To improve the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regulations on hazardous storage containers.

Bill: 115-hr-209
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Fires

Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Motor fuels
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to prescribe, or amend existing, regulations concerning the siting of HUD-assisted projects near hazardous operations handling conventional fuels or chemicals of an explosive or flammable nature to include as an exception from the definition of the term &quot;hazard&quot; any stationary container which stores, handles, or processes hazardous substances of an explosive or fire-prone nature that: (1) has a capacity of 1,320 gallons or less; (2) is intended to contain common liquid fuels such as gasoline, fuel oil, kerosene, diesel, or crude oil; (3) is sited on land or property that contains a one- to four-family dwelling; and (4) is intended to be used solely by residents of such dwelling and exclusively for non-commercial, non-industrial purposes.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 209 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2017 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To improve the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations on hazardous storage containers.

1. Improving HUD hazardous storage container regulations The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall prescribe, or amend existing, regulations to include as an exception from the definition of the term hazard , as defined under subpart C of part 51 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, any stationary container which stores, handles, or processes hazardous substances of an explosive or fire-prone nature that— (1) has a capacity of 1,320 gallons or less; (2) is intended to contain common liquid fuels such as gasoline, fuel oil, kerosene, diesel, or crude oil; (3) is sited on land or property that contains a one- to four-family dwelling; (4) is intended to be used solely by residents of such dwelling; and (5) is intended to be used by residents of such dwelling exclusively for non-commercial, non-industrial purposes.