The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on modernizing regulation to improve safety and efficiency (HM-265A). The agency is soliciting stakeholder feedback on initiatives that may modernize the Hazardous Materials Regulations to improve hazmat transportation efficiency, improve transparency and stakeholder engagement, and better accommodate technological innovations. Read More…

On September 8, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) published a final rule that revises the definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). ACA has been involved in this process since 2015 because of the uncertainty in the definition of WOTUS, since the pre-2015 definition has been challenged in court and reconsidered several times. Read More…

The agency is soliciting feedback through Nov. 22, 2023 to assist in the potential development of initiatives that would ensure the proper management of used industrial containers that held hazardous chemicals or hazardous waste, up to and including the drum reconditioning process. Read More…

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security implements the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program under a variety of short-term authorizations by Congress; and authorization for the current CFATS standards will expire after July 27, 2023, if Congress does not reauthorize the program. Read More…

On July 5, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on modernizing regulation to improve safety and efficiency (HM-265A). The agency is soliciting stakeholder feedback on initiatives that may modernize the Hazardous Materials Regulations to improve hazmat transportation efficiency, improve transparency and stakeholder engagement, and better accommodate technological innovations. Read More…

Last month, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to harmonize the federal Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) with international standards. Read More…