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§ 172.1 49 CFR Ch. I (10–1–15 Edition) 172.510 Special placarding provisions: Rail. APPENDIX B TO PART 172—TREFOIL SYMBOL 172.512 Freight containers and aircraft unit APPENDIX C TO PART 172—DIMENSIONAL SPEC- load devices. IFICATIONS FOR RECOMMENDED PLACARD 172.514 Bulk packagings. HOLDER 172.516 Visibility and display of placards. APPENDIX D TO PART 172—RAIL RISK ANAL- 172.519 General specifications for placards. YSIS FACTORS 172.521 DANGEROUS placard. AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 5101–5128, 44701; 49 172.522 EXPLOSIVES 1.1, EXPLOSIVES 1.2 CFR 1.81, 1.96 and 1.97. and EXPLOSIVES 1.3 placards. 172.523 EXPLOSIVES 1.4 placard. SOURCE: Amdt. 172–29, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15, 172.524 EXPLOSIVES 1.5 placard. 1976, unless otherwise noted. 172.525 EXPLOSIVES 1.6 placard. 172.526 [Reserved] 172.527 Background requirements for cer- Subpart A—General tain placards. 172.528 NON-FLAMMABLE GAS placard. § 172.1 Purpose and scope. 172.530 OXYGEN placard. This part lists and classifies those 172.532 FLAMMABLE GAS placard. materials which the Department has 172.536 [Reserved] designated as hazardous materials for 172.540 POISON GAS placard. purposes of transportation and pre- 172.542 FLAMMABLE placard. 172.544 COMBUSTIBLE placard. scribes the requirements for shipping 172.546 FLAMMABLE SOLID placard. papers, package marking, labeling, and 172.547 SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTIBLE transport vehicle placarding applicable placard. to the shipment and transportation of 172.548 DANGEROUS WHEN WET placard. those hazardous materials. 172.550 OXIDIZER placard. 172.552 ORGANIC PEROXIDE placard. [Amdt. 172–29, 41 FR 15997, Apr. 15, 1976, as 172.553 [Reserved] amended by 66 FR 45379, Aug. 28, 2001] 172.554 POISON placard. 172.555 POISON INHALATION HAZARD § 172.3 Applicability. placard. (a) This part applies to— 172.556 RADIOACTIVE placard. (1) Each person who offers a haz- 172.558 CORROSIVE placard. ardous material for transportation, and 172.560 CLASS 9 placard. (2) Each carrier by air, highway, rail, Subpart G—Emergency Response or water who transports a hazardous Information material. (b) When a person, other than one of 172.600 Applicability and general require- those provided for in paragraph (a) of ments. this section, performs a packaging la- 172.602 Emergency response information. beling or marking function required by 172.604 Emergency response telephone num- ber. this part, that person shall perform the 172.606 Carrier information contact. function in accordance with this part. [Amdt. 172–29, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15, 1976, as Subpart H—Training amended by Amdt. 172–32, 41 FR 38179, Sept. 172.700 Purpose and scope. 9, 1976] 172.701 Federal-State relationship. 172.702 Applicability and responsibility for Subpart B—Table of Hazardous training and testing. Materials and Special Provisions 172.704 Training requirements. § 172.101 Purpose and use of haz- Subpart I—Safety and Security Plans ardous materials table. 172.800 Purpose and applicability. (a) The Hazardous Materials Table 172.802 Components of a security plan. (Table) in this section designates the 172.804 Relationship to other Federal re- materials listed therein as hazardous quirements. materials for the purpose of transpor- 172.820 Additional planning requirements for transportation by rail. tation of those materials. For each 172.822 Limitation on actions by states, listed material, the Table identifies the local governments, and Indian tribes. hazard class or specifies that the mate- APPENDIX A TO PART 172—OFFICE OF HAZ- rial is forbidden in transportation, and ARDOUS MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION gives the proper shipping name or di- COLOR TOLERANCE CHARTS AND TABLES rects the user to the preferred proper 148 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:13 Dec 02, 2015 Jkt 235222 PO 00000 Frm 00158 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Q:\49\49V2.TXT 31 lpowell on DSK54DXVN1OFR with $$_JOB Pipeline and Haz. Matls. Safety Admin., DOT § 172.101 shipping name. In addition, the Table (5) The letter ‘‘I’’ identifies proper specifies or references requirements in shipping names which are appropriate this subchapter pertaining to labeling, for describing materials in inter- packaging, quantity limits aboard air- national transportation. An alternate craft and stowage of hazardous mate- proper shipping name may be selected rials aboard vessels. when only domestic transportation is (b) Column 1: Symbols. Column 1 of the involved. Table contains six symbols (‘‘ + ’’, ‘‘A’’, (6) The letter ‘‘W’’ denotes a material ‘‘D’’, ‘‘G’’, ‘‘I’’ and ‘‘W’’) as follows: that is subject to the requirements of (1) The plus ( + ) sign fixes the proper this subchapter only when offered