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S 443 114th 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: February 10, 2015 Introduced by: Klobuchar, Amy Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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Feb 10, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Feb 10, 2015
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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 February 10, 2015

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

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 443: 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.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-443/
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"S. 443: 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.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-443/.
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S. 443, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-443/.
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