Sec. 9401. Requirement for uniform operating rules
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Chapter 201, as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary of Transportation may prescribe regulations or issue orders to require in small geographic areas, as defined by the Secretary, where two or more railroads serve as host railroads for joint operations that occur within a small geographic area, all such host railroads in the small geographic area shall develop unified operating rules governing all operations within the small geographic area with respect to the following: signal aspects and indications, such that no aspect represents multiple indications for any operations within the small geographic area; after-arrival mandatory directives, such that the use of an after-arrival mandatory directive is prohibited for any operations in non-signaled territory within the small geographic area; and forms used to convey track authority, such that track authority for any operations within the small geographic area is conveyed using an identical set of forms.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary to prescribe regulations or issue orders not authorized by this section. . The chapter analysis for chapter 201 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 20167 the following: 20168. Uniform operating rules. .