The U.S. Department of Transportation-Federal Railroad Administration has extended Exemption 12325-N until June 2006.
This exemption authorizes tank cars, containing hazardous materials, to remain standing with unloading connections attached, provided that a minimum level of monitoring, is maintained and that specially designed hoses, capable of preventing a catastrophic uncontrolled release of product, are utilised.
The use of a Smart-Hose Technologies hose assembly will exempt the user from 49 CFR 173-177-Railcar Unloading Attendance Requirements. This regulation normally provides that rail tank car unloading operations must be performed by a reliable person who has been properly instructed in unloading hazardous materials and attended by the unloader until unloading is completed and that a cargo tank motor vehicle be attended by a qualified person (usually the driver) at all times while it is to ensure the safe loading or unloading of hazardous materials being loaded or unloaded. The purpose of the attendance requirement in section 174.67 is to ensure the safe loading or unloading of hazardous materials and that, in the event of an emergency, such processes can be quickly halted.
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