{"operation":"document","citation":"09-0054","title":"Ricca Chemical Company LLC — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2009-04-16","effective_on":null,"summary":"09-0054 response to Ricca Chemical Company LLC concerning 173.22.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-09-0054.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-09-0054.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-09-0054","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/2009/090054.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nU.S. Department of Transportation\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials\nSafety Administration\n1200 New Jersey Ave. S.E.\nWashington. D.C. 20590\nAPR 1 6 2009\nMr. Loren K. Lowry\nDirector of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs\nRicca Chemical Company LLC\n448 West Fork Drive\nArlington, TX 7601 2\nRef. No.: 09-0054\nDear Mr. Lowry,\nThis is in response to your March 12,2009 letter requesting clarification of the Hazardous\nMaterials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 100- 185). Specifically, you request\nconfirmation that a product containing 0.1 % Picric Acid (2,4,6-Trinitrophenol) dissolved in\nacetone may appropriately be described as Acetone, CTN 1090.\nUnder 5 173.22, it is the shipper's responsibility to class and describe a hazardous material.\nThis Office does not normally perform this function. Picric acid (UN0154) is explosive\nwhen dry and requires approval from the Associate Administration prior to transport of the\nmaterial. However, it is the opinion of this Office that a 0.1% concentration of picric acid is\nsufficiently diluted in solution so that the solution is not regulated as a Class 1 explosive or\nas a Class 3 desensitized explosive liquid. Therefore, \"UN 1090, Acetone, 3,II\" is\nappropriate to describe the product.\nI hope this information is helpful. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to\ncontact this office.\nHattie L. Mitchell\nChief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\n3172, 101 .\nproper Shippin\nDrakeford, Carolyn <PHMSA>\ns --- *-- - -- .-- -- ** .-%-- --%-- - . -v - --- - --- em ---- 0 9 A c > 5 --- .\nFrom: INFOCNTR <PHMSA>\nSent: Thursday, March 12,2009 12:32 PM\nTo: Drakeford, Carolyn <PHMSA>\nSubject: FW: Request for Interpretation\nFrom: Loren Lowy [mailto:llowy@riccachemical.com]\nSent: Thursday, March 12,2009 11:15 AM\nTo: PHMSA HM Infocenter\nSubject: Request for Interpretation\nThis is a request for interpretation concerning the intent of 49 CFR parts 171 - 180 with respect to the selection of\na proper shipping name for Trinitrophenol solutions that are dissolved in Acetone or other solvents. Attached is a\nletter of interpretation from 2000 that agreed with the requestor that a solution of 1.3% Trinitrophenol in water did\nnot meet the definition of a hazardous material and therefore was not covered by the regulations.\nThis request for interpretation concerns a solution of 0.1% Trinitrophenol in Acetone or other solvents. Am I\ncorrect in the reasoning that if 1.3% Trinitrophenol in water is not regulated due to the Trinitrophenol, then a\nsolution of 0.1% Trinitrophenol in Acetone would not be regulated due to the Trinitrophenol but would be\nregulated with the proper shipping name of Acetone solution UN1090? The hazards of this solution are solely\nbased on the Acetone and not the Trinitrophenol.\nThank you for your consideration.\nLoren K. Lowy\nDirector of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs\nRicca Chemical Company LLC\n448 West Fork Drive\nArlington, TX 7601 2\n81 7-701 -3305\nFax 81 7-795-8848\ne-mail: ~lowy@riccachemical.com","truncated":false,"body_characters":3062}