Transportation of hazardous materials

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Hazardous materials
  • Radioactive materials
  • Disasters and emergency operations
  • Interagency relations
  • Ground transportation
  • Air transportation
  • Water transportation
  • Spills (Pollution)
  • Containers
  • Emergency communication systems
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  GPO 1987 0 - 191-237 ; OTA-SET-304
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404419
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Printing Office
• Abstract:
  This report discusses transportation of all hazardous materials (commodities, ; radioactive materials including spent nuclear fuel, and hazardous wastes) that ; travel by truck, rail, water, or air. The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) ; has identified four paramount policy issue areas for Congressional ; consideration: training, federal/state regulations, public information, and ; containers. Each of these areas is discussed in the following four chapters: ; data and information systems for hazardous materials; containers for hazardous ; materials transportation; hazardous materials transportation regulation; and ; training for hazardous materials transportation enforcement and emergency ; response. The basis for many programs to address these issues already exists, ; but lack of communication and integration between and among different levels of ; government diminishes their effectiveness. Appendices provide further ; information on the following: hazardous waste regulations; U.S. Department of ; Transportation inconsistency rulings; emergency response planning; and acronyms ; and other references. Report includes a comprehensive assessment of the ; regulations, information systems, container safety and training for emergency ; response and enforcement for consideration by Congress as it deliberates on ; reauthorization of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. The link in ; this record leads to a Table of Contents for this document in hypertext that ; will allow the user to view in .pdf format the entire document (272p., 12097K) ; or selected sections.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12689/dot_12689_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.79 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fcf29426c669a67249d8c4c2b6c4a69d222af7dd8eecc1be680f1ffa2bc1d41da2dc39b8cfb13ba56b56c08e5c1e43c4a59f9f33809b7768c7befd48eb46645b