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BNSF Railway Safety

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BNSF Fast Facts

Employees = 36,500 Route Miles = 32,500 States = 28 Canadian Provinces = 2 Daily Trains = 800 Corp. Offices = Fort Worth, TX

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Safety Results:BNSF Hazardous Materials Transport

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Non-Accident Accident

Hazardous material shipments have increased on BNSF, while the number of releases has decreased.

Examples of Types of Releases

Non-Accident Release Accident Release

Number of Shipments Total Releases

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BNSF Hazardous Materials Transport

384240426219

394805

1543117012

16657 1501615690

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17396

14265

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Hazmat Shipments PIH/TIH

Loaded Hazmat Cars

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Hazardous Materials

5% of total U.S. freight rail carloads 5% of tonnage 6% of ton-miles 68% of rail hazmat travels in tank cars 28% on intermodal flat cars, and the remainder in

covered hoppers, gondolas, and other car types The most potentially hazardous materials, termed toxic

inhalation hazards (TIH) are nearly all transported in tank cars. TIH materials constitutes only about 0.3 % of all rail carloads.

For US Railroads Hazardous Materials Account for:

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As common carriers, railroads are required under federal law to move hazardous materials

Hazardous Materials Transport

Hazardous Materials Fatalities in Rail Incidents (1989-2006)

Virtually all are shipped without an accident release (99.998%)

Hazmat accident rates have declined by 90% since 1980 and nearly 50% since 1990

Moving hazardous materials by rail is 16 times safer than moving them on the roads

Railroads incurred 16 fatalities in since 1989 while trucks average nearly 11 annually. BNSF had none.

Serious Incidents

Rail and Truck (1989-2006)

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Civil EmergencyResponse Agencies

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Service InterruptionDesk (SID)

Resource OperationsCenter (ROC)

NOC personnel:GST / AGST, Corridor

Supt, Signal, Mechanical,Maint. Of Way

Dispatchers:Trick, Chief

Svc Region/Division:AVP if merited.

Supt, Asst Supt, Supt Opns,RFE, Tmstr, Roadmaster

Foreign Line Railroad(when involved)

Federal and State Agencies:FRA, NTSB, EPA, DOT,

Commerce Commission, etc.

Shipper, CHEMTREC,Canutec, etc

Shipper Protocol - See H

BNSF HazmatBNSF Environmental:

(when lading/fuel spilled)

BNSF Responsible Care:(IF spill involved)

Alpha Page: Lynn Baldwin

BNSF CorporateRelations

Resource ProtectionSpecial Agent

Damage Prevention(IF loads involved)

General Claims

Freight Claims(IF loads involved)

AAR, Monica Cicioni(IF Military Shipmentinvolved) NO VMX

First Call

Incident Notification

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BNSF Emergency Response Team

Currently 205 responders at 56 BNSF locations

126 Mechanical 29 Environmental / Hazmat 22 Load and Ride Solutions 9 Operating 3 Safety 1 Engineering 1 Intermodal

All but one are exempt employees Provide direct response until

BNSF Environmental / Hazmat and hazmat contractors arrive

BNSF hazardous material responders protect the safety of our employees, our communities and BNSF’s velocity.

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BNSF HAZMAT Responder Locations

Klamath Falls

WhitefishSeattle

Stockton

BakersfieldMojave

San Bernardino

Los AngelesNeedles

BelenTexico

Amarillo

Texline

La Junta

Denver

Alliance

Gillette

Bridger Jct

Billings

Minot

Mandan

HettingerMinneapolis/St. Paul

La Crosse

Sioux City

Lincoln

Ravenna

McCook

Salt Lake City

Fargo Superior

Superior

Kansas City

Galesburg

Chicago

MachensSt. Louis

Springfield

Memphis

Birmingham

NorrisTulsa

OklahomaCity

Haslet

Ft. WorthSweetwater

Temple

Teague

Houston

Spring New Orleans

Phoenix

El Paso

January 2009

Portland

Vancouver

ArkansasCityAvard

202 Responders at59 Locations

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Training and Response: BNSF Emergency Response Team

Initial training

80 Hour Hazmat Technician

Emergency Response Training Center – Pueblo, CO

Annual refresher (32-40 hrs.)

Tank car

Advanced tank car

Incident command

Air monitoring

Advanced technology

BNSF Hazmat Task Force

BNSF hazardous material responders go through intensive initial and refresher training

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Contracted Response - ExpectationsContracted Response - Expectations

• Experience• Locations• Limitations• Ability• Duties• Equipment•Regulatory Compliance

•Training•Respiratory•Med. Surveillance

• Contract Compliance•Audit•Drills•Experience

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ICS and NIMS

BNSF hazardous material responders, operations supervisors and traincrews will work within the Unified Incident Command

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Hazard Communications

Emergency Responders can obtain hazardous materials information during emergencies.

Traincrew’s

Trainlist

Contacting the Network

Operations Center

800-832-5452

Tank car’s Placard,

Marking and Stencils

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Training and Response: Community

Information: Hazmat traffic flows for communities Last 12 mo. shipments Written request required Kootenai County 65,738 Loaded Hazmat Shipments

30,981 – Intermodal Hazmat Freight of All Kinds 12154 – Denatured Alcohol 4,642 – Asphalt 4098 – Liquefied Petroleum Gas 2,174 – Diesel Fuel

Top 5 = 82% of the total Others

632 Chlorine 653 Anhydrous Ammonia

Community focus is on training of responders and providing required information for emergency preplanning.

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Training and Response - Community

Training topics include: Train list / shipping papers Placards Equipment Incident Assessment Hands-on equipment in field –

Instructor lead Hazmat shipment information:

Hazmat traffic flows for communities

Shipments for past year Written request required

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Number of Responders Trained

Community focus is on training responders and providing interpretative information. Training is available via instructor lead or computer based training.

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Roles

Fire Department Incident Command Assessment Air Monitoring Evacuation/Shelter in place Fire Protection

Railroad Incident Command Assessment Air Monitoring/modeling Mitigation

Plug and Patch Transfer

Environmental Remediation

Fire Department is focused on the protection of the public and the railroad is focused on the safe and efficient mitigation of the incident