Industry Hopes To Attach CFATS Reauthorization To ‘Anything That Moves’

Industry groups are scrambling to find a legislative vehicle to which they can attach legislation reauthorizing the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) expired chemical safety program because a stand-alone bill extending the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program remains blocked in the Senate. We will accept attaching the CFATS measure to “anything that moves,” Eric Byer, president and CEO of the Alliance for Chemical Distribution (ACD), formerly the National Association of Chemical Distributors, said in a recent interview with Inside...