COUNTYWIDE : State Hearing on Train Derailments to Be Held in L.A.
The state Assembly Transportation Committee will hold a hearing Thursday in Los Angeles on the causes of two recent train derailments in Ventura and Shasta counties.
The hearing will take place between 9 a.m. to noon in the auditorium of the State Building, 107 S. Broadway.
Public testimony will be accepted.
The 15-member committee will examine whether regulation should be increased on the transportation of hazardous materials by rail.
The committee will hear testimony from federal, state and local officials and from Southern Pacific Railroad.
In Ventura County, 49 homes in the Seacliff area were evacuated after a Southern Pacific freight train derailed July 28, spilling toxic hydrazine and causing the Ventura Freeway to shut down for five days.
In an incident July 14, a Southern Pacific train derailed and spilled weedkiller into the Sacramento River in Shasta County.
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