Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 1990
PL 101-500 (H.R.3386), enacted 11/03/1990

PUBLIC LAW 101-500—NOV. 3,1990 
104 STAT. 1213 
Public Law 101-500 
101st Congress 
An Act 
To prohibit certain food transportation practices and to provide for regulation by the 
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Secretary of Transportation that will safeguard food and certain other products 
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from contamination during motor or rail transportation, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
Sanitary Food 
Transportation 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
Act of 1990. 
This Act may be cited as the "Sanitary Food Transportation Act 
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of 1990". 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
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Congress finds that— 
(1) Americans are entitled to receive food and other consumer 
products that are not made unsafe as a result of certain 
transportation practices; 
(2) the American public is threatened by the transportation of 
products potentially harmful to consumers in motor vehicles 
and rail vehicles which are used to transport food and other 
consumer products; and 
(3) the risks posed to consumers by such transportation prac-
tices are unnecessary, and such practices must be terminated. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
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As used in this Act— 
(1) FOOD, POOD ADDITIVES, DRUGS, DEVICES, OR COSMETICS.—The 
terms "food", "food additives", "drugs", "devices", and "cosmet-
ics" have the meanings given to them by section 201 of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321). 
(2) NONFOOD PRODUCT.—The term "nonfood product" means 
any material, substance, or product (including refuse and solid 
waste, as such term is defined in section 1004 of the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6903)) which (except as provided under 
section 4(a)(2)) is not a food, food additive, drug, device, or 
cosmetic. Such term includes any class of such materials, sub-
stances, or products. 
(3) REFUSE.—The term "refuse" means any discarded material 
to be transported to or disposed of in a landfill or incinerator, or 
required by law to be transported to or disposed of in a landfill 
or incinerator. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of 
Transportation. 
(5) STATE.—The term "State" means a State of the United 
States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and any other terri-
tory or possession of the United States. 
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(6) TRANSPORTS OR TRANSPORTATION.—The term "transports" 
or "transportation" means any movement of property in com-
merce (including intrastate commerce) by motor vehicle or rail 
vehicle. 
(7) UNITED STATES.—The term "United States" means all of 
the States. 
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SEC. 4. REGULATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) RESPONSIBILITY OF SECRETARY.—In accordance with this 
Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agri-
culture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall 
issue regulations, pursuant to a rulemaking proceeding, with 
respect to the transportation of food, food additives, drugs, 
devices, and cosmetics in motor vehicles and rail vehicles which 
are used to transport either refuse or other nonfood products 
which, when so transported, would make such food, food addi-
tives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics unsafe to the health of 
humans or animals. 
(2) TREATMENT AS NONFOOD PRODUCTS.—If a drug, device, or 
cosmetic is transported in a motor or rail vehicle at the same 
time or before a food or food additive is transported in such 
vehicle, the Secretary shall treat such drug, device, or cosmetic 
as a nonfood product if such transportation would make such 
food or food additive unsafe to the health of humans or animals. 
(b) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS.—In issuing regulations under subsec-
tion (a)(1), the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall estab-
lish standards, requirements, and other provisions relating to— 
(1) appropriate recordkeeping, identification, marking, certifi-
cation, or other means of verification required to promote 
compliance with the requirements of sections 5, 6, and 7; 
(2) appropriate decontamination, removal, disposal, and isola-
tion standards with respect to regulations implementing sec-
tions 5 and 6; and 
(3) appropriate materials for construction of tank trucks, rail 
tank cars, cargo tanks, and accessory equipment to comply with 
regulations implementing section 5. 
(c) CONSIDERATIONS.—In issuing regulations under subsection 
(a)(1), the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agri-
culture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall con-
sider each of the following and may establish standards, require-
ments, or other provisions relating to any or all of the following: 
(1) The extent to which packaging or similar means of protect-
ing and isolating commodities are adequate to ameliorate or 
eliminate the potential risks of transporting food, food addi-
tives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics in motor vehicles or rail 
vehicles used to transport nonfood products. If packaging stand-
ards are found to be adequate by the Secretary, regulations 
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issued under subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to food, food 
additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics or nonfood products 
which are packaged in packages which meet such standards. 
