104 STAT. 3244 PUBLIC LAW 101-615—NOV. 16, 1990 Public Law 101-615 101st Congress An Act Nov. 16, 1990 [S. 2936] Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990. 49 USC app. 1801 note. 49 USC app. 1801 note. To amend the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1990, 1991, and 1992, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE,—This Act may be cited as the "Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990". (b) REFERENCE.— Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the ref- erence shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. (c) TABLE OF CONTENTS. — Sec. 1. Short title; reference; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Definitions. Sec. 4. Federal regulations governing transportation of hazardous materials. Sec. 5. Representation and tampering. Sec. 6. Disclosure. Sec. 7. Hfmdling of hazardous materials. Sec. 8. Hazardous materials transportation registration; motor carrier safety permits. Sec. 9. Exemptions. Sec. 10. Definition of certain materials. Sec. 11. Secretary's powers. Sec. 12. Penalties. Sec. 13. Relationship to other laws. Sec. 14. Funding. Sec. 15. Transportation of certain highly radioactive materials. Sec. 16. Inspectors. Sec. 17. Public sector training and planning. Sec. 18. Hfizmat employee training grant program. Sec. 19. Railroad tank cars. Sec. 20. Application of Federal, State, and local law to Federal contractors. Sec. 21. Railroad tank car study. Sec. 22. Uniformity of State motor carrier registration and permitting forms and procedures. Sec. 23. Financial responsibility. Sec. 24. Federally leased commercial motor vehicles. Sec. 25. Improvements to hazardous materials identification systems. Sec. 26. Continually monitored telephone systems. Sec. 27. Shipper responsibility report. Sec. 28. State participation in investigations and surveillance. Sec. 29. Retention of markings and placards. Sec. 30. Relationship to Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970. Sec. 31. Effective date. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Transportation estimates that approximately 4 billion tons of regulated hazardous materials are transported each year and that approximately 500,000 movements of hsizardous materials occur each day.
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