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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 5118. Inspectors
(a) General Requirement. - The Secretary of Transportation shall
maintain the employment of 30 hazardous material safety inspectors
more than the total number of safety inspectors authorized for the
fiscal year that ended September 30, 1990, for the Federal Railroad
Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, and the
Research and Special Programs Administration.
(b) Allocation To Promote Safety in Transporting Radioactive
Material. - (1) The Secretary shall ensure that 10 of the 30
additional inspectors focus on promoting safety in transporting
radioactive material, as defined by the Secretary, including
inspecting -
(A) at the place of origin, shipments of high-level radioactive
waste or nuclear spent material (as those terms are defined in
section 5105(a) of this title); and
(B) to the maximum extent practicable shipments of radioactive
material that are not high-level radioactive waste or nuclear
spent material.
(2) In carrying out their duties, those 10 additional inspectors
shall cooperate to the greatest extent possible with safety
inspectors of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and appropriate
State and local government officials.
(3) Those 10 additional inspectors shall be allocated as follows:
(A) one to the Research and Special Programs Administration.
(B) 3 to the Federal Railroad Administration.
(C) 3 to the Federal Highway Administration.
(D) the other 3 among the administrations referred to in
clauses (A)-(C) of this paragraph as the Secretary decides.
(c) Allocation of Other Inspectors. - The Secretary shall
allocate, as the Secretary decides, the 20 additional inspectors
authorized under this section and not allocated under subsection
(b) of this section among the administrations referred to in
subsection (b)(3)(A)-(C) of this section.
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