Excerpt from Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Reauthorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, May 8, 1997 Senator wyden. The subcommittee will come to order. Today, the subcommittee begins the process of reauthorizing the programs of Research and Special Programs Administration, the agency that oversees the transportation of hazardous materials, efforts to main tain the safety of the Nation's citizens is obviously one of the high est obligations of the us. Senate. 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.