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Transportation of Hazardous Materials by Rail; Miscellaneous Amendments; Response to Petitions for Reconsideration

Final rule; Response to petitions for reconsideration.

RSPA is publishing a June 28, 1996 letter in which it denied petitions for reconsideration of a provision in the June 5, 1996 final rule in this proceeding which allowed rail shippers and carriers to discontinue use of the RESIDUE placard on June 30, 1996, three months in advance of the effective date of the June 5 final rule.

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