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Press Release

News Digest DOT 96-16

PHMSA Seeks Comment on Insurance for Railroad Carriers Transporting Hazardous Materials.  The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today issued a...

Invitation/Announcement

Minimum Content Requirements

The goal of the minimum content standard is to include only the information needed to identify an address as well as some basic identifying/metadata information about the address. The objective is...