# Lonza, Inc — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

**Citation:** 04-0184  
**Type / status:** guidance / guidance  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** 2004-10-14

04-0184 response to Lonza, Inc concerning 172.301.

## Document text

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of Transportation
U.S. Department
400 Seventh St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20590
Research and
Administration
special Programs
OCT 14 2004
Ms. Felicia L. Lynch
Ref. No. 04-0184
Lonza, Inc.
17-17 Route 208
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Dear Ms. Lynch:
This is in response to your August 6, 2004 letter requesting
clarification of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49
re-mark the consignor address on packages that were preprinted
with an address that is no longer a valid address for the
shipper.
Under § 172.301 (d) a non-bulk package must be marked with the
consignor or consignee's name and address. The address must be
a valid and current address of the consignor or consignee.
I hope this information is helpful. If you have further
questions, please do not hesitate to contact this office.
Sincerely.
Chief, Standards Development
Office of Hazardous Materials
Standards
040184
172.301 (d)

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BAH
$172.301 aLonza
marking
04-0184
Office of Hazardous Materials Standards Research and Special
Programs Administration
17-17 Route 208
Fair Lawn; NJ 07410, USA
DMH-10 U.S Department of Transportation
Felicia L. Lynch
400 7th Street SW.,
Product Safety
Performance Chemicals
Washington DC 20590-0001
Tel 201-794-2425
Fax 201-696-3525
felicia.lynch@lonza.com
6 August 2004
Interpretation of 49 CFR Section 172.301(d)
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to request an interpretation regarding 49 CFR section 172.301 (d). Our company is
moving its headquarters and consolidating locations beginning this month. We expect to
complete the move by September 2004. All product labels printed going forward will include the
new company address pursuant to section 301(d). However, we currently have a large quantity
of product stocked in warehouses for shipment. This inventory is marked with the current (soon
to be old) company address. We estimate that it will take several months for us to clear this
inventory. Re-labeling all inventories to note the new company address would be very
expensive and labor-intensive. Our warehoused material is labeled in accordance with all
applicable DOT regulations. Therefore; we request that after the company's relocation we can
continue to ship our inventory without ré-labeling until existing stocks are depleted.
Please note that the company name and 24-hour emergency contact phone numbers will
remain the same after the relocation. Additionally, there is a procedure in place to forward all
mail and telephone calls to the new address for several months after the move, and we are still
located in the same state. Thus, anyone attempting to contact the company based on the
address on the label would be able to do so.
Please let us know as soon as possible, whether we can continue to ship the existing inventory
after the relocation, and if so, for how long. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Best regards
Felicia L. Lynch
exch
Product Safety Manager
Lonza Inc.

## Provenance

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