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Neither the municipalities collectively nor the Greater Vancouver
Regional District has the jurisdiction, mandate or expertise to
take the lead: in the endeavour.

PARTICIPANTS

We believe that it is essential that the railways, shippers,
producers, ports, regulatory bodies and municipalities be involved
fully and that others be brought into the process as required.
Just as there must be a ‘lead! agency in the provincial and
federal governments, the municipalities through their ongoing
committees of Mayors, Managers, and technical staff have an
established mechanism to coordinate their ‘involvement.
Municipalities, however, expect to provide their input directly
based on issues which affect them individually.

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The shippers and producers, no doubt, will wish to coordinate

their involvement and. act either through their associations or
common interest groups. The railways and the ports will need to
be individually represented as one cannot speak for another- in
matters of such detail as routings, operations and emergency

response.

While it is essential to have: full-time participants from the
groups named, it is also important that the process be open to all
groups, agencies and individuals who deem themselves to be
affected by the existing situation or planned changes. This
involvement of the wider community must be done in an orderly,
efficient way.

“SCOPE

The planning process should have as an objective the development
and implementation of a Tong term solution to the problems
associated with the movement of dangerous goods by rail in the
area including the routings, operations and emergency response to
accidents involving such movements.

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