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Chlorine shippers question PTC rule
The Chlorine Institute (CI) fears that the positive train control (PTC) rule, which the FRA published Jan. 14, "drastically underestimates the rules benefits," and it has asked the FRA to re-issue the rule with a corrected cost-benefit analysis, reports Railway Age magazine.

"This faulty analysis could foster a situation that would allow railroads to impose on shippers of chlorine and other toxic inhalation hazard (TIH) chemicals an unfairly large share of the costs of applying PTC technology," said the CI in a petition filed with the FRA.

"The railroads have already announced that they will attempt to recover their investment in PTC from those shippers offering TIH materials for rail movement, CI President Arthur Dungan wrote. These efforts will have a direct and substantial impact on prospective TIH rail shippers and a strong incentive to move TIH shipments from the safer rail mode to the less-safe highway mode of transportation.

Certainly, TIH shippers also will be negatively impacted by the railroads rolling their PTC investments on regulated shipments into their regulatory rate base, thereby leading to a double recovery of PTC costs well into the future

(The preceding article was published March 17, 2010, by Railway Age magazine.)

 

March 17, 2010


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