[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2204 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2204

 To clarify the authority of States and political subdivisions thereof 
to regulate liquefied petroleum gas rail transload facilities that are 
          owned or operated by or on behalf of a rail carrier.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To clarify the authority of States and political subdivisions thereof 
to regulate liquefied petroleum gas rail transload facilities that are 
          owned or operated by or on behalf of a rail carrier.

    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 ``Safe Communities Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. JURISDICTION OF THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD.

    Section 10501(c) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
                subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting before subparagraph (B), as so 
                redesignated, the following new subparagraph:
            ``(A) the term `liquefied petroleum gas rail transload 
        facility' means the portion of a facility owned or operated by 
        or on behalf of a rail carrier where liquefied petroleum gas, 
        as a commodity to be transported for a charge, is collected, 
        stored, separated, processed, treated, managed, disposed of, or 
        transferred, but such term does not include activities taking 
        place at such portion that are comprised solely of the railroad 
        transportation of liquefied petroleum gas after the liquefied 
        petroleum gas is loaded for shipment on or in a rail car, 
        including railroad transportation for the purpose of 
        interchanging railroad cars containing liquefied petroleum 
        gas;''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``or'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (A);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of 
                subparagraph (B) and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
            ``(C) a liquefied petroleum gas rail transload facility.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall be effective as of July 1, 
2013.
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