or shipping name, hazard class and pack- intended for transportation by vessel, ing group for that entry without regard unless the material is a hazardous sub- to whether the material meets the defi- stance or a hazardous waste. A ship- nition of that class, packing group or ping description entry preceded by a any other hazard class definition. When ‘‘W’’ may be used to describe a mate- the plus sign is assigned to a proper rial for other modes of transportation shipping name in Column (1) of the provided all applicable requirements § 172.101 Table, it means that the mate- for the entry are met. rial is known to pose a risk to humans. (c) Column 2: Hazardous materials de- When a plus sign is assigned to mix- scriptions and proper shipping names. tures or solutions containing a mate- Column 2 lists the hazardous materials rial where the hazard to humans is sig- descriptions and proper shipping names nificantly different from that of the of materials designated as hazardous pure material or where no hazard to materials. Modification of a proper humans is posed, the material may be shipping name may otherwise be re- described using an alternative shipping quired or authorized by this section. name that represents the hazards posed Proper shipping names are limited to those shown in Roman type (not by the material. An appropriate alter- italics). nate proper shipping name and hazard (1) Proper shipping names may be class may be authorized by the Asso- used in the singular or plural and in ei- ciate Administrator. ther capital or lower case letters. (2) The letter ‘‘A’’ denotes a material Words may be alternatively spelled in that is subject to the requirements of the same manner as they appear in the this subchapter only when offered or ICAO Technical Instructions or the intended for transportation by aircraft, IMDG Code. For example ‘‘aluminum’’ unless the material is a hazardous sub- may be spelled ‘‘aluminium’’ and ‘‘sul- stance or a hazardous waste. A ship- fur’’ may be spelled ‘‘sulphur’’. How- ping description entry preceded by an ever, the word ‘‘inflammable’’ may not ‘‘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 there is a transportation but may be inappro- choice of terms in the sequence that priate for international transportation may alternately be used as the proper under the provisions of international shipping name or as part of the proper regulations (e.g., IMO, ICAO). An alter- shipping name, as appropriate. For ex- nate proper shipping name may be se- ample, for the hazardous materials de- lected when either domestic or inter- scription ‘‘Carbon dioxide, solid or Dry national transportation is involved. ice’’ either ‘‘Carbon dioxide, solid’’ or (4) The letter ‘‘G’’ identifies proper ‘‘Dry ice’’ may be used as the proper shipping names for which one or more shipping name; and for the hazardous technical names of the hazardous ma- materials description ‘‘Articles, pres- terial must be entered in parentheses, surized pneumatic or hydraulic,’’ ei- in association with the basic descrip- ther ‘‘Articles, pressurized pneumatic’’ tion. (See § 172.203(k).) or ‘‘Articles, pressurized hydraulic’’ 149 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:13 Dec 02, 2015 Jkt 235222 PO 00000 Frm 00159 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Q:\49\49V2.TXT 31 lpowell on DSK54DXVN1OFR with $$_JOB § 172.101 49 CFR Ch. I (10–1–15 Edition) may be used as the proper shipping (9) Hazardous wastes. If the word name. ‘‘waste’’ is not included in the haz- (3) The word ‘‘poison’’ or ‘‘poisonous’’ ardous material description in Column may be used interchangeably with the 2 of the Table, the proper shipping word ‘‘toxic’’ when only domestic name for a hazardous waste (as defined transportation is involved. The abbre- in § 171.8 of this subchapter), shall in- viation ‘‘n.o.i.’’ or ‘‘n.o.i.b.n.’’ may be clude the word ‘‘Waste’’ preceding the used interchangeably with ‘‘n.o.s.’’. proper shipping name of the material. (4) Except for hazardous wastes, when For example: Waste acetone. qualifying words are used as part of the (10) Mixtures and solutions. (i) A mix- proper shipping name, their sequence ture or solution meeting the definition in the package markings and shipping of one or more hazard class that is not paper description is optional. However, identified specifically by name, com- the entry in the Table reflects the pre- prised of a single predominant haz- ferred sequence. ardous material identified in the Table (5) When one entry references an- by technical name and one or more other entry by use of the word ‘‘see’’, if hazardous and/or non-hazardous mate- both names are in Roman type, either rial, must be described using the proper name may be used as the proper ship- shipping name of the hazardous mate- ping name (e.g., Ethyl alcohol, see Eth- rial and the qualifying word ‘‘mixture’’ anol).