Representatives of the rail industry Tuesday complained to the US Congress about the Obama administration’s slow pace in issuing its comprehensive crude-by-rail safety rule, as the Department of Transportation missed a self-imposed January 30 target to submit the regulation to the White House for final review. Joe Delcambre, a spokesman with DOT’s Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, told Platts the agency hopes to send the rule, including an overhaul of tank car safety standards, “very soon” to the White House Office of Management and Budget, which vets all regulations before they go into effect. The DOT in January had said in a rulemaking schedule update that it planned to submit the rule to OMB by January 30, and for the rule to be finalized by May 12. “The rulemaking is very comprehensive and involves interrelated issues that must be carefully assessed to ensure […]