Transport committee  Under the SMS regulations, they are required to notify Transport Canada of any changes in their operations. If they're planning to make new use of their equipment, they would be required to report this in advance.

Transport committee  You mean the notification that we would have received?

Transport committee  We will take a look at that and follow up.

Transport committee  Transport Canada does not provide authorization for how they're going to use the equipment. When we become aware that they are using it in a manner different from what they had been doing, the requirement is for them to submit to us a risk assessment of the change in operations.

Transport committee  As part of the review, there were meetings in discussion with the companies either to clarify aspects of the risk assessment or to request additional information.

Transport committee  I think we have initiated work on all of the recommendations. The one that has not led to either rule regulations or amendments to the act would be the locomotive and video and voice recorders. When we talk about rail safety, that's one area where we are doing a study right now w

Transport committee  The key route and key train rules require them to consult and to take into account the concerns expressed by municipalities in their risk assessment. There is a requirement for railway companies to respond to municipalities on how those concerns are being mitigated.

Transport committee  That's the expectation. That's what the rule has—

Transport committee  Certainly, Transport Canada will be seeing whether the process that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the railways have agreed to is working and things are happening. Yes, we will be doing that.

Transport committee  In terms of research, it is ongoing. We all participate in research with our U.S. counterparts on rail integrity, rail wear, and what standards need to be established in this area. We also continue to take a look at what we can learn from accidents that have occurred, since Lac-M

Transport committee  I can answer that question. We look at the requirement for risk assessment in terms of company rather than type. There are definitions under “key route” and “key train”, in terms of where the corridor or the route risk assessment must be conducted. When the emergency directive

Transport committee  The definition of a key route is any track that carries 10,000 or more loaded tank cars of dangerous goods. The department is currently working with the National Research Council to look at that definition and see whether that threshold remains the correct threshold or not.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  The requirement of the rule applies to companies that carry a certain volume of dangerous goods. There were nine companies that indicated that they were carrying a certain volume of dangerous goods. Of those nine, some had a volume at a level that required them to submit risk ass

Transport committee  Yes.