# Hyundai America Shipping Agency — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

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- **citation:** 08-0004
- **title:** Hyundai America Shipping Agency — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2008-01-18
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** 08-0004 response to Hyundai America Shipping Agency concerning 172.203, 172.326.
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U.S. Department
of Transportation
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety
Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20590
JAN 1 8 2008
Mr. Herb Giles
Manager, Hazardous Materials
Hyundai America Shipping Agency
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Suite 400
Irving, TX 75063
Ref No.: 08-0004
Dear Mr. Giles:
This is in response to your letter dated November 17,2007 regarding the shipping paper and
marking requirements contained in the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts
17 1-1 80) that are applicable to a portable tank containing the residue of a hazardous material.
Specifically, you ask for confirmation that the allowance in $ 172.203(e)(l) to include the words
"RESIDUE: Last Contained" as part of the description on the shipping paper does not require the
proper shipping name marking, provided by § 172.326(a), to be supplemented with the words
"RESIDUE: Last Contained."
Your understanding is correct. You are not required to supplement the proper shipping name
marking on a portable tank containing residue of a hazardous material with the words
"RESIDUE: Last Contained." The requirement provided in $ 172.203(e)(l) allows you to
include the words "RESIDUE: Last Contained" on the shipping paper in association with the
basic description of the hazardous material previously contained in the package.
I hope this information is helpful. If you have fiu-ther questions, please do not hesitate to contact
this office.
Sincerely,
Chief, Standards Development ' Office of Hazardous Materials Standards

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17 November 2007
Office of Hazardous Materials Standards
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Attn: DHM-10, US Department of Transportation
400 7th Street SW
Washington, DC 20590-0001
Hyundai America Shipping Agency
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Suite '400
Irving, Texas 75063
re: 172.203(e)(l)and(2) - Shipping Paper Requirements
172.326(a) - Marking of Portable Tank Requirements
Encl: (1) Picture of Portable Tank
1. Part 172.203(e) (1) addresses the requirement to supplement the
shipping description on a shipping paper to include the words or phrase
"Residue Last Contained" before the basic description. Part 172.336(a)
addresses the requirement for a portable tank to be marked with the
proper shipping name on two opposing sides.
2. Hyundai America requests clarification concerning the marking of
portable tanks. Please confirm that the Proper Shipping Name marking
on a portable tank does not need to supplemented with the words
"RESIDUE: LAST CONTAINED". Specifically, a portable tank being
transported had previously been filled with UN3394 ORGANOMETALLIC
SUBSTANCE, LIQUID, PYROPHORIC, WATER-REACTIVE (TRIETHYLAMUMINUM), CLASS
4.2(4.3) PG I and only contained residue of that product. The tank was
marked on two opposing sides with the PSN - ORGANOMETALLIC SUBSTANCE,
LIQUID, PYROPHORIC, WATER-REACTIVE and included the chemical
description (TRIETHYLALUMINUM). Enclosure (1) is a picture of the tank
markings.
3. Supplementing Proper Shipping Names with the words or phase
"Residue: Last Contained" is only a shipping papers requirement and has
no impact on the marking of portable tanks.
4. Please confirm if my interpretations above are correct.
Best Regards,
kerb ~iles
Manager, Hazardous Materials
Hyundai America Shipping Agency
972-550-2645
a HYUNDAI AMERICA SHIPPING AGENCY, INC.
7701 U S COLINAS RIDGE, SUITE 400, IRVING, TX 75063
TEL: (972) 373-3 100 FAX: (972) 373-31 39

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3394
* CHEMICAL EXTINGUISHER
MADE IN USA
TEA. EAT
P0-4147003432
TANP
-USE DRY-Y
CARGO ERE ANOID WATER A
(TRIETHYLALUMINUM)
PYROPHORIC, WATER-REACTIVE
ORGANOMETALLIC SUBSTANCE, LIQUID
US Z2774
DANGEROUS""
12/12/2007
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