DOT extends wetline comment period

Feb. 10, 2005
DOT wetline NPRM

The Dept. of Transportation’s Research and Special Programs Administration has extended the comment period for its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to prohibit flammable liquids from being sent through unprotected piping on existing and newly-manufactured DOT spec’d tank motor vehicles to Apr. 28, 2005.

The NPRM was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 30 2004 [RIN 2137-AD36].

See Proposal for new cargo tank safety regs.

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