{"operation":"document","citation":"09-0307","title":"Lovitz PSC Environmental Services, LLC — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2010-01-28","effective_on":null,"summary":"09-0307 response to Lovitz PSC Environmental Services, LLC concerning 172.101, 173.21, 173.2a.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-09-0307.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-09-0307.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-09-0307","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretations/2009/090307.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nu.s. Department 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE\nof Transportation Washington, DC 20590\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials\nSafety Administration JAN 2 820m\nMr. James V. Lovitz\nPSC Environmental Services, LLC\n6405 Thornridge Dr.\nAvon. IN 46123\nRef. No. 09-0307\nDear Mr. Lovitz:\nThis responds to your letter requesting clarification of the criteria used to select the\nappropriate proper shipping name or names (PSN) for multiple compatible waste\nhazardous materials of various hazard classes and divisions contained within one outer\npackage under the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180).\nYou ask whether one generic PSN from the § 172.101 Hazardous Materials Table may be\nused to describe all the different materials contained in the package or if the PSN must\nfirst be detennined based on the Precedence of Hazard Table in § 173.2a(b).\nAccording to you letter, the waste materials are compatible and comingling of the\nmaterials in transportation would not result in a dangerous evolution of heat, flammable\nor poisonous gases or vapors or corrosive materials (§ 173.21 (e»).\nYou may package inner containers of different compatible hazard classes in the same\nouter packaging. The materials must be described separately using the PSN, UN\nidentification number, and hazard class for each material contained in the outer\npackaging. Thus, the outer package must display the PSN, identification number and\nhazard label, as appropriate, for each hazardous material contained therein. See\n§§ 172.301 and 172.404. Additionally, all descriptions must be described in the same\nmanner on a shipping paper, if one is required.\nI trust this satisfies your inquiry. Please contact us if we can be of further assistance.\nSincerely,\nHattie L. Mitchell\nChief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nU.S. DOT\nPHMSA Office of Hazardous Materials Standards\nAttn: PHH-l0\nEast Building\n1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.\nWashington, DC 20590-0001\nDecember 10, 2009\nRe: Proper Packaging of Different Hazard Classes of Waste Pharmaceuticals\nDear Directori\nI am inquiring about the proper guidance in properly packaging waste pharmaceuticals.\nIn 49 CFR 173.21(e) it identifies that \"A material in the same package, freight container, or\noverpack with another material, the mixing of which is likely to cause a dangerous evolution of\nheat, or flammable or poisonous gases or vapors, or to produce corrosive materialsH is forbidden\nfrom transport.\nAssuming through generator knowledge, all inner container materials within a single outer\npackage, regardless of hazard class, would be conSidered to be compatible and would NOT create\n.....a dangerous evolution of heat, or flammable or poisonous gases or vapors, or to produce\ncorrosive materialsu\n•\nIs it permissible to package inner containers containing materials of different hazard classes (In\nthis case pharmaceuticals or other medical debris/waste (Non-Infectious, Non-Biohazardous» into\nthe same outer packaging?\nAnd, if so, is it permissible to use:\n1. The Proper Shipping Name (PSN) - UN3248, Waste Medicine, Liquid, Flammable, Toxic,\nN.O.S., 3 (6.1), PG II (Proper technical descriptors); or,\n2. Should we assign the PSN by identifying the two highest priority hazard classes per the\nPrecedence of Hazards table in 49CFR 173.2a? If so, would we need to identify the\nremaining hazard classes in the shipping description?","truncated":false,"body_characters":3422}