CLEVELAND, March 16 — BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce will testify for improved safety standards for BLET members before the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials at a hearing scheduled for tomorrow.
Pierce, who also is President of the Teamsters Rail Conference, will inform Members of the Subcommittee, which is a part of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, about problems in the implementation of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The formal title of the hearing is “Federal Regulatory Overreach in the Railroad Industry: Implementing the Rail Safety Improvement Act.”
Among those also invited to testify are: Representative Elton Gallegly (California 24th District); Jo Strang, Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety and Chief Safety Officer for the Federal Railroad Administration; Mark Manion, Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer for Norfolk Southern; Edward Hamberger, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Association of American Railroads; Joseph J. Giulietti, Executive Director of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority; and Paul Victor, President of the Anacostia & Pacific Railroad.
A live, streaming broadcast of the hearing can be viewed online via transportation.house.gov.