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 PUBLIC LAW 101-615—NOV. 16, 1990 104 STAT. 3255 "(B) Use and limitations of the Department of Transportation hazardous materials placarding, labeling, and marking systems. "(C) General handling procedures, loading and unloading techniques, and strategies to reduce the probability of release or damage during or incidental to transportation of hazardous materials. "(D) Health, safety, and risk factors associated with hazardous materials and their transportation. "(E) Appropriate emergency response and communication procedures for dealing with accidents and incidents involving hazardous materials transportation. "(F) Use of the Department of Transportation Emergency Response Guidebook and recognition of its limitations or use of equivalent documents and recognition of the limitations of such documents. "(G) Applicable hazardous materials transportation regulations. "(H) Personal protection techniques. "(I) Preparation of shipping documents for transportation of hazardous materials. " (7) APPLICABILITY OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT REQUIRE- MENTS.—Chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (relating to coordination of Federal information policy) shall not apply to activities of the Secretary under this subsection.". SEC. 8. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION REGISTRATION; MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY PERMITS. Section 106 (49 U.S.C. App. 1805), as amended by section 7, is amended by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsections: " (c) REGISTRATION. — "(1) MANDATORY FILINGS. —Each person who carries out one or more of the following activities shall file with the Secretary a registration statement in accordance with the provisions of this subsection: "(A) Transporting or causing to be transported or shipped in commerce highway-route controlled quantities of radioactive materials, more than 25 kilograms of CIEISS A or class B explosives in a motor vehicle, rail car, or transport container, or more than 1 liter per package of a hazardous material which has been designated by the Secretary as extremely toxic by inhalation. "(B) Transporting or causing to be transported or shipped in commerce a hazardous material in a bulk package, container, or tank as defined by the Secretary if the package, container, or tank has a capacity of 3,500 or more gallons or more than 468 cubic feet. "(C) Transporting or causing to be transported or shipped in commerce a shipment of 5,000 pounds or more of a class of a hazardous material for which placarding of a vehicle, rail car, or freight container is required in accordance with the regulations issued under this title. "(2) COOPERATION OF EPA.—The Administrator shall assist the Secretary in carrying out this subsection by furnishing the Secretary with such information as the Secretary may request in order to carry out the objectives of this section.

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