# SHISEIDO Group USA — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

**Citation:** 14-0187  
**Type / status:** guidance / guidance  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** 2015-01-08

14-0187 response to SHISEIDO Group USA concerning 173.150, 173.23.

## Document text

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of Transportation
U.S. Department
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20590
Materials Safety
Pipeline and Hazardous
Administration
JAN 0 8 2015
Ms. Diana Olivari
Senior Manager Logistics
SHISEIDO Group USA
301 Rte 17
Rutherford, NJ 07070
Ref. No.: 14-0187
Dear Ms. Olivari:
This responds to your October 6, 2014 letter requesting clarification of the Hazardous
Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180) applicable to packagings permanently
marked with a special permit number. In your letter, you note that you offer for
transportation packagings that utilized "DOT-SP 9275." This special permit authorized the
transportation in commerce of certain limited quantities of liquids and solids containing
ethyl alcohol and exempted these shipments from the provisions of 49 CFR Parts 100-185.
Further, you acknowledge that PHMSA incorporated the provisions of "DOT-SP 9275" into
the HMR under the HM-233C Final Rule published in the Federal Register on March 18,
2014 [79 FR 15033], and effective April 17, 2014. Special permit "DOT-SP 9275" became
unnecessary because this Final Rule added a new paragraph (g) to § 173.150 authorizing
limited quantities of retail products containing ethyl alcohol. You ask whether you may
continue to offer for transportation packagings that were pre-printed prior to the Final Rule's
effective date and permanently marked with "DOT-SP 9275" even though the special permit
is no longer necessary?
The answer is yes. As provided in §.173.23(h), a packaging that is permanently marked
with a special permit number, "DOT-SP" or "DOT-E," for which the provisions of the
special permit have been incorporated into the HMR may continue to be used for the life of
the packaging without obliterating or otherwise removing the special permit number.
I trust this satisfies your inquiry. Please contact us if we can be of further assistance.
Sincerely,
TAlenn
Frost
T. Glenn Foster
Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch
Standards and Rulemaking Division

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Nickels
173.15
Goodall, Shante CTR (PHMSA)
marthincs
From:
14-0187
Sent:
Ciccarone, Michael CTR (PHMSA)
Monday, October 06, 2014 2:30 PM
To:
Hazmat Interps
Subject:
FW: DOT SP9275
Shante and Alice,
Please submit this for a formal letter of interpretation. Ms. Olivari spoke with Shelby Geller in the HMIC.
Thanks,
Mike
From: Olivari, Diana [mailto: DOlivari@sac.shiseido.com|
To: INFOCNTR (PHMSA)
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 1:37 PM
Cc: 'Kevin.McAdams@r-a-specialists.com'
Subject: DOT SP9275
It is my understanding that the exemption has been written into the regulations 49CFR Section 173150
When do we seize using the DOT marking on the cartons? When our renewal expires? Or effective 2015?
Can I please get a formal letter of interpretation, as I do not want to be penalized for using the marking once new
regulations are in affect.
Diana Olivari
Senior Manager Logistics
SHISEIDO Group USA
301 Rte 17
Rutherford, NJ 07070 USA
Phone/efax 201.651.3867
dolivari@sac.shiseido.com
SHISEIDOGs:
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BARE ESCENT ASS • BRISA• PALIS INTA SERES

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