Are truck terminals and railroad facilities subject to the CFATS regulation?
For more information on this topic, please reference the Appendix to Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards; Final Rule http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/chemsec_appendixafinalrule.pdf (PDF, 41 pages – 4.25 MB). Referenced Text: The Department is taking the same approach toward truck terminals that it has taken toward railroad facilities. See 72 FR 17698-17699. DHS presently does not plan to screen truck terminals for inclusion in the Section 550 regulatory program, and therefore DHS will not request that owners and operators of truck terminals complete the Top-Screen risk assessment methodology. DHS and its components, including TSA, have concurrent and overlapping jurisdiction with respect to certain aspects of chemical security. DHS is working, and will continue to work, to address this overlapping jurisdiction and to determine whether it would want to include trucking terminals in its chemical security program. As with railroad facilities, DHS may, in the future re-evaluate th
