Excerpt from Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act Authorizations: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate Senator cannon. Mr. Chairman, over the past several years, issues relating to the transportation of hazardous materials have been of 1culat concern to the volume 0 shipment of these materials by all modes has been increasing very rapidly, and the number of incidents each year involving transportation of hazardous materials is also increasing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.