(2) Appropriate compliance and enforcement measures for 
carrying out this Act. 
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(3) Appropriate minimum insurance or other liability require-
ments for any person covered by this Act. 
(d) DEADLINES.—The rulemaking proceeding referred to in subsec-
tion (a)(1) shall be initiated within 30 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. The regulations referred to in subsection (a)(1) 
shall be issued within 270 days after such date of enactment. 
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(a) PROHIBITION.—At a minimum, the regulations issued under 
section 4(a)(1) shall prohibit any person from using, offering for use, 
or arranging for the use of a tank truck, rail tank car, or cargo tank 
used in motor vehicle transportation or rail transportation of food, 
food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics, if such tank truck, rail 
tank car, or cargo tank is used to transport a nonfood product (other 
than any nonfood product which is included on a list published 
under subsection (b)). 
(b) LIST OF ACCEPTABLE NONFOOD PRODUCTS.—The Secretary, in Federal 
consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Register, 
Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the Environ- Publication, 
mental Protection Agency, shall publish in the Federal Register a 
list of nonfood products which the Secretary has determined do not 
make food, food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics unsafe to the 
health of humans or animals as a result of transportation in a tank 
truck, rail tank car, or cargo tank which is used to transport food, 
food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics. The Secretary may 
periodically amend such list by publication in the Federal Register. 
(c) IDENTIFICATION.—The regulations issued under section 4(a)(1) 
shall, at a minimum, provide that— 
(1) no person shall use, offer for use, or arrange for the use of 
a tank truck or a cargo tank to provide motor vehicle transpor-
tation of only food, food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics or 
nonfood products which are included on the list published under 
subsection (b) unless such tank truck or cargo tank is identified, 
by a permanent marking on such tank truck or cargo tank, as 
transporting such food, food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmet-
ics or nonfood products; 
(2) no person shall use, offer for use, or arrange for the use of 
a tank truck or a cargo tank to provide motor vehicle transpor-
tation of a nonfood product which is not included on the list 
published under subsection (b) if such tank truck or cargo tank 
is identified pursuant to paragraph (1) as a tank truck or cargo 
tank transporting only food, food additives, drugs, devices, or 
cosmetics and nonfood products included on such a list; and 
(3) no person shall receive, except for lawful disposal pur-
poses, any food, food additive, drug, device, or cosmetic or 
nonfood product which has been transported in a tank truck or 
cargo tank in violation of paragraph (1) or (2). 
(d) DISCLOSURE.—Any person who arranges for the use of a tank 
truck or a cargo tank used in motor vehicle transportation for the 
transportation of a food, food additive, drug, device, or cosmetic or 
nonfood product shall in making such arrangement disclose to the 
motor carrier or other appropriate person if the food, food additive, 
drug, device, or cosmetic or nonfood product being transported is to 
be used— 
(1) £is, or in the preparation of, a food or food additive, or 
(2) as a nonfood product which is included in the list published 
under subsection (b). 
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2805. 
Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
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2806. 
Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
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2807. 
SEC. 6. MOTOR AND RAIL TRANSPORTATION OF NONFOOD PRODUCTS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—At a minimum, the regulations issued under 
section 4(a)(1) shall prohibit any person from using, offering for use, 
or arranging for the use of a motor vehicle or a rail vehicle, other 
than a tank truck, rail tank car, or cargo tank described in section 5, 
to provide transportation of food, food additives, drugs, devices, or 
cosmetics, if such vehicle is used to transport nonfood products 
included on a list published under subsection (b). 
(b) LIST OF UNACCEPTABLE NONFOOD PRODUCTS.— 
(1) PuBUCATiON.—The Secretary, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, shall publish in the Federal Register a list of 
nonfood products which the Secretary has determined would 
make food, food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics unsafe to 
the health of humans or animals as a result of transportation in 
a motor vehicle or rail vehicle which is used to transport food, 
food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics. The Secretary may 
periodically amend the list by publication in the Federal Reg-
ister. 
