Section 25547.2 Of Article 5. Spill Prevention And Response For Railroads From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 20. >> Chapter 6.95. >> Article 5.
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. (a) No later than January 31, 2015, and every three months
thereafter, a rail carrier shall prepare and submit to the office
commodity flow data for the prior three months broken down by county
and track route relevant to the 25 largest hazardous material
commodities transported through the state, including tank cars loaded
with oil cargo. The commodity flow data shall conform to all of the
following:
(1) Be in accordance with Subpart G of Part 172 of Title 49 of the
Code of Federal Regulations and in Standard Transportation Commodity
Code numeric sequence.
(2) Include a description of the hazardous material or oil cargo
and commodity name organized by number of carload type, including
tank cars and gondola cars, intermodal loads, including trailers,
containers and tank containers, and total loads transported within a
county over the prior three months.
(b) The office shall provide access to commodity flow data as
authorized by Part 15 (commencing with Section 15.1), Part 1520
(commencing with Section 1520.1), and Part 172 (commencing with
Section 172.1) of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations and
Section 11904 of Title 49 of the United States Code.
(c) (1) Beginning January 31, 2015, consistent with the United
States Department of Transportation's Emergency Order Docket No.
DOT-OST-2014-0067, and any subsequent amendments to that order, a
rail carrier shall prospectively estimate and submit to the office
notification of the weekly movements of trains through a county,
including, but not limited to, track route and volumes of shipments
of Bakken oil in amounts equal to or greater than one million
(1,000,000) gallons per train consist. A rail carrier shall update
the notification provided pursuant to this paragraph once every six
months.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a rail carrier shall update and
notify the office within 30 days of the rail carrier determining
that there will be a material change in the estimated volume of
Bakken oil plus or minus 25 percent per week relative to the most
recent estimate previously submitted to the office.
(d) The office shall disseminate information necessary for
developing emergency response plans from the reports prepared
pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (c) in whole or in summary form to a
unified program agency, as defined in Section 25501, when the office
determines a unified program agency area of responsibility may be
impacted by a hazardous material or oil cargo spill. Rail carriers
shall provide additional information to the office related to the
specific commodity flow data and Bakken oil to assist a unified
program agency with its emergency response planning.