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Industry witnesses tell House panel performance-based rail rules would let technology improve safety
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Industry witnesses at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing urged moving from prescriptive federal rail regulations toward performance- or outcomes-based standards to allow operators flexibility and accommodate new technology, saying some rules date to the steam-engine era.
At a hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, industry witnesses told the panel that federal rail safety rules should move from prescriptive mandates to performance-based standards to allow operators flexibility while maintaining safety. The committee chairman opened by saying, "Purpose of safety regulations should be to achieve safety outcome in the most efficient means possible."
Mr. Jeffers, an industry witness, told the panel the railroad industry is long-established and governed by a body of federal rules that in some cases have not kept pace…
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