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For a variety of its own reasons not applicable to the Committee, the agency may implement all/most of the recommendations,
but few times recommendations are not implemented.
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RETAC’s activities have provided the Board an important forum and source of information on issues affecting the rail transportation
of energy resources. Of the eight recommendations referred to above, STB is implementing one directly (continued support of
RETAC as a mechanism for promoting industry dialogue, discussion and forecasting within the energy supply chain), and implementing
several others indirectly—(1) promoting the development of industry best practices, (2) promoting the development of supply
chain monitoring and reporting, and (3) facilitating methodologies within the energy supply chain to determine necessary levels
and locations of needed and justified reserve transportation capacity—by encouraging the work of RETAC in the areas of best
practices, performance measures, and capacity planning, respectively.
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