legislative priority · 2026
Broaden the high-hazard flammable train definition
Deluzio and Representative Ro Khanna reintroduced the DERAIL Act to broaden the definition used to classify trains as high-hazard flammable trains. The supplied text does not specify how the definition would change.
Context: The source does not provide the proposed revised definition or explain which trains would be newly covered.
In their own words
to broaden the definition by which trains are classified as a “high-hazard flammable train” (HHFT).
The source
Christopher R. Deluzio: Derailment Resources and Updates
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Retrieved: 11/11/2026