Senate Panel Approves Chemical Facility Standards Bill; DHS, OMB Nominations.(Office of Management and Budget)

• Autor: 13
• Assuntos: Chemical industry ; Coburn, Tom ; Government regulation ; Herbicides ; Pesticides industry ; Safety and security measures ; Sulphur industry
• É parte de: Defense Daily, 2014
• Descrição: The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Programs Authorization and Accountability Act of 2014 (H.R. 4007) was approved by voice vote and requires DHS to establish performance-based standards to improve the security of chemical facilities. It also requires a third party assessment of vulnerabilities in the existing DHS-managed eight-years-old Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program to ensure the department's accountability of the program. A version of the bill has already passed the House. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the ranking member on the committee, said in a statement that the bill, which was introduced with Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the committee's chairman, will reform the CFATS program.
  
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