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Based on 49 CFR 180.513, here is what is required for tank car repairs, alterations, conversions, and modifications:
* Facility Compliance: Any facility working on tank cars must follow the applicable requirements of the subpart, the AAR Specifications for Tank Cars, and the equipment owner's requirements.
* Owner's Permission and Instructions: The facility must get the owner's permission before performing any work that affects the alteration, conversion, repair, or qualification of the owner's equipment. For qualification and maintenance, the facility must use the owner's written instructions (or have written confirmation from the owner to use instructions furnished by someone else).
* Confidentiality: The facility cannot use, copy, distribute, forward, or provide the owner's confidential and proprietary written instructions, procedures, manuals, and records to anyone else without the owner's permission.
* Reporting: The facility must report all work performed to the owner. They must also report any observed damage, deterioration, failed components, or non-compliant parts to the owner.
* Quality Assurance: The facility must incorporate the owner's Quality Assurance Program into its own Quality Assurance Program.
* Protective Coatings: If a repair requires completely removing the tank car jacket, and neither the exterior shell nor the interior jacket has a protective coating, a protective coating must be applied to prevent deterioration (unless previously applied coatings still provide effective protection).
* Testing: After any repair, replacement, or qualification of tank car service equipment, that equipment must successfully pass the leak test prescribed in 49 CFR 180.509(j).