# Digital Audio Disc Corporation — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

**Citation:** CHI-96-001  
**Type / status:** guidance / guidance  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** 1996-03-07

CHI-96-001 response to Digital Audio Disc Corporation concerning 174.14.

## Document text

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US.Department
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of Transportation
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Spectal Progroms
Research and
Adminisiration
MAR'7 1996
Mr. Gary J. Garrahan
Digital Audio Disc Corporation
Environmental Engineer
P.O. BOX 3710
Terre Haute, IN 47803-0710
•
Dear Mr. Garrahan:
• am responding to your February 27, 1996 letter in which you
ısked about the application of the Federal hazardous materials
transportation law (49 U.S.C.
5101 et sele) and the Hazardous
Materials Regulations (HMR) (49 CFR Parts 171-180). In your
letter you stated:
Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC) owns and
operates two manufacturing facilities located
in Terre Haute, Indiana.
One manufacturing
Avenue
facility is located at 1800 N. Fruitridge
Avenue); the other manufacturing facility is
(on the west side of N. Fruitridge
east side of N. Fruitridge Avenue). DADC also
located at 3181 N. Fruitridge Avenue (on the
owns the properties on which both manufacturing
extend into N. Fruitridge Avenue.
facilíties are situated. The property lines
Since N.
Fruitridge Avenue is a public way, rights-of-way
exist.
underground tunnel which will run between the two facilities.
In your letter, you indicated that DADC plans to construct an
This tunnel will be used to move non-hazardous and hazardous
materials between the two facilities.
No actit ios
The tunnel would not be
open to the public and access would be restricted to DADC
personnel.
You asked if the Federal hazardous materials
transportation law or the HMR would apply to the movement of
hazardous materials through the proposed tunnel.
Based on the scenario outlined in your letter, néither the
would apply to the movement of hazardous materials through the
Federal hazardous materials transportation law nor the HMR
proposed tunnel. The jurisdiction of the Federal hazardous
materials transportation law and the HMR encompasses hazardous
materials transported "in commerce."
Thus, the Federal
hazardous materials transportation law and the HMR do not apply
to transportation that is entirely on private property and
neither follows nor crosses a public way.

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2
I hope this response is useful to you. If you have any
additional questions concerning the law or regulations
discussed in this letter, please call Robert A. Monniere at
202-366-4400.
Sincerely,
Edward H. Bonekemper, III
Assistant Chief Counsel for
Hazardous Materials Safety
cc: Mr. Edward I. Mazzullo - DHM-10

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