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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 26 November 2014 - 06:33 PM

Government Security News, 11/25:

Sequestration cuts HAZMAT train tracking program Recently, a GSN reader emailed me about the Transportation Security Administration's hazardous material tracking program. The agency is required by a 2007 law to track sensitive security materials but it stopped doing so in 2013. The program was cut because of sequestration. State and local response personnel are going to pay a heavy price for this short-sighted decision unless Congress acts in the next two weeks to fully fund the program.   In 2007, Congress passed the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act. Section 1552 of the law requires TSA to develop a tracking program that provides the location of railroad cars transporting sensitive security materials. The technology was also supposed to notify authorities of railroad car depressurization, breach, unsafe temperature, or release of hazardous materials. Lastly, Congress authorized $3 million for fiscal years 2008, 2009, and 2010 to offset the costs associated with establishing and maintaining the new program.

 

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