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(Source: Bellingham Herald, January 15, 2014)

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Railroads maintain their own response plans to handle oil spills — uncoordinated with state regulators in Washington and Oregon. And neither state charges a per-barrel fee on rail transports. In Washington, the 5-cent-per-barrel fee — which funds oil spill response and prevention — applies only to marine shipments.

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