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SECURITY - USA - DC Council Passes Bill to Reroute Hazardous Materials
Washington,USA - OMB WATCH - 02/07/2005: -- Last week, the City Council of Washington, DC, voted 10–1, to enact emergency legislation requiring rail companies to reroute hazardous cargo around the city. This legislation, “Terrorism Prevention in Hazardous Materials Transportation Emergency Act of 2005,” will make Washington the first city in the nation requiring companies to route hazardous cargo shipments away from population centers... Washington is not the only city that needs to address the very real security and safety vulnerabilities that come with the shipping of hazardous materials. On a daily basis, trucks, trains, barges and pipelines carry some 800,000 hazardous material shipments throughout the country, with dangers often unknown to many people...
http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/2646/1/1?TopicID=1
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