{"operation":"document","citation":"10-0099","title":"Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute, Inc. — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2010-06-16","effective_on":null,"summary":"10-0099 response to Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute, Inc. concerning 172.502.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-10-0099.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-10-0099.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-10-0099","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretations/2010/100099.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nU.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration\n1200 New Jersey Ave. SE\nWashington. D.C. 20590\nJUN 16 2010\nMr. Rick Patterson\nManaging Director\nSporting Anns & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute, Inc.\nFlintlock Ridge Office Center\n11 Mile Hill Road\nNewtown, CT 06470-2359\nRef. No. 10-0099\nDear Mr. Patterson:\nThis responds to your April 28, 20 I 0 request for clarification of the Hazardous Materials\nRegulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-1S0). Specifically, you ask PHMSA to clarify that only\nshipments of Division 1.4 materials requiring placards are subject to security plans and that any\nload not requiring placards, whether or not it is permissively placarded, is not subject to the security\nplan requirements.\nYou indicate that PHMSA's intent has been to require security plans for shipments requiring\nplacarding under part 172, subpart F. However, in the recently published final rule, HM-232F, (75\nFR 10974; March 9, 2010), the revised security plan applicability requirement states, \"A quantity of\na Division 1.4, 1.5, or 1.6 material requiring placarding in accordance with § 1 72.504( c)\" (75 FR\n10989). You are concerned that this reference to § 1 72.504( c), narrowed from the previous\n\"subpart F\", could be reversely interpreted to exclude other placarding exceptions, e.g.,\n§ 172.504(f)(6).\nIt was our intent that the security plan requirements for Division lA, 1.5, and 1.6 explosives\ncontinue to apply as they did prior to publication of the HM-232F, final rule. In the preamble we\nsay, \"the security planning requirement will apply, as it does now, to all Division 104 explosives\ntransported in quantities that require placarding under Subpart F of Part 172 of the HMR.\" (75 FR\n10979). The reference to § I 72.504( c) in § 1 72.S00(b )(2) of the final rule is a drafting error. The\nerror will be corrected in a future rulemaking.\nI hope this answers your inquiry. If you need additional assistance, please contact this Office.\nSincer1ly,\na4~\nCharles E. Betts\nChief, Standards Development\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\n®\nSPORTING A~/.lS AND AMMUNITION MAN!.JFACT!.JREtRS· INSTITUTE, INC.\nSINCE 1926\nApril 28, 2010\nEdward Mazzullo\nOffice of Hazal'dous Materials Standards\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrati.on\nAttn: PHH-l 0\nU.S. Depa11ment ofTl'anSp0l1ation\nEast Building, 1200 New Jersey A Venue, SE\nWashington, DC 20590-0001\nRc: Request for Intel'pl'etation 011 Security Plan Aplllicability\nDear Mr. MazzuHo:\nThe Sporting Arms and Aimmmition M.anufactllrers' Institute (SAAMI) was created at the\nrequest of the US Government in 1926, Our mission was - and continues to be ~ creating\nstandards for safety, reliability, and interchangeability offirea1111s, ammnnition, and components,\nSafety is the watchword of everything we do. We appreciate the opportunity to submit the\nfoHowing request for interpretation.\nOn March 9,2010, PHMSA published a finall'ule modifYing the applicability and components of\nsecurity plans. Our concern is with those Division lAS products which relate to anununition which\ndo not require plac.arding, Le.:\nUN 0012 Cartridges, small anns lAS PG II\nUN 0014 Cartridges, small arms, blank lAS PO II\nUN 0044 Primers, cap type lAS pon\nUN0376 Primers, tubular lAS PGn\nIn this letter we are asking PHMSA to clarify that these products are not subject to security plan\nrequriemenfs, as foHows.\nRegarding the intent of PHMSA's changes, we note the stateme.nt in themle's preamble:\n\"It was not our intent to significantly expand upon current security planning requirements\napplicable to explosives. In the NPRM, we indicated that most Division 1.4 explosives do not\npose a signifIcant transpol1ation security risk and limited security plan requirements to any\nquantity of a material identified as UN 0] 04, UN 0237, UN 0255, UN 0267, UN 0289, UN\n0361, UN 0365 j UN 0366, UN 0440, UN 0441~ UN 0455, UN 0456, or UN 0500.\"\n-\n-\n-~------...\n•..\n-~--.\nFLiNTLOCI< RIDGE OFFICE GENTER '. 11 MILE HILL ROAD' NEWTOWN, CT 06470-2359 • (203) 426-4358 • FAX (203) 426-3592\n\n<<<PAGE 3>>>\n\nPHMSA, Security Plan Applicability April 28; 2010 Page 2 of2\nTherefore, the p1'Oducts of interest to SAAMI do not pose a significant transport security risk. With\nregard to these products, the previous security plan applicability was determined by placarding\nrequirements as stated in 172.800(b)(7):\n172.800(b)(7) A qualltityofhazardous material that requires placarding under the\nprovisions of subpart F ofthis patt.\nWe conclude from this that PHMSA's intent has been to trigger security plans for shipments\nrequiring placarding, and not for shipments which don't require placarding, but are placarded\nvoluntarily in accordance with the penllissive pJacarding rule ill 49 CFR 1'l2.502(e).\nThe products classified as UN 0012,0014,0044 and 0376 do not require placarding in any quantity.\nThis is because they do not require labeling in the 172.101 hazmat table, and are thereby excepted\nfi'om placarding by 172.504(f)(6), which states:\n(6) The EXPLOSIVE 1.4 placard is 11,Ot required for those Division 1.4 Compatibility\nGroup S (l.4S) materials that 81'e not requh'ed to be labeled l.4S.\nAs ofthe March 9th Federal Register, the revised security plan applicability requirement is stated as:\n(2) A quantity ofa Division 1.4) 1.5,01' 1.6 material requiring placarding in accordance\nwith § 172.S04(c);\nWe believe that PHMSA is here identifying that most Division 1.4 products do not require\nplacarding for shipments Jess than 1,001 pounds, and thus are not subject to security plan\nrequirements unless exceeding that level. We are concerned that this helpful pointer to the 1,001\npound placardingexception 172.504(0), nalTowed from the previous \"subpalt F'\" could be reveI'sely\ninterpreted to exclude other placarding exceptions, e.g. 172.504(f)(6). .\nWe ask that PHMSA please clarify that only shipments ofDivision 1.4 requiring placards trigger the\nsecurity plan requirements, and that any load not requiring placards, whether or not it is permissively\nplacarded, is not subject to the security plan requirements.\nRick Patterson\nManaging Director","truncated":false,"body_characters":6148}