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Standing Committee on Rail Transportation

February 2015 Washington, DC

Ron Hynes Director, Office of Technical Oversight Federal Railroad Administration

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Today’s Topics

  • 1. General Update
  • 2. PTC Update
  • 3. RSAC Activities
  • 4. Transportation of Energy

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General Update

  • Sarah Feinberg is serving as Acting

Administrator

  • Important rulemaking and other activities

continue

  • Focus on safety, Crude By Rail, rulemaking

activities

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General Update

  • Working with PHMSA on a new rule
  • Enforcing Safety Regulations, with targeted

areas such as-

– Crude oil transportation – Commuter rail safety – Track and mechanical inspections in targeted areas

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Positive Train Control

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Positive Train Control

  • An FRA Report to Congress is forthcoming
  • Railroads will not make the deadline for PTC

implementation

  • One commuter railroad is nearing completion
  • Many commuter roads are only in the early

stages, some are still contemplating PTC

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Positive Train Control

  • Technical and institutional issues continue to

emerge

  • PTC is very expensive, there has never been

anything like it

  • PTC is a system of systems, reliability and

interoperability is an ongoing concern

  • Antenna issues are slowing down some

installations

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Rail Safety Advisory Committee Update

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Rail Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC)

  • Advisory committee formed under the Federal

Advisory Committee Act

  • Full RSAC meets two or three times per year
  • Next meeting of the RSAC is May 28, 2015
  • Open and transparent process

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RSAC

  • Strives for consensus in working groups and

task forces

  • Develops consensus recommendations for

rulemaking

  • FRA administrator can choose to adopt RSAC

recommendations

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RSAC

  • Full RSAC votes to determine if a new task

should be adopted

  • Smaller working groups address different

technical subjects.

  • May form a task force for certain projects

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RSAC Working Groups

Progress:

  • Recording Device Working Group, March 3-4
  • Rail Integrity Working Group, March 10-12
  • Engineering Task Force, March 17-18
  • Tourist and Historic Equipment Working

Group: Finished with proposed rule, will circulate and vote at next RSAC meeting.

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RAIL TRANSPORTATION OF ENERGY

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Hazardous Materials by Rail

15 1,000,000 1,200,000 1,400,000 1,600,000 1,800,000 2,000,000 2,200,000 2,400,000 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Hazmat originations by year

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100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Annual Originations Year

North American Originations

Source: AAR's Annual Report of Hazmat Transported by Rail Crude oil Ethanol

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17 http://www.delmarvarails.com/NorthernDE/

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Tank Car Safety

  • Quality control of manufacture and servicing

facilities

  • Rail Worthiness Directive for valves
  • CPC 1232 in service now, pending regulations

for new tank cars

  • New tank car requirements will be contained

in a new rule

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  • Mt. Carbon, West Virginia
  • Unit train of crude oil, 109 cars
  • A total of 28 cars derailed
  • Cars 2-6 derailed toward the land-side; line 7-

26 in a general pile-up; line 27-28 derailed across the tracks.

  • All tank cars were constructed to the CPC-

1232 standard (built 2011-2013).

  • Cars were not jacketed.

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Gogama, Ontario, Derailment

  • A CN crude oil unit train with 100 tank cars

derailed on February 14.

  • Of the 29 cars that derailed 27 were unjacketed

CPC1232 cars (built from 2012 to 2014) with half head shield and 2 were jacketed and insulated CPC1232 cars with full head shields.

  • At least 7 cars were breached.
  • The TSB will conduct a tank car investigation.
  • The response was slowed down by harsh weather

and the remoteness of the derailment site (30 miles off any real road).

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Questions?

Ronald.Hynes@dot.gov

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