One Year And Change After 17 Died In West, TX Blast, Not One New State, Federal Law re. Fertilizer
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There was also a gap between U.S. and Texas agencies on whether the fertilizer plant needed to comply with federal guidelines on disaster preparedness due to its stores of ammonium nitrate, safety board investigator Rachael Gunaratnam said. That disconnect "left emergency responders and residents unprepared for April 17," she said.
Despite investigations that have yielded information about safety deficiencies at the plant and voluntary safety steps taken by the nation's fertilizer industry, not a single state or federal law requiring change has been passed since April 17, 2013.
West Mayor Tommy Muska thanked the board for holding its meeting in the still-rebuilding city, but questioned whether investigators needed to focus more on the production of ammonium nitrate — a chemical that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — and ways to add additives to make it safer. "It seems to me that it would be more effective and easier to regulate if you had a mandate for a safer product," Muska said.
John Crowder, the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of West, said the firefighters who responded to the fertilizer plant deserved credit for doing the best they could. He cited Corbett's testimony about the potentially confusing guidance for when to pull away from the fire.
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http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Year-after-Texas-plant-blast-no-new-safety-laws-5419631.php