[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2422 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2422

    To require railroad carriers to prepare and maintain a plan for 
  notifying local emergency responders before transporting hazardous 
                 materials through their jurisdictions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2007

 Mr. Gonzalez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require railroad carriers to prepare and maintain a plan for 
  notifying local emergency responders before transporting hazardous 
                 materials through their jurisdictions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.

    A railroad carrier shall transmit to the Secretary of 
Transportation, and annually update, a plan for providing notification 
to local emergency responders before transporting hazardous materials 
through their jurisdictions.

SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall establish a requirement that 
railroad carriers periodically demonstrate to the Secretary that the 
procedures set forth in the plan transmitted under section 1 are 
adequate to provide appropriate notice to local emergency responders.
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