Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Amendments to title 49, United States Code. 
Sec. 3. General definitions. 
TITLE I—STRENGTHENING EMERGENCY RESPONSE 
CAPABILITIES AND INFORMATION 
Sec. 101. Minimum standards for emergency response information services. 
Sec. 102. Training for emergency responders. 
Sec. 103. Assessment of volunteer firefighter training capabilities. 
Sec. 104. National hazardous materials fusion center. 
Sec. 105. Paperless hazard communications pilot program. 
TITLE II—STRENGTHENING HAZARDOUS MATERIAL SAFETY 
Sec. 201. Transportation of lithium cells and batteries on board aircraft. 
Sec. 202. Requirements relating to external product piping on cargo tanks 
transporting flammable liquid. 
Sec. 203. Improving data collection, analysis, and reporting. 
TITLE III—STRENGTHENING ENFORCEMENT 
Sec. 301. Hazardous material enforcement training program. 
Sec. 302. Inspections and investigations. 
Sec. 303. Civil penalties. 
Sec. 304. Additional resources. 
TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 401. Special permits, approvals, and exclusions. 
Sec. 402. Uniform hazardous material State registration and permit program. 
Sec. 403. Regular reporting on use of fees. 
Sec. 404. Implementation of the hazardous material safety permit program. 
Sec. 405. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49, UNITED STATES CODE. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other 
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to 
a section or other provision of title 49, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 3. GENERAL DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act, the following definitions apply: 
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(1) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 
means the Department of Transportation. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Transportation. 
TITLE 
I—STRENGTHENING 
EMERGENCY RESPONSE CA-
PABILITIES 
AND 
INFORMA-
TION 
SEC. 101. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR EMERGENCY RE-
SPONSE INFORMATION SERVICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 24 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall pre-
scribe, by regulation, minimum standards for persons who 
provide hazardous material transportation emergency re-
sponse information services required or governed by regu-
lations prescribed under chapter 51 of title 49, United 
States Code. 
(b) AUTHORITY.—Section 5103(b)(1)(A) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in clause (vi) by striking ‘‘or’’ after the 
semicolon; 
(2) by redesignating clause (vii) as clause (viii); 
(3) in clause (viii), as so redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘through (vi)’’ and inserting ‘‘through (vii)’’; 
and 
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(4) by inserting after clause (vi) the following: 
‘‘(vii) provides hazardous material 
transportation emergency response infor-
mation services required or governed by 
regulations prescribed under this chapter; 
or’’. 
SEC. 102. TRAINING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS. 
(a) OPERATIONS LEVEL TRAINING.—Section 5116 is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1) by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘To the extent that a grant is used to 
train emergency responders, the State or Indian 
tribe shall certify, in writing, to the Secretary that 
the emergency responders who receive training under 
the grant, at a minimum, will have the ability to 
protect nearby persons, property, and the environ-
ment from the effects of accidents or incidents in-
volving the transportation of hazardous material in 
accordance with existing regulations or National 
Fire Protection Association Standard 472.’’; 
(2) in subsection (i)(4) by striking ‘‘2 percent’’ 
and inserting ‘‘4 percent’’; 
(3) in subsection (j)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 
paragraph (7); and 
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(B) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following: 
‘‘(5) The Secretary may make a grant to an or-
ganization under this subsection only if the organi-
zation ensures that emergency responders who re-
ceive training under the grant, at a minimum, will 
have the ability to protect nearby persons, property, 
and the environment from the effects of accidents or 
incidents involving the transportation of hazardous 
material in accordance with existing regulations or 
National Fire Protection Association Standard 472. 
‘‘(6) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (3), 
to the extent determined appropriate by the Sec-
retary, a grant made by the Secretary to an organi-
zation under this subsection to conduct hazardous 
material response training programs may be used to 
train individuals with statutory responsibility to re-
spond to accidents and incidents involving hazardous 
material.’’; and 
(4) in subsection (k)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary shall sub-
mit annually’’ and inserting ‘‘Not later than 
March 1, 2010, and every 2 years thereafter, 
the Secretary shall submit’’; and 
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(B) by striking the second sentence and in-
serting the following: ‘‘The report shall identify 
the ultimate recipients of such grants and in-
clude— 
‘‘(1) a detailed accounting and description of 
each grant expenditure by each grant recipient, in-
cluding the amount of and purpose for each expendi-
ture; 
‘‘(2) the number of persons trained under the 
grant program by training level; 
‘‘(3) an evaluation of the efficacy of such train-
ing; and 
‘‘(4) any recommendations the Secretary may 
have for improving such grant programs.’’. 
(b) TRAINING
CURRICULUM.—Section 5115 is 
amended in each of subsections (b)(1)(B), (b)(2), and (c) 
by striking ‘‘basic’’. 
SEC. 103. ASSESSMENT OF VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER 
TRAINING CAPABILITIES. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may conduct 
an assessment of the existing training capabilities of, 
and delivery methods available for the preparedness 
and training of, volunteer fire services personnel to 
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