{"operation":"document","citation":"04-0196","title":"Hyundai America — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2005-01-18","effective_on":null,"summary":"04-0196 response to Hyundai America concerning 172.516.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-04-0196.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-04-0196.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-04-0196","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/2004/040196.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nJ.S. Department\nof Transportatior\nWashington, D.C. 20590\n400 Seventh St., S.W.\nSpecial Programs\nResearch and\nJAN 1 8 2005\nAdministration\nMr. Herbert Giles\nReference No.: 04-0196\nManager, Hazardous Material\nHyundai America\n1425 Greenway Drive\nSuite 600\nIrving, TX 75038\nDear Mr. Giles:\nThis responds to your letter requesting further clarification of\nthe placarding requirements under the Hazardous Materials\nRegulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180). Specifically, you ask\nif it is a violation to affix placards to a non-flat surface\n(e.g.: corrugated) of a freight container.\nIt is difficult for us to evaluate the merits of the specific\nplacard in question without seeing a picture of the placard on\nthe freight container.\nHowever, the HMR do not prohibit\nplacards from being placed on a corrugated surface if the\nplacards still comply with the visibility and display\nrequirements specified in § 172.516.\nI trust this\nsatisfies your inquiry.\nSincerely,\nHattie Mitchell\nChief,\nRegulatory Review and Reinvention\nOffice of Hazardous Materials\n: Standards\nMINANIMII\n172.516\n040196\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nSatterthumute.\n5172.516\nHYUNDAI\nPlacarding\nAMERICA SHIPPING AGENCY, INC.\n04-0146\n20 December 2004\nTo:\noffice of Hazardous Material Standards (DHM 10)\nU. S. Department of Transportation\n400 7th Street SW\nWashington, D. C. 20590\nFrom:\nHyundai America Shipping Agency\n(Hazardous Material Department)\nIrving, Texas 75038\n1425 Greenway Drive, Suite 600\nSubj: Letter of Interpretation\ncitation by the Long Beach Police Department alleging that the\nRecently, one of our in-house trucking companies received a\ncontainer was not readable and therefore was in violation of section\nhazardous material placards affixed to the front panel of an intermodal\n172.516 (c) (5) 49 CFR.\nviewed from an angle rather than directly from the direction the\nIn addition, the citation states that when\nplacard faced, only \"927\" of the ID number 2927 could be viewed from\nthe officer whom wrote the citation was attempting to read the ID\nthe left front and only \"292\" from the right front.\nIn other words,\nnumbex 2927 from it seems a 45 degree angle.\nLong Beach policeman cited the trucker, the U. S. Coast Guard Marine\nJust minutes before the\nSafety Office had inspected the same container and found no defects or\nviolations of either the 49 CFR or the IMDG Code.\nplacard on a rail car must be clearly visible from the direction it\nSection 172.516 (a) reads \"Each placard on a motor vehicle and each\nmet by the placards displayed on the freight containers or portable\nfaces, etc\".\nThis section goes on to state \"This requirement may be\ntanks loaded or a motor vehicle or rail car.\"\n3. My question is:\ncontainer obscure the visibility of placards, is it a violation of the\na.\nSince the corrugated sides (especially the front) of a freight\nHMR to affix placards to freight containers that do not have a flat\nsurface welded on each of the four sides specifically for the purpose\nof affixing placards to its flat surface?\n4. I look forward to your response.\nBest Regards,\nHalibites\nHerbert\nHyundai\nManager, Hazardous Material\n972-550-2645\nAmerica\nMERIDIAN BUILDING • 1425 GREENWAY DRIVE, SUITE 600 • IRVING, TX 75038\nPHONE: (972) 550-2600 • FAx: (972) 550-2695","truncated":false,"body_characters":3235}