PHMSA Amends Hazardous Materials Regulations
The Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is amending its Hazardous Materials Regulations, said a Federal Register notice to be published March 11. The amendments were first proposed in April 2012, the notice said, and were necessary to update and clarify regulatory requirements. A list of the changes adopted by PHMSA in its final rule is as follows:
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- Permit designated agents for non-residents to submit designation requests by electronic mail
- Add the Sulphur Institute’s “Molten Sulphur Rail Tank Car Guidance” document to the list of informational materials not requiring incorporation by reference in 171.7
- Revise the 172.101 HMT to correct an error in the transportation requirements for entries listed under the proper shipping name, “Hydrazine Dicarbonic Acid Diazide”
- Revise the 172.101 HMT to remove the entry for “Zinc ethyl, see Diethylzinc” that was superseded by proper shipping names adopted in a previous rulemaking
- Add entries for “Paint related material, flammable, corrosive (including paint thinning or reducing compound)” UN3469, PG II, and PG III to the 172.101 HMT that were inadvertently omitted
- Remove references to special provisions B72 and B74 in 172.102
- Revise special provision 138 in 172.102 to clarify the lead solubility calculation used to classify a material as a Marine Pollutant
- Revise the shipping paper requirements in172.203(e) to permit the phrase “Residue last contained” to be placed before or after the basic shipping description sequence, or for rail shipments, directly preceding the proper shipping name in the basic shipping description sequence
- Update the training recordkeeping requirements in172.704 to specify that a hazmat employer must make hazmat employee training records available upon request, at a reasonable time and location, to an authorized Transportation Department official or to an entity explicitly granted authority to enforce the HMR
- Clarify that the material of trade exception in 173.6 may be used when transporting Division 2.1 and 2.2 gases in Dewar flasks
- Clarify the lab pack provisions in 173.12 pertaining to temperature-controlled materials contained in a lab pack
- Clarify the exceptions for external emergency self-closing valves on CTMVs in 173.33(g) to specify that external emergency self-closing valves on MC 338 cargo tanks containing cryogenic liquids may remain open during transportation
- Correct an inadvertent deletion of the 173.62 packaging requirements for explosives
- Incorporate special permit DOT SP-13556 into 173.134, to authorize the transportation by motor vehicle of certain regulated medical wastes, designated as sharps, in non-DOT specification containers fitted into wheeled racks
- Revise the requirements for cargo air transport of alcoholic beverages 173.150 to harmonize with the ICAO TI
- Clarify the exceptions in173.159a for non-spillable batteries secured to skids or pallets
- Correct regulatory citations in 178.2(c)
- Clarify the requirements for the Flame Penetration Resistance test specified for chemical oxygen generators and certain compressed gases in Appendix E to Part 178
- Clarify the inspection record requirements in 180.416 for discharge systems of cargo tanks transporting liquefied compressed gases