COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE,
AND TRANSPORTATION

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

AUTHORIZATIONS FOR RAIL SAFETY ACTIVITIES OF THE
FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION

61-318 O

MARCH 24, 1980

Serial No. 96-97

Printed for the use of the

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1980

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION

HOWARD W. CANNON, Nevada, Chairman

31088/14/80

собие

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CONTENTS

Opening statement by Senator Long

LIST OF WITNESSES

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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1

94

96

100

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92

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

34

Prepared statement

38

72

27

Questions of the committee and the answers thereto

32

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

Prepared statement.

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

responding to questions of the committee'

127

Shanaman, Susan M., chairman, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission,

letter of April 25, 1980.....

155

Snyder, J. R., chairman, safety committee, Railway Labor Executives' Associ-

ation, letter of April 3, 1980.

90

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