# Mr. Richard Olson — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** 11-0015
- **title:** Mr. Richard Olson — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 2011-06-29
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** 11-0015 concerning 173.315.
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U.S. Department Washlngwn. DC 20590
of Transportation
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety
Administration
Mr. Richard Olson
920 North Main Ave
Thief River Falls, MN 56701
Ref. No. 11-0015
Dear Mr. Olson:
This responds to your letter requesting clarification ofthe Hazardous Materials
Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180) applicable to the transportation of nurse tanks.
Specifically, you ask whether permitting or approval is required under the HMR for three
nurse tanks secured and transported on one trailer that is pulled by a pickup truck or semitrailer
operated by a private motor carrier.
Provided the requirements for nurse tanks specified in § 173.315(m) are met, multiple
nurse tanks mounted and secured to a farm wagon that are intended tor use in direct
support of agricultural operations do not require additional permitting or approval from
this Office.
I hope this information is helpful. If you have further questions, please contact this office.
Sincerely,
T. Glenn Foster
Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch
Standards and Rulemaking Division

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1200 New Jersey Ave (PlllI-lO)
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Subject: Anhydrous ammonia fann use nurse trailers
Dear Sir:
I am a director ofa Fann Coop which supplies fuel and fertilizer products to fanners.
Presently we deliver these Nurse tank trailers one at a time. Due to larger fann
equipment and further distances, we cannot keep up.
I would like to know if we can get a permit to haul 3 Nurse tank trailers on a trailer
pulled by a pickup or a semi trailer.
I feel this would be much safer hauling them on a trailer with adequate lights and braking
systems to meet all DOT regulations.
es ctfull yours,
(pQ..... ,--ichara
Olson
920 North Main Ave
ThiefRiver Falls, Mann 56701
218-681-3333
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