(2) CARDBOARD, PALLETS, BEVERAGE CONTAINERS, AND OTHER 
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D PACKAGING.—The list published under paragraph (1) shall 
not include cardboard, pallets, beverage containers, and other 
food packaging except to the extent the Secretary determines 
that the transportation of cardboard, pallets, beverage contain-
ers, or other food packaging in a motor vehicle or rail vehicle 
which is used to transport food, food additives, drugs, devices, or 
cosmetics would make the food, food additives, drugs, devices, or 
cosmetics unsafe to the health of humans or animals. 
SEC. 7. DEDICATED VEHICLES. 
At a minimum, the regulations issued under section 4(a)(1) shall 
prohibit any person from using, offering for use, or arranging for the 
use of a motor vehicle or rail vehicle to provide transportation of 
asbestos, in forms or quantities determined by the Secretary to be 
necessary, or of products which present an extreme danger to 
human or animal health, despite any decontamination, removal, 
disposal, packaging, or other isolation procedures, unless such motor 
vehicle or rail vehicle is used only to provide transportation of one 
or more of the following: asbestos, such extremely dangerous prod-
ucts, refuse. The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall pub-
lish in the Federal Register a list of the products covered by this 
section. The Secretary may periodically amend such list by publica-
tion in the Federal Register. 
SEC. 8. WAIVER AUTHORITY. 
The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency, may waive, in 
whole or in part, application of any provision of this Act or any 
regulations issued under this Act with respect to any class of 
persons, class of motor vehicles, class of rail vehicles, class of food, 
food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics, class of refuse, or class of 
nonfood products, if the Secretary determines that such waiver 
would not result in transportation of food, food additives, drugs. 
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devices, or cosmetics that would be unsafe to human or animal 
health and otherwise is not contrary to the public interest and this 
Act. Any waiver under this section shall be published in the Federal 
Register, together with the reasons for such waiver. 
SEC. 9. FOOD TRANSPORTATION INSPECTIONS. 
(a) INSPECTION AUTHORITY.—With respect to commercial motor 
vehicles, the Secretary may carry out the requirements of this Act 
and assist in carrying out compatible State laws and regulations 
through means that include inspections conducted by State employ-
ees which are funded with money authorized under sections 402 
through 404 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (49 
U.S.C. App. 2302-2304) to carry out the motor carrier safety assist-
ance program, if the recipient States agree to assist in the enforce-
ment of this Act or are enforcing compatible State laws and regula-
tions. 
(b) ASSISTANCE OF OTHER AGENCIES.—Upon request by the Sec-
retary, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies 
shall provide assistance, to the extent such assistance is available, to 
the Secretary for the purpose of carr5dng out this Act, including 
assistance in the training of personnel under a program established 
under subsection (c). 
(c) TRAINING PROGRAM.—The Secretary, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
and the heads of appropriate State transportation and food safety 
agencies, shall develop and carry out a training program for inspec-
tors to conduct vigorous enforcement of this Act and regulations 
issued under this Act or compatible State laws and regulations. As 
part of such training program, the inspectors, including State 
inspectors or personnel paid with funds under the motor carrier 
safety assistance program, shall be trained in the recognition of 
adulteration problems associated with the transportation of food, 
food additives, drugs, devices, and cosmetics and in the procedures 
for securing the assistance of the appropriate Federal and State 
agencies to support such enforcement. 
SEC. 10. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY. 
The Secretary shall have the same powers, duties, and authorities 
under this Act with respect to transportation regulated under this 
Act as the Secretary has under section 109 (other than subsections 
(c)(1), (d), and (e) of such section) of the Hazardous Materials 
Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. App. 1801 et seq.) with respect to 
transportation regulated under such Act. 
SEC. 11. VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES, AND SPECIFIC RELIEF. 
(a) VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES.—Civil and criminal violations of regu-
lations or orders issued under this Act shall be determined, and civil 
and criminal penalties for such violations shall be imposed, in the 
same manner and to the same extent that violations are determined 
and penalties are imposed under section 110 of the Hazardous 
Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. App. 1809). 
(b) EQUITABLE RELIEF.—The Secretary shall request equitable 
relief and take action to eliminate or ameliorate an imminent 
hazard with respect to any violation of regulations issued under this 
Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
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2808. 
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2809. 
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2810. 
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Indians. 
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2811. 
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2812. 
Effective dates. 
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2801 note. 
Motor Carrier 
Safety Act of 
1990. 
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2501 note. 
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1814. 
