[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 787 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                 S. 787

To provide an exemption from certain hazardous material transportation 
 regulations for small cargo tank vehicles with a capacity of not more 
  than 3,500 gallons that transport petroleum, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 10 (legislative day, May 1), 1995

   Mr. Burns introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide an exemption from certain hazardous material transportation 
 regulations for small cargo tank vehicles with a capacity of not more 
  than 3,500 gallons that transport petroleum, and for other purposes.
    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 ``Hazardous Materials Regulatory 
Relief Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. SMALL CARGO TANK VEHICLE EXEMPTION.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall exclude from the application 
of any regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Transportation 
pursuant to chapter 51 of title 49, United States Code, pertaining to 
the maintenance, reconditioning, repair, inspection, or testing of 
packages, or any other function having an effect on the continuing 
qualification and use of packaging, any cargo tank vehicle that--
            (1) has a capacity of not more than 3,500 gallons; and
            (2) is used to transport petroleum products in intrastate 
        or interstate transportation within a 100 air-mile radius of 
        the principal place of business of the owner or lessee of the 
        cargo tank vehicle.
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