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Title: PURPOSE AND DIRECTION OF REGULATION (PART 1)
Accession Number: 00376316
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: It is suggested that Title 49 in its present format has served its purpose. Those portions of Title 49 that pertain exclusively to packaging design and manufacture should be supplanted by performance criteria derived from quantifying the conditions normally incident in transportation and for the accident environment. Those portions of the material in engineering specifications should not be lost, but should be retired and viewed as reference materials. The remainder of the hundreds of pages of regulations would be critically examined in a manner so that conditions not normally incident to transportation could also be accommodated by transportation, environmental design, and transportation system operation. It should be further noted that in no way can the task that has been suggested here be accomplished overnight, nor should it be done in a manner to undermine the credible efforts of existing organizations dedicated to assuring the safe transportation of hazardous materials. These purposes and directions for the hazardous materials transportation regulations should be designed as a parallel, non-Federal Register transportation control strategy. It should be developed by the near complete involvement of all levels of government and industry participation. Once completed, or perhaps with significant portions completed, it could then be phased into existing federal and state programs.
Supplemental Notes: Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. This paper appeared in Transportation Research Special Report No. 197, Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Toward a National Strategy (Volume 2).
Monograph Accession #: 00376315
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Thompson, C HPagination: pp 2-5
Publication Date: 1983
Media Type: Digital/other
TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Sep 30 1983 12:00AM
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