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PD-1(R): MA, MD, & PA Hazardous Waste Vehicle Bonding Requirements

Jul 17, 1991

Preemption Description

State: Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania

Decision: 57 FR 58848
December 12, 1992

Action on Petition to Reconsider: 58 FR 32418
June 9, 1993

Docket #

Filing Date

Applicant

Subject Summary

Ruling Status

Disposition

PDA-1(R)
(14602)

7/17/91

National Solid Wastes Management Assn.

MA, MD, & PA hazardous waste vehicle bonding requirements

State bonding requirements for vehicles transporting hazardous wastes are not preempted under the "obstacle" test.

PD-1 (R)

Closed

Public Notice: 8/12/91 (56 FR 38294).

Decision: 12/11/92 (57 FR 58848).

Action on Pet. for Reconsid.: 6/9/93 (58 FR 32418).

Judicial review dismissed in Massachusetts v. U.S. Dept. of Transp., Civil Action No. 93-1581 (HHG) (D.D.C. April 7, 1995), reversed 93 F.3d 890 (D.C. Cir. 1996), petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc denied (Nov. 6, 1996).