Chemical Facility Security News

Yesterday, the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved an ‘Extension without change’ for t...

On Tuesday, I reported that the TSA had published a 30-day ICR extension notice in the Federal Register. I noted that there was a minor dis...

There were 32 bills introduced in the House and Senate yesterday. Only one of them may be of specific interest to readers of this blog: ...

There is an interesting discussion going on over on the Hazardous Materials Emergency Response (group membership required) group on Linked...

Just some more things that I did not get a chance to address during the week. Another Parked Train Derailment While the actual acci...

This weekend there was a serious train derailment in a small town in Canada that may have some serious implications for the expanding use o...

Yesterday the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a notice in the Federal Register ( 78 FR11216 ) that they had posted ...

The Transportation Security Administration published a 30-Day information collection request (ICR) notice in today’s Federal Register (77 F...

An Indianapolis TV station’s web site is reporting that CSX will halt rail traffic past the Lucas Oil Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday this yea...

On Friday the House of Representatives passed HR 1892, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 , by a substantially bipartis...

The Office of Management and Budget announced on their RegInfo.gov web site yesterday that they had approved ‘consistent with change’ (...

Yesterday the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing looking at the “Next Steps for Securing Rail and Tr...

Two weeks in a row with both houses of Congress in Washington, what a concept. The hearing schedule is beginning to reflect the approach of ...

This week both the Senate and House will be in Washington at the same time. This actually results in a decrease in the number of hearings th...

This weekend there was an interesting article in my home town newspaper about the renovation of an old textile mill into offices, retail, a...

Yesterday I was invited to join a Blogger Conference Call with CSX. They wanted a chance to show-off their new SecureNow system; their compr...

The House Homeland Security Committee has three hearings scheduled next week that may be of interest to the chemical security community. Th...

I recently found another web site that provides valuable information about the development of Federal government regulations. It is part of ...

There was an interesting article on NewsPaperTree.com, an El Paso, Tx news site, about a wide variety of chemical safety issues that are re...