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Absolutely. So the hours of service rule that was finalized in december of 2011, and as you note, went into full effect last july, is identified with rigorous analysis to project an impact of saving up to 19 lives per year, or at least 19 lives per year, and avoiding at least 500 injury crashes, and then significantly more crashes and overall net benefit to the nation. There was also clearly in the analysis a recognition of the Economic Impact on industry. A recognition and an an analysis that i...

In addition, the grow america act will further build on that 21 successes and support the departments Safety Initiatives by improving pmmsas ability to oversee the safe transportation of Hazardous Materials. It will give phmsa to allow to give orders to industries to cease activities without prior notice in response to emergency situations. Similar authority is already held by fra and phmsa, and increase d. O. T. s ability to stop unsafe conditions or practices that may threaten life, personal i...

Talking about moving Hazardous Materials across the country, the backyards, the main streets of america, both the railroad and Petroleum Industries have been given a public trust, and complying with regulations is not enough. Safety is our ultimate goal. Absolutely, we think it is great when Industries Come together and agree on a cooperative, collaborative basis to take steps that have not yet put into regulations. Do you feel that the railroads negotiated in good faith during the voluntary neg...

Concerns about provisional compliance for the freight line particularly they put them in a competitive disadvantage. Right. It does the opposite, senator. I think thats an important point. I saw your question to the secretary, and were concerned with the issue, too. Two things, one, i think the final rule amendments that are in executive clearance right now are going to partially address those concerns, and then the approach for provisional certification would fully address those concerns. We ag...

Enforce it or do you ignore it . I think thats the bottom line. My time is expired but let me say once again, i thank you an your staff for the process you are going through. It is invaluable to our countrys veterans and to the agency. Senator, thank you very much. Senator tester. I want to thank you, too, for your work and your professionalism. It is very helpful to us so thank you for your work. Your investigations, whether phoenix or the other 93 facilities, is focused on scheduling. Correct ...

You can send us a tweet if you go to twitter. Com cspanwj. On our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Or email us. We will begin with the front page of the Washington Post this is what the attorney general is going to propose, that lowlevel, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or largescale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences. It goes on to say it goes on to say we want to get your thoughts on this. What do you think about...

Listses on our website. So, if you run into somebody, there are some there they can use and actually work relatively well. But the ultimately cities face this all the time. You have to make decisions about what resources you have and what you can and cant do with the resources that you have. And, so, thats going to continue to be a problem. And its always about the decisions, what you can do and what you cant. And while its understandable, as long as theyre abating the graffiti, and i understand...

Art, you cant destroy it now, any area we determine to be a free wall is going to be put on panels that are movable so we wont have any issues with that and were going to be looking at ensuring there are guidelines posted and looking at what type of monitoring of the area can be determined, as well as who is going to be responsible for spillover so were going to try to make the arts council, they are going to have to be responsible for maintaining the property as well as an area outside the prop...

Just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask. When did capital city clean up start . It was launched in 2005 as a Pilot Program focused on litter reduction in the downtown of edmonton. Basically businesses were asked to adopt a block in their area and were responsible for litter clean up in that area and the program had such a hug...

Remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. Although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. What were finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by neighborhood. So the gardineau neighborhood in 2011 had a 77 percent decrease, we saw a 200 percent increase in the neighborhood. That is telling me these are the priority neighborhoods through this year w...