[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4102 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4102

    To provide regulatory relief for certain farm transportation of 
                          hazardous materials.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 1996

    Mr. Ewing (for himself, Mr. Buyer, Mr. Poshard, Mr. Barcia, Mr. 
    Hastert, Mr. Latham, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Ganske, Mr. 
    Bereuter, Mr. Bunning of Kentucky, Mr. Gillmor, Mr. Weller, Mr. 
 McIntosh, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Mr. Lightfoot, Mr. Coble, Mr. Boehner, 
   Mr. Leach, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Barrett of 
 Nebraska, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Rose, Mr. Lucas of Oklahoma, 
Mr. Combest, Mr. McHugh, and Mr. Towns) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide regulatory relief for certain farm transportation of 
                          hazardous materials.

    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 ``Farm Transportation Regulatory 
Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON REGULATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION MATERIAL 
              TRANSPORTATION.

    (a) In General.--Any regulation issued by the Department of 
Transportation relating to the transportation of agricultural 
production material as a hazardous material under chapter 51 of title 
49, United States Code, shall not prohibit a State from providing an 
exception from the hazardous materials transportation regulations for 
farmers and retailers who are providing not-for-hire intrastate 
transportation of an agricultural production material from a source of 
supply to a farm, from a farm to another farm, from a field to another 
field on a farm, or from the farm back to the source of supply.
    (b) Agricultural Production Material Defined.--In this section, the 
term ``agricultural production material'' means a hazardous material 
that is used to support the production of an agricultural commodity and 
includes pesticides, fertilizers, and fuels.
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