Action
Final rule.
Summary
In July 1992, RSPA published a final rule establishing a national registration and fee assessment program for persons offering for transportation or transporting certain categories and quantities of hazardous materials in intrastate, interstate, and foreign commerce. The fees collected under the registration program are to fund a grant program to enhance State, Indian tribal, and local hazardous materials emergency preparedness and response activities. This final rule adopts certain changes to the current registration program effective July 1, 1994, the beginning of the next registration year. The changes delay the requirement for foreign offerors to register and require a merchant vessel carrier to maintain the Certificate of Registration on board each vessel carrying hazardous materials subject to the registration requirements or to annotate its registration number on any document readily available to enforcement personnel.