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[CITE: 49USC5707]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
              SUBTITLE III--GENERAL AND INTERMODAL PROGRAMS
 
                CHAPTER 57--SANITARY FOOD TRANSPORTATION
 
Sec. 5707. Waiver authority

    (a) General Authority.--After consultation required by section 5709 
of this title, the Secretary of Transportation may waive any part of 
this chapter or regulations prescribed under this chapter for a class of 
persons, motor vehicles, rail vehicles, cosmetics, devices, drugs, food, 
food additives, or nonfood products, if the Secretary decides that the 
waiver--
        (1) would not result in the transportation of cosmetics, 
    devices, drugs, food, or food additives that would be unsafe to 
    humans or animals; and
        (2) would not be contrary to the public interest and this 
    chapter.

    (b) Publication of Waivers.--The Secretary shall publish in the 
Federal Register any waiver and the reasons for the waiver.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 857.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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5707..................................  49 App.:2807.                    Nov. 3
, 1990, Pub. L. 101-500, Sec.  8,
                                                                          104 S
tat. 1216.
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    In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words ``any part of'' are 
substituted for ``in whole or in part'' for consistency in the revised 
title. The words ``application of any provision of'' are omitted as 
surplus. The word ``refuse'' is omitted as unnecessary because of the 
definition of ``nonfood product'' in section 5702 of the revised title. 
The word ``decides'' is substituted for ``determines'' for consistency 
in the revised title. In clause (2), the word ``otherwise'' is omitted 
as surplus.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5709 of this title.
