The world is being quietly rearranged by people who write very long documents.


The title they went with Removal of Obsolete References to “Water Carriers”; Correction Noisy translates that to

The US transportation department fixed a typo about water carriers


The US Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration corrected a minor error in its regulations. This error was in the instructions for removing old references to "water carriers" from its rules.
This document is a correction of a correction. It shows how bureaucratic processes can get tangled in small details, even when the underlying change is simple. The original rule was about cleaning up outdated language, not making a new policy.
There is nothing to watch here. This is a clerical fix.

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