CSX Transportation S. Michael Austin Manager Hazardous Materials

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CSX Transportation S. Michael
AustinManager Hazardous Materials
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CSX in America

• CSX operates in
• 23 states, 2 Canadian Provinces, and DC
• 700 counties
• 13,000 jurisdictions
• Infrastructure includes
• 21,000 route miles
• 37,000 physical track miles
• Bridges, Tunnels, Classification Facilities,
• Dispatch Centers, Office Buildings.
• Transportation Service Provided
• Coal
• Automotive
• Grain/Agriculture
• Food/ Consumer Goods
• Metals
• Chemicals

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CSXT Hazardous Material Managers
Ontario
Quebec
Mike Bethge
MA
NY
Bill Caton
MI
Tim Mannas
CT
PA
NJ
OH
DE
IN
IL
Mike Austin
MD
WV
VA
KY
Jim Briski
NC
TN
SC
Harry Hopes
GA
AL
MS
Bill Gleason
LA
Mike Lunsford
FL
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CSXT Hazardous Materials Team

• Respond to and abate hazardous material
  emergencies
• Emergency pre-planning and EMA liaison
• Training for public agency emergency responders
• Training for CSX employees and customers
• New business review and hazard evaluation
• Regulatory type inspections and compliance
  reviews

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Incident Management Preplanning

• Internal Crisis Management Exercises
• External Crisis Management Exercises
• Emergency Responder Training
• CSX HAZMAT Sentinel Program
• Preferred Response Contractor Program
• RATS Environmental Assessment Teams
• TestNET Air monitoring Program

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Incident Management Preplanning

• Transportation Emergency Response Plans for
  terminals and line-of-road
• Community Awareness Emergency Planning Guides
• Annual planning/training meetings with all
  support groups
• Incident recovery planning and training
• Staged equipment and materials

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Advanced Response Programs

• TestNET Air Monitoring
• For public and employee safety
• 20 locations
• Identical kits and annual training
• Equipment based on top 25 rail hazmat shipments
• Rail Accident Technical Support (RATS) teams
• Four primary support consultants
• Advanced training in rail response
• Available to respond with water and soil testing
  equipment
• Can deploy for short or long term events

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Contractor Consultant Reviews

• Independent Consultant
• Auditing
• Financial
• Operation
• Safety
• Training
• Process Improvement
• Pre-selection Reviews
• Approximately 15 reviews per year
• Adjustments and recoveries are approximately 45
  of consultant costs

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Hazardous Material Safety

• 99.996 percent of rail hazmat shipments reached
  their final destination without a release caused
  by an accident.
• Overall hazmat accident rates have fallen 87
  percent since 1980 and 34 percent since 1990.
• In 2008, CSXT transported approximately 350,000
  carloads of hazardous materials, of which only 5
  spilled any contents due to derailments. 112
  Non-Accident Releases
• Railroads are Common Carriers

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Top Ten Hazardous Materials Transported by Rail

• Alcohols, N.O.S (Ethanol) Class 3
• Molten Sulfur Class 9
• Sodium Hydroxide Class 8
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas Class 2.1
• Sulfuric Acid Class 8
• Anhydrous Ammonia Class 2.2
• Chlorine Class 2.3
• Asphalt Class 9
• Phenol Solution Class 6.1
• Phosphoric Acid Class 8

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CSX Transportation Security Technology - Network
Operation Workstation (NOW) -
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Network Operating Workstation
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By clicking on the desired train number, detailed
information about that train is displayed.
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This display is of the standing order of the
train. The boxes in maroon are hazardous
materials cars.
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By pointing and clicking on an individual car
box, information on the contents of the car is
displayed.
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Example of emailed standing order report from
Public Safety file.
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Training for Emergency Responders
Award winning video workbook based
self-training program http//csxhazmat.kor-tx.com
Over 60,000 books and videos distributed
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Planning Guide for Communities Emergency
Responders

• Over 13,000 distributed
• Fire
• Police
• Emergency Management
• Homeland Security
• Fourth Edition distributed in Fall 2006
• http//.csxhazmat.kor-tx.com

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Challenges Present and Future

• Urban Hazmat Re-routing Initiatives
• New Tank Car Designs
• Security Initiatives
• Enhancing Responder Training
• Ethanol Production Surge

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CSX PSCC 800-232-0144
Its your community. Take the time to program our
CSXTs PSCC contact number into your cell phone.
It is our obligation to our company and to your
community to report unusual occurrences. You
never know what you might see on the way home.
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Contact Information

• S.Michael Austin
• Manager Hazardous Materials
• 410-368-4733 (office)
• Mike_Austin_at_CSX.com