{"operation":"document","citation":"11-0310","title":"Dannemiller Associates, Inc. — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2012-04-09","effective_on":null,"summary":"11-0310 response to Dannemiller Associates, Inc. concerning 171.2, 172.506.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-11-0310.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-11-0310.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-11-0310","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretations/2011/110310.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nU.S. Department\nof Transportation\nPipeline and Hazardous\nMaterials Safety\nAdministration\n1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE\nWashington, D.C. 20590\nAPR 0 9 2m2\nMr. Larry Dannemiller\nPresident\nDannemiller Associates, Inc.\n7792 Olentangy River Road-Suite #2\nColumbus, Ohio 43235\nRef. No. 11-0310\nDear Mr. Dannemiller:\nThis responds to your Jetter requesting clarification of the Hazardous Materials Regulations\n(HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180) applicable to the responsibility for the removal of placards\non a transport vehicle at a consignee's facility once the hazardous materials are unloaded\nfrom the transport vehicle and accepted in full by the consignee. You ask whether the\nconsignee or the vehicle operator is responsible for removal of placards no longer\nrepresentative of hazardous materials onboard a transport vehicle before it may depart a\nconsignee's facility. Additionally, you ask whether the HMR would allow a motor carrier to\nrequire in its tariff, that a consignee or its agent be solely responsible for the removal of\nplacards no longer applicable to what is onboard the transport vehicle.\nAs specified in§§ 171.2(k) and 172.502(a)(1), no person may display a hazardous material\nplacard unless the package or vehicle is transporting a hazardous material. Sections\n172.500(a) and 172.506(a) provide that the offeror and the vehicle operator are ultimately\nresponsible for complying with placarding requirements, which includes the removal of\nplacards representing hazards no longer present on the transport vehicle. Additionally, a\nmotor carrier may not impose a conflicting requirement, through tariffs or otherwise, on a\nconsignee when the consignee has not offered a hazardous material to the motor carrier\nrepresentative of the placards that remain displayed on a transport vehicle.\nI trust this satisfies your inquiry. Please contact us if we can be of any further assistance.\nSincere! y,\nT. Glenn Foster\nChief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch\nStandards and Rulernaking Division\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\n51-evens\n~\\/1.1\ns 113. z.z..\nDrakeford, Carolyn (PHMSA)\nFrom:\nSent:\nTo:\nSubject:\nINFOCNTR (PHMSA)\nWednesday, December21, 2011 3:18PM\nDrakeford, Carolyn (PHMSA)\nFW: REQUEST FOR INTERPRETATION\n~:ppe.r ~ l<esponsilJ,·j,~\nli-D310\nHi Carolyn,\nWe received the following request for a letter of interpretation.\nThanks.\nVictoria\nVictoria Lehman\nHazmat Information Center (HMIC)\nhttp://phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/info-center\n(202) 366-1035\nFrom: Larry Dannemiller [mailto:larry@dannemiller.us]\nSent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:04 PM\nTo: INFOCNTR (PHMSA)\nSubject: REQUEST FOR INTERPRETATION\nHazardous Material Information Center\nMr. Charles E. Betts\nDirector. Office of Hazardous Materials Standards\nU.S. DOT/PHMSA (PHH-10)\n1200 New Jersey Avenue. SE\nWashington, D.C. 20590\nWe are requesting a written interpretation from PHMSA concerning who is responsible for\nremoving placards from a freight container after the delivery of a placardable amount of\nhazardous materials to the consignee. and unloading is completed.\nThe situation involves the movement of a container containing hazardous\nmaterials from Japan into a U.S port where it is picked up by a designated carrier and\nmoved to the consignee • s facility where it is \"live\" unloaded while the driver is present.\nThe freight container remains attached to the truck. The consignee does not re-load the\ncontainer. When the truck leaves the consignee • s facility it is empty.\nQuestion 1: Before leaving the consignee's premises and driving on a public road, is the\ntruck driver who transported the container to the consignee • s facility responsible for the\n1\n\n<<<PAGE 3>>>\n\nremoval of any and all placards that were formerly used to signify the presence of\nhazardous materials inside the container on the inbound trip?\nQuestion 2: If the involved carrier had a provision in their Tariff that provided:\n.. \"consignees and/or their agents shall be solely liable for redelivery of containers to\ncarrier with placards removed\", if conflicting, would this provision take precedence over\nthe application of the Hazardous Material regulations under part 171.\nYour advice on these matters would be appreciated\nLarry Dannemiller, President\nDANNEMILLER ASSOCIATES, INC.\n7792 Olentangy River Road - Suite #2\nColumbus, Ohio 43235\nph - 614-431-8740\nfx - 614-431-8742\nWebsite: http://Dannemiller.us/\n2","truncated":false,"body_characters":4356}