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#11 CNJRoss

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Posted 08 October 2014 - 11:05 PM

The Columbian, Vancouver, WA, 10/6:

Rail groups push feds to drop Bakken oil rule
Transportation says notifying safety officials reasonable


WASHINGTON — Two railroad industry trade groups have quietly asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to drop its requirement that rail carriers transporting large volumes of Bakken crude oil notify state emergency officials.

The railroads have maintained that they already provide communities with adequate information about hazardous materials shipments and that public release of the data could harm the industry from a security and business standpoint. But they haven't been successful in convincing numerous states or the federal government.

On Friday, the Federal Railroad Administration published a notice in the Federal Register concluding that the Bakken train data isn't sensitive on either a security or commercial basis, nor is it protected from disclosure by any federal law.

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Posted 11 December 2014 - 10:52 PM

Platt's McGraw-Hill Financial, 12/10:
 

US spending bill would speed up crude-by-rail rule, stem more product reserves

 

Washington (Platts)--10Dec2014/455 pm EST/2155 GMT

 

The US Department of Transportation would face a January 15 deadline to issue its long-awaited crude-by-rail safety regulations, under a must-pass spending bill crafted by Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both chambers of Congress.

 

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