Oil and Flammable Material Rail Transportation Safety Act

Bill: 116-hr-851
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3]
Introduced: 2019-01-29
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Transportation

Railroads

Transportation safety and security
Latest action: action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><STRONG>Oil and Flammable Material Rail Transportation Safety Act </STRONG></p> <p> 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.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 851 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 A BILL To reinstate requirements pertaining to electronically controlled pneumatic brake systems on high-hazard flammable unit trains, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Oil and Flammable Material Rail Transportation Safety Act . 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.