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49 U.S.C. § 20155 — Tank cars

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49 U.S.C. § 20155 — Tank cars

**(a) Standards.—** The Federal Railroad Administration shall— (1) validate a predictive model to quantify the relevant dynamic forces acting on railroad tank cars under accident conditions within 1 year after the date of enactment of this section; and (2) initiate a rulemaking to develop and implement appropriate design standards for pressurized tank cars within 18 months after the date of enactment of this section. **(b) Older Tank Car Impact Resistance Analysis and Report.—** Within 1 year after the date of enactment of this section the Federal Railroad Administration shall conduct a comprehensive analysis to determine the impact resistance of the steels in the shells of pressure tank cars constructed before 1989. Within 6 months after completing that analysis the Administration shall transmit a report, including recommendations for reducing any risk of catastrophic fracture and separation of such cars, to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.

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44 U.S.C. § 3572 — Confidential information protection

**(a) Purposes.—** The purposes of this section are the following: (1) To ensure that information supplied by individuals or organizations to an agency for statistical purposes under a pledge of confidentiality is used exclusively for statistical purposes. (2) To ensure that individuals or organizations who supply information under a pledge of confidentiality to agencies for statistical purposes will neither have that information disclosed in identifiable form to anyone not authorized by this subchapter nor have that information used for any purpose other than a statistical purpose. (3) To safeguard the confidentiality of individually identifiable information acquired under a pledge of confidentiality for statistical purposes by controlling access to, and uses made of, such information. **(b) Use of Statistical Data or Information.—** Data or information acquired by an agency under a pledge of confidentiality and for exclusively statistical purposes shall be used by officers, employees, or agents of the agency exclusively for statistical purposes and protected in accordance with such pledge. **(c) Disclosure of Statistical Data or Information.—** (1) Data or information acquired by an agency under a pledge of confidentiality for exclusively statistical purposes shall not be disclosed by an agency in identifiable form, for any use other than an exclusively statistical purpose, except with the informed consent of the respondent. (2) A disclosure pursuant to paragraph (1) is authorized only when the head of the agency approves such disclosure and the disclosure is not prohibited by any other law. (3) This section does not restrict or diminish any confidentiality protections in law that otherwise apply to data or information acquired by an agency under a pledge of c

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44 U.S.C. § 101 — Joint Committee on Printing: membership

The Joint Committee on Printing shall consist of the chairman and four members of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the chairman and four members of the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives.

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5 U.S.C. § 101 — Executive departments

The Executive departments are:

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49 U.S.C. § 20155 — Tank cars

Page 584 TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION [§ 20154 any supplementary safety measures must be ap- plied to all highway-rail grade crossings within a specified distance along the railroad in order to be excepted from the requirement of this sec- tion. (d) APPLICATION FOR WAIVER OR EXEMPTION.— Notwithstanding any other provision of this sub- chapter, the Secretary may not entertain an ap- plication for waiver or exemption of the regula- tions issued under this section unless such appli- cation shall have been submitted jointly by the railroad carrier owning, or controlling oper- ations over, the crossing and by the appropriate traffic control authority or law enforcement au- thority. The Secretary shall not grant any such application unless, in the judgment of the Sec- retary, the application demonstrates that the safety of highway users will not be diminished. (e) DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPLEMENTARY SAFETY MEASURES.—(1) In order to promote the quiet of communities affected by rail operations and the development of innovative safety measures at highway-rail grade crossings, the Secretary may, in connection with demonstration of pro- posed new supplementary safety measures, order railroad carriers operating over one or more crossings to cease temporarily the sounding of locomotive horns at such crossings. Any such measures shall have been subject to testing and evaluation and deemed necessary by the Sec- retary prior to actual use in lieu of the loco- motive horn. (2) The Secretary may include in regulations issued under this subsection special procedures for approval of new supplementary safety meas- ures meeting the requirements of subsection (c)(1) of this section following successful dem- onstration of those measures. (f) SPECIFIC RULES.—The Secretary may, by re

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