TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS BY AIR United States. Congress. House. Coppittie on HEARING BEFORE A 4 Copy 1976 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 8, 1975 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations 62-325 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1975 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS JACK BROOKS, Texas, Chairman L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island FLOYD V. HICKS, Washington DON FUQUA, Florida JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan BELLA S. ABZUG, New York JAMES V. STANTON, Ohio LEO J. RYAN, California JOHN L. BURTON, California RICHARDSON PREYER, North Carolina MICHAEL HARRINGTON, Massachusetts ROBERT F. DRINAN, Massachusetts EDWARD MEZVINSKY, Iowa BARBARA JORDAN, Texas GLENN ENGLISH, Oklahoma ELLIOTT H. LEVITAS, Georgia ANTHONY MOFFETT, Connecticut FRANK HORTON, New York PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY, JR., California ALAN STEELMAN, Texas JOEL PRITCHARD, Washington ROBERT W. KASTEN, JR., Wisconsin WILLIS D. GRADISON, JR., Ohio WILLIAM M. JONES, General Counsel J. P. CARLSON, Minority Counsel GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES AND TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE WM. J. RANDALL, Missouri, Chairman KF27 CONTENTS Hearing held on October 8, 1975----- Ferrarese, Joseph A., Deputy Director, Flight Standards Service, Fed- eral Aviation Administration; accompanied by Curtis McKay, Chief, O'Donnell, Capt. John J., president, Air Line Pilots Association; accom- panied by Capt. James A. Echols, chairman, hazardous materials committee; and Daniel Katz, staff attorney.. Reed, John H., Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; accompanied by Fritz L. Puls, General Counsel; Ludwig Benner, Jr., Chief, Hazardous Materials Safety Division; and James T. Childs, Safety Recommendations Manager, Bureau of Aviation Safety__ Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by- Curtis, James T., Jr., Director, Materials Transportation Bureau, Ferrarese, Joseph A., Deputy Director, Flight Standards Service, Fed- eral Aviation Administration: Exchange of letters dated March 26 and 29, 1974, between Chairman John H. Reed and Administrator Alexander P. Butterfield, re safety recommendation (s) A-74-20 Randall, Hon. Wm. J., a Representative in Congress from the State of Missouri, and chairman, Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee: Public Law 93-633_ Reed, John H., Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board: Sep- tember 25, 1975, letter to William T. Coleman, Jr., Secretary of Transportation, re safety recommendation (s), HM-75-1 and 2__ 50-54 Appendix 1.-FAA submissions to additional subcommittee questions---- Appendix 2.-New exemption procedures of the Materials Transportation Bureau (excerpt from the Federal Register of October 15, 1975) –. Appendix 3.-Documents relating to the transportation of radioactive materials on passenger-carrying aircraft____. Appendix 4.-Information relating to January 30, 1974, hazardous mate- rials incident at National Airport, Washington, D.C-- |