Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admin., DOT § 172.101 Subpart H—Training this part, that person shall perform the function in accordance with this part. 172.700 Purpose and scope. 172.701 Federal-State relationship. [Amdt. 172–29, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15, 1976, as 172.702 Applicability and responsibility for amended by Amdt. 172–32, 41 FR 38179, Sept. training and testing. 9, 1976] 172.704 Training requirements. Subpart B—Table of Hazardous Subpart I—Safety and Security Plans Materials and Special Provisions 172.800 Purpose and applicability. § 172.101 Purpose and use of haz- 172.802 Components of a security plan. ardous materials table. 172.804 Relationship to other Federal re- (a) The Hazardous Materials Table quirements. (Table) in this section designates the 172.820 Additional planning requirements for transportation by rail. materials listed therein as hazardous 172.822 Limitation on actions by states, materials for the purpose of transpor- local governments, and Indian tribes. tation of those materials. For each listed material, the Table identifies the APPENDIX A TO PART 172—OFFICE OF HAZ- hazard class or specifies that the mate- ARDOUS MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION rial is forbidden in transportation, and COLOR TOLERANCE CHARTS AND TABLES gives the proper shipping name or di- APPENDIX B TO PART 172—TREFOIL SYMBOL rects the user to the preferred proper APPENDIX C TO PART 172—DIMENSIONAL SPEC- IFICATIONS FOR RECOMMENDED PLACARD shipping name. In addition, the Table HOLDER specifies or references requirements in APPENDIX D TO PART 172—RAIL RISK ANAL- this subchapter pertaining to labeling, YSIS FACTORS packaging, quantity limits aboard air- craft and stowage of hazardous mate- AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 5101–5128, 44701; 49 rials aboard vessels. CFR 1.53. (b) Column 1: Symbols. Column 1 of the SOURCE: Amdt. 172–29, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15, Table contains six symbols (‘‘+’’, ‘‘A’’, 1976, unless otherwise noted. ‘‘D’’, ‘‘G’’, ‘‘I’’ and ‘‘W’’) as follows: (1) The plus (+) sign fixes the proper Subpart A—General shipping name, hazard class and pack- ing group for that entry without regard § 172.1 Purpose and scope. to whether the material meets the defi- nition of that class, packing group or This part lists and classifies those any other hazard class definition. When materials which the Department has the plus sign is assigned to a proper designated as hazardous materials for shipping name in Column (1) of the purposes of transportation and pre- § 172.101 Table, it means that the mate- scribes the requirements for shipping rial is known to pose a risk to humans. papers, package marking, labeling, and When a plus sign is assigned to mix- transport vehicle placarding applicable tures or solutions containing a mate- to the shipment and transportation of rial where the hazard to humans is sig- those hazardous materials. nificantly different from that of the [Amdt. 172–29, 41 FR 15997, Apr. 15, 1976, as pure material or where no hazard to amended by 66 FR 45379, Aug. 28, 2001] humans is posed, the material may be described using an alternative shipping § 172.3 Applicability. name that represents the hazards posed by the material. An appropriate alter- (a) This part applies to— nate proper shipping name and hazard (1) Each person who offers a haz- class may be authorized by the Asso- ardous material for transportation, and ciate Administrator. (2) Each carrier by air, highway, rail, (2) The letter ‘‘A’’ denotes a material or water who transports a hazardous that is subject to the requirements of material. this subchapter only when offered or (b) When a person, other than one of intended for transportation by aircraft, those provided for in paragraph (a) of unless the material is a hazardous sub- this section, performs a packaging la- stance or a hazardous waste. A ship- beling or marking function required by ping description entry preceded by an 123 VerDate Aug<31>2005 07:50 Nov 14, 2008 Jkt 214210 PO 00000 Frm 00133 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:\SGML\214210.XXX 214210 erowe on PROD1PC63 with CFR § 172.101 49 CFR Ch. I (10–1–08 Edition) ‘‘A’’ may be used to describe a material be used in place of the word ‘‘flam- for other modes of transportation pro- mable’’. vided all applicable requirements for (2) Punctuation marks and words in the entry are met. italics are not part of the proper ship- (3) The letter ‘‘D’’ identifies proper ping name, but may be used in addition shipping names which are appropriate to the proper shipping name. The word for describing materials for domestic ‘‘or’’ in italics indicates that terms in transportation but may be inappro- the sequence may be used as the proper priate for international transportation shipping name, as appropriate. under the provisions of international (3) The word ‘‘poison’’ or ‘‘poisonous’’ regulations (e.g., IMO, ICAO). An alter- may be used interchangeably with the nate proper shipping name may be se- word ‘‘toxic’’ when only domestic lected when either domestic or inter- transportation is involved. The abbre- national transportation is involved. viation ‘‘n.o.i.’’ or ‘‘n.o.i.b.n.’’ may be (4) The letter ‘‘G’’ identifies proper used interchangeably with ‘‘n.o.s.’’