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Notice of safety advisory.
This safety advisory provides recommended practices for the testing, classification, and reuse of second-hand rail.\1\ The purpose of this safety advisory is to reduce the number of rail defects that occur when second-hand rail is used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------