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(Comments on Bo. 11570 k Bill to Provide Cargo Security for
Property Transported in !Tterstate and. Foreign Comerce]..
5-169347. March 29v 191?'. '419p.
Report to Rep. John 3. rAtphy Chm=a, Souse Comamittee on
merchant marine and Fis.ries? -by Dnob rt F. Keller* Deputy
Comptcoller general.
Issue Ax*&: Transportation Systems a24 PolVcies: anageent
Practices in Transportation lrwcAms (2605).
Contact: Office of the General Comarejj tzansportation Law.
Budget Function:. Comserce and Trmqpotatrn: other Advanceeat
and legulat lon of Commerce (603). /
Organization concerned: Office ot managesat and Budget;
Interstate Commerce Commission; Department of the Treasury;
Department of Transportation.
Congressional Relevance: louse Committee on Marchant 8a-tne and
Fisheries.
Authority: Interstate Commerce Act, sec. 204, 220 (69 U.S.C. 306
; 69 U.S.C. 320); 9 C.P.l. 1209; 40 Ped. 1eg. 51665.
Federal Aviation Act (69 B.S.C. 13261; 4#9 O.S.C. 1372: 69
U.S.C. 1377); 1-, C.P.R. 239. Federal Reports kct (P.L.
93-153; 66 U.S.C. 3501 (Supp. 9). 1.t. 10473 (96th Cong.).
B.3. T17; (95th Cong.).
3,3. 1157, a bill to provide for improved cargo
security for property transpored- In interstate and foreign,
commerce, ould impose a degree of unreasonable and unnecesrary
regulation and reporting on cadrs * Findings/Conclusions:
Existing statutory provisions - power, regulatory aqencies to
requix a from carriers whatever loU and damage reports would be
considered neeessary by the bill. the regulatory agencies would
have no apparent use for the information they would collect
under certain sections of the bill. The agencies that would use
such information ought to collect it in. order to accomplish the
purpose intended by the bill. Ike doUble tier reporting
requirements by two different agencies as .suggested in the
proposed bill would peuit possible dap$ .ation and conflicts in
standards of control. The responsibility for program evaluation
should rest initially upon the responsible agencies, since such
evaluation is a fundamental part of effective program
administration. Recomendations: Since the Oftice of management
and Budget (053) would review initial Department of
Transportation plans requiring loss and damage reports to be
made to the regulatory agenciese OM ought to review all plans
for the collection of loss and damage information. Congress
should attempt to specify the kinds of information and tests
needed to enable it to better asess how such programs are
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