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This document is archival in nature and is intended Le présent document a une valeur archivistique et for those who wish to consult archival documents fait partie des documents d’archives rendus made available from the collection of Public Safety disponibles par Sécurité publique Canada à ceux Canada. qui souhaitent consulter ces documents issus de sa collection. Some of these documents are available in only one official language. Translation, to be provided Certains de ces documents ne sont disponibles by Public Safety Canada, is available upon que dans une langue officielle. Sécurité publique request. Canada fournira une traduction sur demande. TP 2711 E 03/2013 TRANSPORT DANGEROUS GOODS NEWS LETTERSPRING 2013 | Vol. 33 No. 1 | ISSN 0828-5039 | Agreement Number 40063845 INSIDE Moving Forward with a New Emergency Response Assistance Plan Assessment Framework................................2 WE WANT TO HEAR United States – Canada Regulatory Cooperation FROM YOU! Council . .3 Scan this QR code Editorial ....................................3 with your Smartphone to fill out a quick survey Changes at CANUTEC............4 about the TDG Newsletter. Display of Labels on Propane or Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cylinders ..................................4 Development in Northern Canada and the Transportation of Dangerous Goods ...............5 You can also participate in the survey by going to http://tc.sondages-surveys.ca/s/TDG_TMD or by filling out the paper copy available inside this issue of the TDG Newsletter. A Note on the Explosives Packaging Standard ................5 Thank you! National Blitz Gets Unsafe Commercial Vehicle Drivers, Vehicles Off the Road ..............6 Using The 150 Kg Gross Mass Exemption ......................6 The Ontario Ministry of the CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TESTS Environment Invites CANUTEC and Transport Dangerous NATURAL GAS/DIESEL FUEL POWERED LOCOMOTIVES Goods to Timmins, Ontario.....7 BETWEEN EDMONTON AND FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA CANUTEC Stats .......................8 BY STÉPHANE GARNEAU oil sands regions of This reflects CN’s continuing drive to look northern Alberta. for ways to improve operating efficiency Fuelling and and advance the company’s sustainability maintenance take agenda. Natural gas has a lower carbon place in Edmonton. content compared with diesel fuel, so that locomotives using natural gas – if The retrofitted the railway technology employing this locomotives use form of energy ultimately proves viable – 90 per cent natural would produce significantly fewer carbon gas, with 10 per dioxide emissions.” cent diesel fuel for ignition. They are paired with a natural gas fuel The Transport Dangerous Goods tender, in this DID YOU KNOW? Directorate issued an Equivalency case a specially equipped and protected Certificate to Canadian National tank car, between them. This tender The Transport Dangerous Goods Newsletter Railways (CN) to allow them to use an was upgraded by Chart Industries Inc., is available online! You can find us at http:// experimental tender in a pilot project located in New Prague, Minnesota. www.tc.gc.ca/eng/tdg/newsletter-menu-268. that uses new liquefied natural gas Natural gas fuelling is provided by htm, where you can also access a printable technology to fuel locomotives. On EnCana Corporation. PDF version of not only the current issue, September 27, 2012, CN announced but past ones as well. that it was testing two mainline diesel- Keith Creel, Executive Vice-President and electric locomotives fuelled principally Chief Operating Officer of CN, said: Want to receive the Newsletter directly in by natural gas. These locomotives will run “CN launched this locomotive test to your inbox? on the 480 km line from Edmonton to explore the use of natural gas as a potential • Go to www.tc.gc.ca, Fort McMurray, the rail gateway to the alternative to conventional diesel fuel. • Click on “Subscribe to E-news” in the grey box at the very bottom right of the page, • Click on “Sign up today”, • Enter your email address, and • Select the Transport Dangerous Goods Newsletter under “Safety and Security Group”. TRANSPORT DANGEROUS GOODS 2 MOVING FORWARD WITH A NEW EMERGENCY RESPONSE ASSISTANCE PLAN ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK BY MARC GRIGNON Transport Canada’s Transport Dangerous Goods Directorate has developed a comprehensive • When and how to submit ERAP applications to Transport Canada. Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP) Assessment Framework. This framework addresses the Auditor General recommendations to strengthen our compliance monitoring When: guidance, tools and processes. • Prepare and submit an application form and other required documents; o for all new applications or In the first phase, a consultant reviewed how Transport Canada assesses and approves o when the response capability of an existing plan has changed. ERAPs, the Directorate’s administrative and functional processes, as well as ERAP program guidance material. We used several of the consultant’s recommendations in phase two. How: • Download a new application form from Transport Canada’s website. In the second phase, response operations unit members, with the assistance of remedial • Submit the ERAP with the application form. measures specialists, developed a framework that clearly defines ERAP assessment processes • Include a signed copy of any third party agreements for external emergency resources and provides guidance and tools. The unit then vetted the framework through an extensive with the application form. internal consultation process. • Send the completed application forms and documents to: The framework came into effect in January 2013. It aims to: Chief, Enforcement and Response Operations - ASDB Transport Dangerous Goods Directorate • Clarify Transport Canada’s roles and responsibilities 330 Sparks Street, 9th floor Tower C • Define clear processes for both Transport Canada and industry Ottawa, ON, K1A 0N5 • Ensure monitoring and annual review of those processes [email protected] • Help manage and coordinate national plans and contractors’ assessments • Provide guidance and tools to Transport Dangerous Goods staff for proper documentation Note: electronic submissions are preferred. and follow-up • Add risk evaluation to the process • Service standards More specifically, the framework helps Transport Canada’s remedial measures specialists to clarify: Transport Canada will: o review applications within 15 business days of receiving an application to confirm that • The ERAPs Transport Canada will consider: all required information is included and valid; o return applications to the applicant when information is missing, incomplete or Transport Canada will review ERAPs it receives from: believed to be inaccurate; o persons established in Canada who offer for transport or import dangerous goods that Note: if an applicant does not re-submit the information within a set timeline (usually require an ERAP; three weeks), we will refuse the original application and require a new one; o persons with power of attorney for a person outside Canada that offers dangerous o conduct internal quality controls to ensure national consistency. goods for transport; and o anyone that meets the definition of “offer for transport” when more than one person meets the definition, except when the dangerous goods are offered by a manufacturer • Transport Canada will take into consideration any relevant emergency response exercises or producer. We will issue these plans to the manufacturers or producers only since and reviews of responses to actual incidents involving the plan. Part 7 of the Regulations requires them to use their own plans. • Transport Canada will not use this framework to approve plans for response contractors • The scope of an ERAP: who specializes in emergency response under subsection 7.1(b) of the Transportation of o A plan that outlines the actions that would be taken to respond to an actual or Dangerous Goods Act, 1992 (orphan dangerous goods involved in terrorist activities). anticipated release that could endanger public safety (The Transportation of Dangerous Note: We are currently developing a framework to address those activities. Goods Act, 1992, defines public safety to include the safety of human life and health and of property and environment). We believe that the ERAP Assessment Framework will allow national consistency and o The plan applies while the dangerous goods are in transport or while they are being program efficiency. It will ensure that specialized personnel and equipment are available in handled for the purpose of, in the course of, or following transportation. a timely manner to assist carriers and first responders at the scene of an incident. Please direct your questions about this framework or the ERAP program to the remedial • How Transport Canada will conduct contractors’