# The Clorox Company — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation - **operation:** document - **citation:** 14-0195 - **title:** The Clorox Company — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation - **source type:** guidance - **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration - **status:** guidance - **official:** true - **published on:** 2015-04-02 - **effective on:** Not available - **summary:** 14-0195 response to The Clorox Company concerning 171.8, 172.304, 172.315, 173.156, 173.25. - **machine formats:** - **json:** https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-14-0195.json - **markdown:** https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-14-0195.md - **app url:** https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-14-0195 - **source url:** https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/2015/140195.pdf **body:** <<>> U.S. Department of Transportation Safety Administration Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Washington, DC 20590 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE APR 0 2 2015 Mr. Maurice C. Carson Hazardous Materials Transportation Specialist The Clorox Company 1000 Cobb Place Boulevard NW, Suite 100 Kennesaw, GA 30144 Reference No. 14-0195 Dear Mr. Carson: This is in response to your recent letter requesting clarification of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180), and your October 14, 2014, conversation with a member of our Hazardous Materials Information Center staff, applicable to the limited quantity marking prescribed in § 172.315. In your letter, you state that your company places bleach products in packages that comply with § 173.156 on a pallet, and then surrounds these packages in a shrink-wrap overpack. You also state your company places the § 172.315 limited quantity marking only on the outer surface of the shrink wrap. Further, you state your company was cited for not placing the limited quantity mark on each package that complied with § 173.156. You ask if the HMR require this mark to be placed on the outer surface of each limited quantity package that is transported internationally by vessel. For those bleach products that meet the definition of a hazardous material and comply with the HMR's limited quantity regulations, the answer is yes. The HMR require markings prescribed in 49 CFR Part 172, Subpart D, which includes the § 172.315 limited quantity marking, to be printed on or affixed to the surface of a completed package that contains a hazardous material (see § 172.304(a)(1)). In your example, the completed package is the box of hazardous material bleach products that complies with § 173.156, and the overpack is the shrink wrap (see the definitions for "package" and "overpack" in § 171.8). If the markings the HMR require are visible through the shrink wrap, they are not required to be repeated on the outer surface of the overpack (see § 173.25(a) (2))). I hope this satisfies your request. Sincerely, TAlenn Frostes T. Glenn Foster Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch Standards and Rulemaking Division <<>> Edmorson $173.156 Limited Quanity Dodd, Alice (PHMSA) 14-0195 Sent: From: Ciccarone, Michael CTR (PHMSA) Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:07 PM To: Hazmat Interps Subject: FW: Letter of Interpretation Shante and Alice, Please submit this for a formal letter of interpretation. Mr. Carson spoke with Adam Lucas in the HMIC. Thanks, Mike From: Maurice Carson [mailto:Maurice.Carson@clorox.com] To: INFOCNTR (PHMSA) Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:49 PM Subject: Letter of Interpretation Good day, I am requesting an official Letter of Interpretation for the following Limited Qty Ruling.(173.156) The Clorox Services Company has been shipping Bleach products for years internationally, without any incidents. Recentlý one of our containers was sent back to a distribution center to have each BOX(772) individually labeled with the New Limited Qty Marking. This was done at a considerable cost as you might imagine. We have always Palletized, Shrink-wrapped and placed on one side the Limited Qty marking and also the wording OVERPACK.(173.25 a) This has been done, to the lack of visibility of each box. Your timely help with the clarification of this will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Maurice C. Carson Hazardous Material Transportation Specialist Kennesaw, GA.30144 678-831-2117(WK) 678-956-9140(Cell) 678-831-2053(Fax) Support A Soldier THE CLOROX COMPANY KINGŚFORD Fresty Masterpiece CLOROX SABRITA GLADI poetty for the use of the intended recipients). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information confidential to The Clorox Company and is intended only you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is 1 <<>> ., * immediately. strictly prohibited. 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