{"operation":"document","citation":"05-0108","title":"Commonwealth of Virginia — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2005-06-13","effective_on":null,"summary":"05-0108 response to Commonwealth of Virginia concerning 172.504.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-05-0108.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-05-0108.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-05-0108","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/2005/050108.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nU.S. Department\n400 Severth Street, S.W.\nof Transportation\nWashingion, D.C. 20590\nHazardous Materials Safety\npipeline and\nJUN 1 3 2003\nAdministration\nSergeant David Feather\nRef. No. 05-0108\nSafety Division, Motor Carrier Safety\nCommonwealth of Virginia\nDepartment of State Police\nP.O. Box 10900\nFairfax Station, VA 22039-0900\nDear Sergeant Feather:\nThis is in response to your April 25, 2005, letter requesting clarification of the Hazardous\nsame placard must be displayed on each side and each end of a transport vehicle. You.\nMaterials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180). Specifically, you ask whether the\ndescribe a situation in which a vehicle transports 600 Ibs of a Division 2.1 (flammable\nThe vehicle is placarded on two sides with a DANGEROUS placard and on the two ends\ngas), 600 Ibs of a Division 2.2 (non-flammable compressed gas) and 600 Ibs of oxygen.\nwith a Division 2.1 placard.\nA freight container, unit load device, transport vehicle, or rail car which contains non-\nbulk packages with two or more categories of hazardous materials that require different\nplacards specified in table 2 of § 172.504(e) may be placarded with a DANGEROUS\nplacard instead of the separate placarding specified for each of the materials in table 2.\nEach side and each end of a freight container, unit load device, transport vehicle or rail\ncar must have identical placards in design and quantity. Thus, for the situation you\ndescribe, a carrier may not satisfy the placarding requirements by affixing a\nDANGEROUS placard on each side and affixing a Division 2.1 placard on each end of a .\ntransport vehicle.\nI hope this satisfies your request.\nSincerely,\nChief, Standards Development\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\n172.504\n050108\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nBAIt\nGIN\n172.504.\nPlacarding\n05 - 0108\nColonel W. Steven Flaherty\nSuperintendent\nCOMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA\n(804) 674-2000\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE\nFairfax Station, Virginia 22039-0900\nP. O. Box 10900\nApril 25, 2005\nMr. John A. Gale\nChief, Standards Development\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials\nOffice of Hazardous Material Standards\n400 Seventh Street, S.W.\nSafety Administration\nWashington, D.C. 20590\nDear Mr. Gale:\nenforcement community corcering this matter.\nI am respectfully requesting an interpretation concerning placarding. A question has been raised in the\nThe situation involves the use of the \"Dangerous\" placard.\nIf a vehicle were transporting the combination of the following Table 2 materials:\n600 pounds of a 2.1 Material\n600 pounds of a 2.2 Material\n600 pounds of Oxygen\nWould the use of a 2.1 placard displayed on the front and rear of a transport vehicle and a dangerous\n172.504(D)(3)?\nplacard displayed on two sides of the same transport vehicle be in compliance with 172.504(a) & (b) and\n$172.504 General placarding requirements, reads as follows:\nload device, transport vehicle or rail car containing any quantity of a hazardous material must be\n(a) General. Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, each bulk packaging, freight container, unit\nand in accordance with other placarding requirements of this subpart, including the specifications for the\nplacarded on each side and each end with the type of placards specified in Table 1 ard 2 of this section\nplacards named in the tables and described in detail in §172.519 through §172.558.\n(b) DANGEROUS placard. A. freight container, unit load device, transport vehicle, or rail car which\nplacards specified in Table 2 of paragraph (e) of this section may be placarded with a DANGEROUS\ncontains non-bulk packages with two or more categories of hazardous materials that require different\nplacard instead of the separate placarding specified for each of the materials in Table 2 of paragraph (e)\nof material is loaded therein at one loading facility on a freight container, unit load device, transport\nof this section. However, when 1,000 kg (2,205 pounds) aggregate gross weight or more of ore category\nbe applied.\nvehicle, or rail car, the placard specified in Table 2 of paragraph (e) of this section for that category must\n\n<<<PAGE 3>>>\n\nPage 2\nflammable gas if the transport vehicle also contains flammable gas or oxygen and it is placarded with\n(f) (3) A NON-FLAMMABLE GAS placard is not required on a transport vehicle which contains non-\nFLAMMABLE GAS or OXYGEN placards, as required.\nand each end, whether it would be a 2.1 Flammable Gas, or Dangerous. In reading the regulations,\nThe regulations do not clearly state that the transport vehicle must display the same placard on each side\nplacard for the Table 1 or the Table 2 material; while section 172.504(b) permits the use of the use of the\nsome believe that either placard would be in compliance. Section 172.504(a) requires the specified\nHowever, neither section requires that the same placard be displayed on each side and each end.\nDangerous placard instead of the specified placarding for each of the materials specified in Table 2.\nYou assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.\nSincerely,\nDawdl Peak\nDavid Feather, Sergeant\nDivision, Motor Carrier Safety\nVirginia Department of State Police Safety","truncated":false,"body_characters":5128}