{"operation":"document","citation":"14-0113","title":"Ms. Alisha Horst — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2014-09-19","effective_on":null,"summary":"14-0113 response to Ms. Alisha Horst concerning 171.1, 171.8.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-14-0113.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-14-0113.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-14-0113","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/2014/140113.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nof Transportation\nU.S. Department\n1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE\nWashington, D.C. 20590\nlaterials Safet\nipeline and Hazardou\nAdministration\nSEP 1 9 2014\nMs. Alisha Horst\n575 Westfield Drive\nNew Holland, PA 17557\nReference No. 14-0113\nDear Ms. Horst:\nThis is in response to your March 28, 2014 letter to Mr. Magdy El-Sibaie, Associate\nAdministrator, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials\nSafety Administration (PHMSA), requesting clarification on the regulations for transporting\nhazardous waste under the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180;\nsee § 171.1, and § 171.8). Dr. El-Sibaie's Office forwarded your letter to PHMSA's\nStandards and Rulemaking Division for a response. In your letter, you ask why there are\ndifferences in the regulation of hazardous wastes between some states, instead of a\nnationwide standard of regulation for these materials.\nThe United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the federal agency responsible\nfor developing and issuing the United States' regulations on the treatment, storage, and\ndisposal of hazardous wastes. The EPA gives states the opportunity to have either the EPA\nor the state hazardous waste regulatory agency assume primary responsibility for\nimplementing and enforcing a state's hazardous waste program. To learn which states have\nchosen to permit the federal EPA to manage their hazardous waste programs, you may\ncontact EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response at telephone number (202)\n566-0200, or view its website: http://www.epa.gov/wastes/laws-regs/regs-haz.htm, or write\nto US EPÁ, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (5305P), 1200 Pennsylvania\nAvenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460.\nWhile the EPA regulates the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste, PHMSA\nregulates the pre-transportation and transportation functions, movement, and loading,\nunloading, and storage incidental to the movement of hazardous materials that are\ntransported in commerce within, to, or from the United States and its territories under the\nHMR (see § 171.1). The HMR define a \"hazardous waste\" as a hazardous material if it is\nsubject to the EPA's Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest requirements, specified in 40 CFR\nPart 262 (see \"hazardous waste\" defined in § 171.8). The HMR require hazardous wastes to\nbe properly classed, packaged, and described on a shipping paper and package marking when\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\ntransported in commerce. The HMR also require those persons preparing and transporting\nthese materials for transportation to be hazmat and security trained in conformance with 49\nCFR Part 172, Subparts H (Training) and I (Safety and Security Plans).\nI hope this satisfies your request.\nSincerely,\nIAnn Foster\nT. Glenn Foster\nChief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch\nStandards and Rulemaking Division\n2\n\n<<<PAGE 3>>>\n\nDOT/RSPA/OHMS\n28 March 2014\nUNIT\n14 APR 30 PM 3:30\nU.S. Department of Transportation\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration\nEdmonson\nEast Building, 2nd Floor\n3 172.101\n3173.12\n1200 New Jersey Ave., SE\nHazardous Waste\nWashington, DC 20590\n14-0113\nDear Dr. Magdy El-Sibaie, Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety:\nI have a concern in regards to the DOT regulations that apply to hazardous waste transportation\nwithin each state. Why is there not legislation for a country-wide shipping standard? It is a little\nbaffling that some states require more strict regulations for some hazardous waste while other\nstates are more lenient.\nI believe that the U.S. DOT should set the standard for the transportation of hazardous waste\nbecause there are multiple times that hazardous waste travels through different states, and our\nenvironment is too important to allow lenient transportation laws in one state to affect our\nnations ecosystems.\nIf there is any other personnel I should contact to further my concerns, please contact to me.\nThank you,\nAlisha Horst\n575 Westfield Drive\nNew Holland, PA 17557","truncated":false,"body_characters":3996}