[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5553 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5553

   To prohibit transportation by rail of crude oil with a Ried vapor 
    pressure of more than 9.5 pounds per square inch, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2020

  Mr. Garamendi (for himself, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Foster, Mrs. 
    Lowey, and Mr. Raskin) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit transportation by rail of crude oil with a Ried vapor 
    pressure of more than 9.5 pounds per square inch, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Crude by Rail Volatility Standard 
Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL STANDARD FOR MAXIMUM CRUDE OIL VOLATILITY.

    (a) In General.--Crude oil may only be transported by rail if the 
oil has a Reid vapor pressure of not more than 9.5 pounds per square 
inch, the maximum volatility set by the New York Mercantile Exchange 
for crude oil futures contracts.
    (b) Application.--Subsection (a) shall apply to the transportation 
of crude oil occurring on and after the date that is 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Crude Oil Volatility Standard.--Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Pipeline 
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration shall issue a final rule 
based on the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking titled ``Hazardous 
Materials: Volatility of Unrefined Petroleum Products and Class 3 
Materials'' and published in the Federal Register on January 18, 2017 
(82 Fed. Reg. 5499).
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