---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 10910"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "10910"
heading: "Effect on other statutes and authorities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/10910"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part A — Rail"
  - "Chapter 109 — Licensing"
---

# §10910. Effect on other statutes and authorities


Nothing in section [10908](/usc/49/10908.md) or [10909](/usc/49/10909.md) is intended to affect the traditional police powers of the [State](/usc/49/10102.md?p=8) to require a [rail carrier](/usc/49/10102.md?p=5) to comply with [State](/usc/49/10102.md?p=8) and local environmental, public health, and public safety standards that are not unreasonably burdensome to interstate commerce and do not discriminate against [rail carriers](/usc/49/10102.md?p=5).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. A, title VI, § 605(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4905.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

For prior section 10910, see note set out under section 10907 of this title.