Act, or of an order issued under this Act, in the same manner and to 
the same extent that the Secretary is authorized to take under 
section 111 of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 
U.S.C. App. 1810). 
SEC. 12. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS. 
The provisions of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 
U.S.C. App. 1801 et seq.) relating to the relationship of that Act to a 
law, regulation, order, ruling, provision, or other requirement of a 
State or political subdivision thereof or of an Indian tribe shall 
apply with respect to the relationship of this Act to a law, regula-
tion, order, ruling, provision, or other requirement of a State or 
political subdivision thereof or of an Indian tribe which concerns a 
subject covered under this Act. 
SEC. 13. COORDINATION PROCEDURES. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary, after consultation with appropriate State officials, shall 
establish procedures to promote more effective coordination between 
the agencies of the United States and agencies of the States with 
regulatory authority over motor carrier safety and railroad safety 
with respect to implementation and enforcement of this Act, 
SEC. 14. APPLICABILITY. 
This Act shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, 
except that sections 11 and 12 shall only apply to transportation 
occurring on or after the date that regulations issued under section 
4(a)(1) take effect. 
SEC. 15. MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the "Motor Carrier 
Safety Act of 1990". 
(b) MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY RATINGS.— 
(1) AMENDMENT.—The Hazardous Materials Transportation 
Act (49 U.S.C, App. 1801 et seq.) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section: 
"SEC. 117. UNSATISFACTORY SAFETY RATINGS. 
"(a) PROHIBITION ON TRANSPORTATION.—Effective January 1, 1991, 
if a motor carrier receives a safety rating from the Secretary which 
is unsatisfactory, such motor carrier shall have 45 days to take such 
action as may be necessary to improve such safety rating to condi-
tional or satisfactory. After the last day of such 45-day period, if 
such motor carrier has not received a safety rating from the Sec-
retary which is conditional or satisfactory, such motor carrier shall 
not operate a commercial motor vehicle (as defined in section 204(1) 
of the Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984)— 
"(1) to provide transportation of hazardous materials for 
which placarding of motor vehicles is required in accordance 
with the regulations issued under this title, or 
"(2) to transport more than 15 passengers, including the 
driver, 
until such motor carrier has received such a safety rating from the 
Secretary. 
"(b) REVIEW OF RATING.—If a motor carrier who has received an 
unsatisfactory safety rating from the Secretary requests the Sec-
retary to review the conditions and other factors which resulted in 
such motor carrier receiving the unsatisfactory safety rating, the 
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Secretary shall conduct such review within 30 days after the date of 
such request. 
"(c) PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL AGENCY USE.—NO Federal agency 
may use a motor carrier who has an unsatisfactory safety rating 
from the Secretary— 
"(1) to provide transportation of hazardous materials for 
which placarding of motor vehicles is required in accordance 
with the regulations issued under this title, or 
"(2) to transport more than 15 passengers, including the 
driver.". 
(2) PUBUC AVAILABIUTY OF SAFETY RATINGS.—Not later t h a n 1 Regulations. 
year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in 
consultation with the Interstate Commerce Commission, shall 
issue a final rule amending the Federal motor carrier safety 
regulations contained in subchapter B of chapter III of title 49, 
Code of Federal Regulations, to establish a system to make 
readily available to the public, and to periodically update, the 
safety ratings of motor carriers which have been assigned un-
satisfactory safety ratings by the Secretary. 
(c) IMMINENT HAZARDS TO SAFETY.—Not later than January 1 of Reports. 
1992 and 1993, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report 
describing the actions taken under section 521(bX5) of title 49, 
United States Code, with respect to any violation, or combination of 
violations, that poses an imminent hazard to safety. 
(d) PROCEDURES TO ENSURE TIMELY CORRECTION OF SAFETY VIOLA-
TIONS.— 
(1) ISSUANCE OF FINAL RULE.—The Secretary shall, within 9 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, issue a final rule 
establishing procedures to ensure the proper and timely correc-
tion of commercial motor vehicle safety violations noted during 
inspections funded with moneys authorized under section 404 of 
the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (49 U.S.C. 
App. 2304) to carry out the motor carrier safety assistance 
program. 
