) Act of 2016 . The namin...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

PHMSA Publishes HHFT Oil Spill Response Rule

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Last week the DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the F...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Spring 2016 Unified Agenda – DOT

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As I mentioned yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) published the Spring 2016 Unified Agenda. Today I w...
Friday, February 26, 2016

OMB Approves Revised FRA Accident Report ICR

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On Wednesday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved “with change” the information co...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Amendments to S 2012 – 02-03-16

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Yesterday there were 45 amendments proposed for S 2012 , the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015. Of those, one may be of specific int...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

FRA Publishes Bakken Notification ICR Renewal 60-day Notice

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The DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published a 60-day information collection request renewal (ICR) notice in Monday’s Federal ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

FRA Publishes 30-day ICR for Accident Reporting Form

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Today the DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration published a 30-day information collection request (ICR) notice in the Federal Register for ...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

FRA Announces Final Rule for Securement of Unattended Equipment

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Yesterday the DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration announced that it had submitted their final rule for the securement of unattended equi...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Crude Oil Trains and Terrorists

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In researching my post on Saturday about the OMB’s extension of Bakken train notification ICR I had a chance to read the joint comments [...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

OMB Approves Extension of Bakken Train Notification ICR

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Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved the extension of DOT’s information ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

S 1626 Introduced – Rail Safety

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NOTE: I did not report this bill when it was introduced on June 18 th because the introduction title clearly stated that it was a bill to ...