# Timberline Packaging Incorporated — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

**Citation:** 00-0283  
**Type / status:** guidance / guidance  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** 2000-11-02

00-0283 response to Timberline Packaging Incorporated concerning 178.601.

## Document text

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ofTransportation
U.S. Department
400 Seventh St., S.W.
Research and
Washington, D.C. 20590
Special Programs
Administration
NOV ! 2 2000
Mr. Gary L. Cohen
Timberline Packaging Incorporated
Ref. No: 00-0283
400 Technology Drive
Coal Center, PA 15423
Dear Mr. Cohen:
This is in response to your October 6, 2000 letter regarding the manufacture of packagings to UN
Standards under the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HIMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180). You state
that Timberline Packaging manufactures UN packagings for their customer Shandon, Inc. Shandon,
Inc. provided the specifications for the packaging they want Timberline to manufacture including the
specification markings to be printed on the packaging (i.e., UN4G/Y5.5/S/00/USA/+BE00210).
Shandon, Inc. has now asked that Timberline sell this carton directly to another company,
Polysciences Corporation. You ask whether you may sell this carton to Polysciences Corporation.
The answer is yes. The responsibility that Timberline Packaging has is to manufacture a packaging to
the exact specifications provided to you. The specification marking you apply identifies the third party
laboratory that certified the design type and Shandon, Inc. as the manufacturer of the packaging.
Selling the packaging to another company does not "transfer the certification" as you state in your
I hope this information is helpful.
Sincerely,
Delmer F. Billings
Chief, Standards Development
Office of Hazardous Materials Standards
128,3
000283
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