For the first time in 14 years, federal officials have updated the nation's list of roadways where states restrict the transport of hazardous materials, reports pressconnects.com.
But rather than close a long-standing regulatory gap affecting hazardous materials shipments outside New York City, the new rules only serve to reinforce it.
And in a peculiar regulatory twist, the New York City Fire Department is designated in the new71-page Hazardous Materials Route Registryas the the only agency with authority to decide where hazmat can be shipped in New York State.
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