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S 2365 113th Congress Senate Transportation and Public Works Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Railroads Surface Transportation Board Transportation safety and security

A bill to prohibit the long-term storage of rail cars on certain railroad tracks unless the Surface Transportation Board has approved the rail carrier's rail car storage plan.

Introduced: May 20, 2014 Introduced by: Klobuchar, Amy Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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May 20, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 20, 2014
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Requires a rail carrier to have a storage plan, meeting specified requirements and approved by the Surface Transportation Board, for any of its rail cars that it stores for three or more years, and continues to store, on tracks (except rail yard or storage yard tracks) that pass through a commercial- or residential-zoned area that were designed or previously used for through transportation of trains.

What's happening now May 20, 2014

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 4689 Related bill To require a plan approved by the Surface Transportation Board for the long-term storage of rail cars on certain railro…
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2365: A bill to prohibit the long-term storage of rail cars on certain railroad tracks unless the Surface Transportation Board has approved the rail carrier's rail car storage plan.. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-2365/
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"S. 2365: A bill to prohibit the long-term storage of rail cars on certain railroad tracks unless the Surface Transportation Board has approved the rail carrier's rail car storage plan.." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-2365/.
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S. 2365, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-2365/.
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