. shipping names for which one or more (4) Except for hazardous wastes, when technical names of the hazardous ma- qualifying words are used as part of the terial must be entered in parentheses, proper shipping name, their sequence in association with the basic descrip- in the package markings and shipping tion. (See § 172.203(k).) paper description is optional. However, (5) The letter ‘‘I’’ identifies proper the entry in the Table reflects the pre- shipping names which are appropriate ferred sequence. for describing materials in inter- (5) When one entry references an- national transportation. An alternate other entry by use of the word ‘‘see’’, if proper shipping name may be selected both names are in Roman type, either when only domestic transportation is name may be used as the proper ship- involved. ping name (e.g., Ethyl alcohol, see Eth- (6) The letter ‘‘W’’ denotes a material anol). that is subject to the requirements of (6) When a proper shipping name in- this subchapter only when offered or cludes a concentration range as part of intended for transportation by vessel, the shipping description, the actual unless the material is a hazardous sub- concentration, if it is within the range stance or a hazardous waste. A ship- stated, may be used in place of the con- ping description entry preceded by a centration range. For example, an ‘‘W’’ may be used to describe a mate- aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide rial for other modes of transportation containing 30 percent peroxide may be provided all applicable requirements described as ‘‘Hydrogen peroxide, aque- for the entry are met. ous solution with not less than 20 percent (c) Column 2: Hazardous materials de- but not more than 40 percent hydrogen scriptions and proper shipping names. peroxide’’ or ‘‘Hydrogen peroxide, aque- Column 2 lists the hazardous materials ous solution with 30 percent hydrogen descriptions and proper shipping names peroxide’’. of materials designated as hazardous (7) Use of the prefix ‘‘mono’’ is op- materials. Modification of a proper tional in any shipping name, when ap- shipping name may otherwise be re- propriate. Thus, Iodine monochloride quired or authorized by this section. may be used interchangeably with Io- Proper shipping names are limited to dine chloride. In ‘‘Glycerol alpha- those shown in Roman type (not monochlorohydrin’’ the term ‘‘mono’’ italics). is considered a prefix to the term (1) Proper shipping names may be ‘‘chlorohydrin’’ and may be deleted. used in the singular or plural and in ei- (8) Use of the word ‘‘liquid’’ or ther capital or lower case letters. ‘‘solid’’. The word ‘‘liquid’’ or ‘‘solid’’ Words may be alternatively spelled in may be added to a proper shipping the same manner as they appear in the name when a hazardous material spe- ICAO Technical Instructions or the cifically listed by name may, due to IMDG Code. For example ‘‘aluminum’’ differing physical states, be a liquid or may be spelled ‘‘aluminium’’ and ‘‘sul- solid. When the packaging specified in fur’’ may be spelled ‘‘sulphur’’. How- Column 8 is inappropriate for the phys- ever, the word ‘‘inflammable’’ may not ical state of the material, the table 124 VerDate Aug<31>2005 07:50 Nov 14, 2008 Jkt 214210 PO 00000 Frm 00134 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:\SGML\214210.XXX 214210 erowe on PROD1PC63 with CFR Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admin., DOT § 172.101 provided in paragraph (i)(4) of this sec- comprised of two or more hazardous tion should be used to determine the materials in the same hazard class, appropriate packaging section. shall be described using an appropriate (9) Hazardous wastes. If the word shipping description (e.g., ‘‘Flammable ‘‘waste’’ is not included in the haz- liquid, n.o.s.’’). The name that most ap- ardous material description in Column propriately describes the material 2 of the Table, the proper shipping shall be used; e.g., an alcohol not listed name for a hazardous waste (as defined by its technical name in the Table in § 171.8 of this subchapter), shall in- shall be described as ‘‘Alcohol, n.o.s.’’ clude the word ‘‘Waste’’ preceding the rather than ‘‘Flammable liquid, n.o.s.’’. proper shipping name of the material. Some mixtures may be more appro- For example: Waste acetone. priately described according to their (10) Mixtures and solutions. (i) A mix- application, such as ‘‘Coating solution’’ ture or solution not identified specifi- or ‘‘Extracts, flavoring liquid’’ rather cally by name, comprised of a haz- than by an n.o.s.