COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION

HOWARD W. CANNON, Nevada, Chairman

Bissell, Keith, commissioner, Tennessee Public Service Commission, vice chair-

man, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, committee

on railroads, accompanied by Pamela Somers

Prepared statement

Questions of the committee and the answers thereto

Cowan, Billy R., Railway Labor Executives' Association; accompanied by Larry

Mann, counsel

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Questions of the committee and the answers thereto

Dempsey, William, president, Association of American Railroads; accompanied

by A.W. Johnston, vice president, maintenance and operations department;

and Mr. Taylor.

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Questions of the committee and the answers thereto

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Questions of the committee and the answers thereto

King, James B., chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; accompanied

by William H. Gossard; and Elmer Garner

Sullivan, John M., administrator, Federal Railroad Administration; accompa-

nied by Bob Parsons, Associate Administrator for Research and Develop-

ment; Joseph Walsh, Associate Administrator, Office of Safety; Lee Santman,

Director, Materials Transportation Bureau; and Kenneth Piersen, Deputy

Director, Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., statement

Goldschmidt, Hon. Neil, Secretary of Transportation, letter of March 21, 1980,

responding to questions of the committee

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Shanaman, Susan M., chairman, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission,
letter of April 25, 1980

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Snyder, J. R., chairman, safety committee, Railway Labor Executives' Associ-
ation, letter of April 3, 1980....

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