{"operation":"document","citation":"06-0115","title":"Waste Technology Services, Inc. — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2006-06-23","effective_on":null,"summary":"06-0115 response to Waste Technology Services, Inc. concerning 173.6.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-06-0115.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-06-0115.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-06-0115","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/2006/060115.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nU.S. Department\nof Transportation\nWashington, D.C. 20590\n400 Seventh Street, S.W\nPipeline and\nAdministration\nHazardous Materials Safety\nJUN 2 3 2006\nTed L. Nebrich, Jr., CHMM, QEP, REM\nTechnical Director\nReference No. 06-0115\n435 North 2ºd Street\nWaste Technology Services, Inc.\nLewiston, NY 14092\nDear Mr. Nebrich:\nThis is in response to your March 31, 2006 letter asking us to clarify what is meant by \"in\ndirect support of a principal business\" under the Materials of Trade (MOTs) exceptions\nprescribed in § 173.6 of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-\n180). Specifically, you state your company transports environmental samples for your\nand/or treatability studies, or to one location for consolidation and packaging, and you\ncustomers to a laboratory, a treatment storage and disposal facility (TSDF) for analysis\noften perform these tasks as a convenience for your clients.\nthan a hazardous waste, transported by a private motor carrier in direct support of a\nUnder the HMR, one of the defining conditions for MOTs is a hazardous material, other\nprincipal business that is other than transportation by motor vehicle. If a business uses its\nown vehicles and drivers to transport goods to and from customer locations, then the\nMOTs exception in § 173.6 may be utilized. Since your principal business is not\ntransportation, you may utilize the MOTs exception to transport environmental samples.\nlocations, the MOTs exception does not apply.\nNote, however, that if you hire a motor carrier to transport goods to and from customer\nI hope this information is ielpful.\nSincerely,\nHolle I mithell\nHattie L. Mitchell, Chief\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\nRegulatory Review and Reinvention\n173.6\n060115\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nEdmonson\nwIs\n$171.8\nWASTE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES INC.\n8173.6\nDefinitions/ MOl\nMarch 31, 2006\n06-0115\nMs. Hattie L. Mitchell, Chief\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\nRegulatory Review and Reinvention\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration\n400 Seventh Street, SW\nWashington, DC 20590\nDear Ms. Mitchell:\nFirst, I would like to thank you for your timely response to my Materials of Trade\nexceptions question (enclosed with your response). I would like to follow up these\ncorrespondences with a request for a further clarification of one of the points in the\nMaterials of Trade exclusion. Specifically, 49 CFR 171.8, definition of Materials of\nTrade (3) \"...in direct support of a principal business... \" As I mentioned in my previous\nletter, we as environmental consultants, for time to time need to transport said samples to\na laboratory or a TSDF for analysis and/or treatability studies. Sometimes even back to a\npoint of consolidation for further packaging and shipment to a laboratory or TSDF. It\nnot it is a convenience for our clients.\nmay not be a necessity (sometimes it can be to retain the business) but more often than\nTherefore, under these circumstances would these samples be transported \"...in direct\nMaterials of Trade?\"\nsupport of a principle business\" and thus satisfying one criteria of the definition of\nIf you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.\nVery truly yours,\nWASTE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, INC.\nT.L. Nebrich, Jr., CHMM, QEP, REM\nTechnical Director\nCorporate Offiden&B5sNørth 2nd Street, Lewiston, NY 14092\nTLN/tIn\nTelephone: 716-751-5400 • Fax: 716-754-8001\n2025 E. Main Street, Suite 101 • Richmond, VA 23223 • Telephone (804) 649-0700 • Fax (804) 649-2360\n5 Forest Park Drive • Farmington, CT 06032 • Telephone (860) 677-1146 • Fax (860) 677-4979\n7 Willowdale Court • Amesbury, MA 01913 • Telephone (978) 388-7877 • Fax (978) 388-8688\nwww.wtsonline.com","truncated":false,"body_characters":3683}