# Town Paint & Supply Co. — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

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- **citation:** 03-0031
- **title:** Town Paint & Supply Co. — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2003-04-10
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** 03-0031 response to Town Paint & Supply Co. concerning 173.150.
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of Transportation
U.S. Department
400 Seventh St., S.W.
Research and
Washington, D.C. 20590
APR 10 2003
Mr. Jeffrey Aaron
Town Paint & Supply Co.
Ref. No. 03-0031
P.O. Box 101035
Lyman Street
Northboro, MA 01532
Dear Mr. Aaron:
This responds to your January 28, 2003 letter requesting clarification on shipping a lacquer thinner
product as a Consumer commodity, ORM-D, between Canada and the United States under
§ 171.12a of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts-171-180). Specifically, you
ask whether you must repackage the "Consumer commodity, ORM-D" material received from Canada
as "Paint related material, UN 1263, PG I'" before re-shipping the material to your customers in the
United States.
According to your letter, you ship and receive a lacquer thinner product packaged in one gallon metal
cans which are packed four to a case, as "Paint related material, UN 1263, 3, PG I" from your
supplier in Canada. You further state that the product is now arriving at your facility from Canada
packaged as a "Consumer commodity, ORM-D". You ask whether you must repackage this material
as "Paint related material, UN 1263, PG II" when re-shipping to your customers in the United States or
whether you may continue to ship it as "Consumer commodity ORM-D".
Section 171.12a authorizes a hazardous material that is classed, marked, labeled, placarded, described
on a shipping paper, and packaged in accordance with the Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG)
Regulations issued by the Government of Canada to be offered for transportation and transported to or
materials shipped from Canada as Consumer Commodities. However, it would not be acceptable at
this product to be reclassed and shipped as a Consumer commodity, ORM-D material, the quanity
173.150
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information, Docket HM-215E has proposed to add Special Provision 149 for the paint related
material entry. If adopted in the final rule, Special Provision 149 would authorize inner packagings of
months.
up to 5.0 L. We anticipate issuing a Final Rule under Docket HM-215E within the next several
I hope this answers your inquiry.
Sincerely,
Selm
Delmer F. Billings
Chief, Standards Development
Office of Hazardous Materials Standards

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Boothe
3 SOUTH MAIN STREI
(50B) 653-8932
ATICK 0176
§ 172.101
own
$|73.144
667 MAIN STREET
TEATICKET 02536
(508) 540-1933
(781) 324-5368
PAINT &
SUPPLY
ORM
206 BARNSTABLE ROAD
HYANNIS 02601
(508) 771-4290
IRLBOROUGH 017
1 HOWE STRE
03-0031
(508) 485-0538
TOWN PAINT & SUPPLY CO.
EAST HARWICH 02645
RTE. 137
(508) 432-3669
(978) 922-1107
HARDWARE - PAINTS - WALLPAPERS
ELECTRICAL AND PLUMBING SUPPLIES
41 MEETING HOUSE LANE
BUZZARDS BAY 02532
(508) 888-8237
WAREHOUSE & OFFICE
35 LYMAN STREET
P.O. BOX 1010
NORTHBORO, MA 01532
January 28, 2003
(508) 393-7746
WAREHOUSE
(781) 237-2296
OFFICE
FAX (508) 393-7842
MR. EDWARD T. MAZZULOO
U.S. DOT
OFFICE OF HAZARD MATERIAL SAFETY
RSPA
400 7TH ST S.W.
WASHINGTON D.C. 20590
DEAR MR. MAZZULOO:
WE SHIP AND RECEIVE A PRODUCT CALLED LACQUER THINNER PACKAGED IN ONE
GALLON METAL CANS FOUR TO A CASE. THE PRODUCT USE TO COME IN TO US
WITH A DIAMOND ON THE PACKAGE AND MARKED UN 1263 PGII CLASS 3. IT IS
OUR SUPPLIER RECOCHEM INC OF CANADA HAS INFORMED US THAT THE
NOW COMING IN TO OUR FACILITY. AS AN ORM-D CONSUMER COMMODITY.
REGULATION HAS CHANGED. (SEE ATTACHED LETTER)
UNITED STATES, DO I HAVE TO REPACKAGE THE PRODUCT OR CAN I SHIP IT OUT AS
MY QUESTION IS THAT WHEN I RESHIP THIS PRODUCT TO MY CUSTOMERS IN THE
AN ORM-D?
SINCERELY:
JEFFREY M. AARON
MSDS SHEETS LACQUER THINNER
ENCL:
RECOCHEM LETTER
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