The following proposed amendments to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations were presented by J.S. Bergeron, Regional Manager, TC at the Canadian Association of Chemical Distributors (CACD) semi-annual meeting recently:

1. Part 7 Emergency Response Assistance Plan: now with Justice, expect to see in Gazette I before year end,
2. Titled "Back to the Future": returning to pre-Amendment 6 for Section 4.15 Dangerous Goods Safety Marks on a Large Means of Containment: Placards and UN Numbers: correcting safety mark errors, etc. Consultation will be the end of November, early December,
3. Clean up of the standards; discussion centred on CGSB-43.147 Construction, Modification, Qualification, Maintenance, and Selection and Use of Means of Containment for the Handling, Offering for Transport, or Transporting of Dangerous Goods by Rail, & CGSB-43.126 Remanufacturing and Reconditioning of Drums Used for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods; adoption of rail standards; end of year?
4. Adopt the 15th Edition of the UN Model Regulations; harmonization of TIH’s (toxic inhalation hazards); early next year
5. Changes to Part 12 Air re: domestic provisions and isolated areas; there is an internal discussion at Transport Canada going on now.

Keep informed by checking our website, the Canada Gazette website: http://canadagazette.gc.ca/index-e.html, or Transport Canada’s website: www.tc.gc.ca/tdg/menu.htm.