{"operation":"document","citation":"11-0061","title":"Ventura Transfer Company — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2011-08-31","effective_on":null,"summary":"11-0061 response to Ventura Transfer Company concerning 172.200, 173.22, 173.29.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-11-0061.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-11-0061.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-11-0061","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretations/2011/110061.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nU.S. Department ofTransportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue. SE\nWashington, DC 20590\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials\nSafety Administration\nMr. Jim Cheney AUG 31 2011\nCompliance Manager\nVentura Transfer Company\n2418 E. 223rd Street\nLong Beach, CA 90810\nReference No.: 11-0061\nDear Mr. Cheney:\nThis responds to your March 2, 20 11 letter requesting clarification of the Hazardous\nMaterials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180) applicable to shipping papers. You\npresent specific scenarios and ask for clarification pertaining to each.\nIn your letter, you describe a scenario in which a bulk transloading company unloads\nhazardous materials from rail cars into cargo tank trailers for delivery to end users. You\nstate that you have several satellite rail terminals from which you transfer the hazardous\nmaterial from rail cars to cargo tank trailers, and that your cargo tank trailers are based at\nyour main terminal. You further state that you reload the cargo tank trailers with the same\nmaterial that it arrived initially, without requiring the cargo tank to be washed. You then\ntransport the tank trailer with residue only to the satellite terminal. Finally, you load the\ncargo tank trailer with the same hazardous material as the previous delivery and take it to\nthe end user. You ask whether you are required to provide two separate shipping papers to\nthe driver for the residue shipment from the main terminal to the satellite terminal and\nanother shipping paper for the delivery of product to the customer?\nThe answer to your question is no. Generally, a package containing a residue of a\nhazardous material must be transported in the same manner as when it previously held a\ngreater quantity of the material. Therefore, you would only be required to have one\nshipping paper to describe the material being shipped in both the full cargo tank trailer and\nthe cargo tank trailer containing residue.\nI hope this satisfies your inquiry. Please contact us if we can be of further assistance.\nSi cer ly,\nStandards and Rulemaking Division\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\n!/7.2.\nIIndrtltl5\n~d\"\"6\nDrakeford, Carolyn (PHMSA) ~/Z;..:?~\nFrom: INFOCNTR (PHMSA) §11.J4 tf2 9 \"7)\nSent: Wednesday, March 02,20114:04 PM ~/i2.1?I;;1I %:ec:f\"/S\nTo: Drakeford, Carolyn (PHMSA) r,' V\nSubject: RE: Hazmat Information Center Feedback: Other Questions? 1/- A '?/\n-----Original Message----From:\nPHMSA-Feedback [mailto:PHMSA-Feedback]\nSent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:49 PM\nTo: PHMSA HM InfoCenterj PHMSA Webmaster\nSubject: Hazmat Information Center Feedback: other Questions?\nWe are a bulk transloading company that unloads rail cars into tank trailers for delivery to\nend users. We have several satilite rail terminals from which we transfer the products from\nrail cars to tank trailers. Our tank trailers are all based at our main terminal.\nAt times we have the opportunity to reload trailers with the same material without requlrlng\nthe trailer to be washed. When these occassions occur.e, we transport the trailer to the\nsatalite terminal some 2 miles away empty with only residue from the previous delivery. Load\nit with the same hazardous material as the previous delivery and then take it from there to\nthe end userLcustomer.\nWe provide the shipping papers to the driver for the delivery going to the customer.\nMy question is, do we need to provide a second set of shipping papers to the driver for the\njourney from our main terminal empty to the satilite terminal because the trailer does have\nsome residue from the previous delivery?\nOr, will the shipping papers given to the driver for the delivery to the customer suffice?\nName: Jim Cheney\nEmail: jcheney@venturatransfer.com\nPhone: 310.549.1665\n1","truncated":false,"body_characters":3685}