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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 28, 1990                   TAG: 9003280536
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

HOUSE PASSES BILL ON HAULING GARBAGE

Truckers would be banned from hauling loads of food and garbage back to back, under legislation the House passed overwhelmingly over Bush administration opposition.

The bill, approved 410-15 on Tuesday, directs the Department of Transportation to issue regulations banning refrigerated trucks, tank trucks and rail cars from alternating loads of food with shipments of "unacceptable non-food products" such as solid waste or chemicals.

The administration opposed the ban largely because of a provision that the Transportation Department assume enforcement responsibility.

-Associated Press 


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