(2) VERIFICATION PROGRAM,—Such final rule shall establish a 
verification program for Federal inspectors and States which 
are participating in the motor carrier safety gissistance program 
to ensure that commercial motor vehicles and operators thereof 
found in violation of safety requirements have subsequently 
been brought into compliance with such safety requirements. 
The final rule shall, among other things, institute— 
(A) a nationwide system for random reinspection of the 
commercial motor vehicles and operators thereof that have 
been declared out-of-service as a result of such safety viola-
tions, the main purpose of which system shall be to verify 
that the violations have been corrected on a timely basis; 
(B) a program of accountability for correcting all safety 
violations, which shall provide that— 
(i) the operator of a commercial motor vehicle for 
which a safety violation has been noted shall be issued 
a form prescribed by the Secretary; 
(ii) the making of the repairs necessary to correct 
such violation and the date, location, and time of such 
repairs shall be certified on such form by the person 
making such repairs; 
(iii) the motor carrier responsible for such commer-
cial motor vehicle or operator shall certify on such 
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form that, based on the knowledge of the carrier, the 
repairs necessary to correct such violation have been 
made; and 
(iv) appropriate State penalties shall be assessed for 
false statements on such forms or for failure to return 
such forms to the appropriate State entity; and 
(C) a system for ensuring that appropriate State penalties 
are assessed for failure to correct any such safety violation. 
(e) SERIOUS SAFETY VIOLATIONS.— 
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
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(A) the present system for ensuring compliance with 
Federal motor carrier safety laws and regulations needs 
improvement; 
(B) relying primarily upon voluntary compliance methods 
has not resulted in an acceptable level of commercial motor 
vehicle safety; and 
(C) improvements in the existing enforcement authorities 
are required to bring about greater safety. 
(2) OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES.—In light of the findings in 
parEigraph (1), section 521(b)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by redesignating the existing text as subparagraph 
(A); and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 
Records. 
"(B) The Secretary shall, not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this subparagraph, establish operational procedures to 
require a highway safety specialist or other appropriate representa-
tive of the Secretary to initiate, at the time of a safety review, 
compliance review, or other inspection or audit activity, or within a 
reasonable time thereafter, an enforcement action whenever any of 
the offenses referred to in paragraph (2) (A) and (B) can be docu-
mented, except recordkeeping violations not specified by the Sec-
retary as serious. The procedures shall— 
"(i) specify those serious recordkeeping violations for which 
an enforcement action shall be initiated, including instances in 
which the falsification of records of duty status or drivers' 
medical certificates is required or permitted, and such other 
recordkeeping violations as the Secretary determines to be 
serious; and 
"(ii) authorize, but not require, initiation of an enforcement 
action for recordkeeping violations not specified by the Sec-
retary as serious.". 
(f) TRUCK VISIBILITY.— 
(1) INITIATION OF RULEMAKING PROCEEDING.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
initiate a rulemaking proceeding on the need to adopt methods 
for making trucks or any category of trucks more visible to 
motorists so as to reduce accidents, particularly at night, taking 
into consideration such factors as truck illumination and truck 
color. 
(2) COMPLETION OF PROCEEDING.—The proceeding under this 
subsection shall be completed not later than 2 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act or, if the Secretary determines 
that it is not feasible to complete the proceeding within such 2-
year period, such proceeding may be extended by the Secretary 
for up to 1 additional year. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 
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(1) COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE.—The term "commercial 
motor vehicle" has the meaning given such term in section 
204(1) of the Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984 (49 U.S.C. App. 
2503(1)). 
(2) TRUCK.—The term "truck" means a commercial motor 
vehicle that meets the description set forth in section 204(1) (A) 
or (C) of the Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984 (49 U.S.C. App. 
2503(1) (A) or (O). 
Approved November 3, 1990. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3386 (S. 2393): 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 101-390 Pt. 1 (Ck>mm. on Public Works and Transportation) 
and Pt. 2 (Comm. on Energy and Ck>mmerce). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 101-332 accompanying S. 2393 (Ck)mm. on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 136 (1990): 
Mar. 27, considered and passed House. 
Sept. 20, considered and passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 2393. 
Oct. 15, House concurred in Senate amendment with amendments. 
Oct. 19, Senate concurred in House amendments.