NTSB Meeting to Release Vinyl Chloride Rail Accident Report

The National Transportation Safety Board published a meeting notice in today’s Federal Register (79 FR 41311-41312) concerning a meeting to be held in Washington, DC on July 29^th, 2014 to discuss the report of their investigation into the rail accident in Paulsboro, New Jersey on November 30, 2012 that resulted in a catastrophic release of vinyl chloride.

The meeting will be open to the public and will be web cast.

DHS Announces HSINAC Meeting – 4-10-14

Today DHS published a meeting notice in the Federal Register (79 FR 12209-12210) announcing the meeting of the Homeland Security Information Network Advisory Committee on April 10^th and 11^th, 2014. The public meeting will be held in Washington, DC and will be accessible via web conference and teleconference modes.

The agenda of this meeting is focused on the deployment of the HSIN R3 Platform. Specific topics of discussion will include:

• HSIN program updates;

• HSIN R3 platform optimization;

• HSIN R3 strategic positioning and messaging strategy;

• Membership, agendas and operations planning

DHS is soliciting public attendance the meeting. The public may physically attend the meeting or participate by web conference via HSIN Connect (available to non-HSIN registered individuals) or teleconference. Actual participation will be limited to HSINAC members or via submission of written comments. Written comments would be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket # DHS-2013-0037).

BTW: The HSIN web site does a poor job of keeping up-to-date information available on the HSINAC. For instance there is nothing on the site about last December’s meeting.