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"NS is committed to enhancing safety, which includes not only sound troin operations, but also preparing for emergency situations," said David Julian, NS vice president safety and environmental. "Pre-planning ond training for first responders is essentiol to help them perform their duties when the need arises. With respect to the crude oil troffic segment, we look forward to working with emergency response agencies to ossist them with hazardous materials plonning, training, ond resources to help them prepare for and to minimize impocts in the unlikely event of on incident."

NS manager hazardous materials, David Schoendorfer said, "As part of our continuous TRANSCAER® community outreach and emergency preparedness initiatives, NS plans to offer the three-day training dass to 80 additional emergency responders across its raił network in 2015." ■

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Nebraska Plans State Wide Exercise Along Crude Oil Route

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conjunction with the BNSF Railwoy have begun the planning stages for a Statewide exercise that will involve multiple levels of government, prńrate sector ond first responders. NEMA'$ Exercise Training Officer, Brandon Burton lead the first planning meeting where objectives were discussed, seminors were planned and current planning standardswere updated. Three seminors hove been planned along the affected route that will help identify gaps in plans, resources

and training. A finał discussion based tabletop will involve newly elected officials,

teams have been trained and equipped. We see this os an opportunity to test those plans ond identify gaps that need to be addressed prior to a real event." ■

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