Oil and Flammable Material Rail Transportation Safety Act

Oil and Flammable Material Rail Transportation Safety Act

This bill declares that the final rule of the Department of Transportation dated September 25, 2018, and titled "Hazardous Materials: Removal of Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake System Requirements for High Hazard Flammable Unit Trains" shall have no force and effect and each regulation removed or amended by such final rule shall be restored and revived as if such final rule had not been issued.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 851 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 851

   To reinstate requirements pertaining to electronically controlled 
 pneumatic brake systems on high-hazard flammable unit trains, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2019

 Ms. Herrera Beutler introduced the following bill; which was referred 
         to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reinstate requirements pertaining to electronically controlled 
 pneumatic brake systems on high-hazard flammable unit trains, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Oil and Flammable Material Rail 
Transportation Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF REQUIREMENTS.

    On and after the date that is 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act--
            (1) the final rule of the Department of Transportation 
        dated September 25, 2018, and titled ``Hazardous Materials: 
        Removal of Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake System 
        Requirements for High Hazard Flammable Unit Trains'' (83 Fed. 
        Reg. 48393) shall have no force and effect; and
            (2) each regulation removed or otherwise amended by such 
        final rule shall be restored and revived as if such final rule 
        had not been issued.
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