{"operation":"document","citation":"18-0064","title":"Ten-E Packaging Services — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2019-02-25","effective_on":null,"summary":"18-0064 response to Ten-E Packaging Services concerning 173.27.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-18-0064.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-18-0064.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-18-0064","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/docs/standards-rulemaking/hazmat/interpretations/70621/180064.pdf","body":"<<>>\n\nU.S. Department\nof Transportation\nPlpellne and Hazardous\nMaterial• Safety\nAdmlnl1tratlon\n1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE\nWashington, DC 20590\nFEB 2 5 2019\n, . .\nRobert Ten Eyck\nTen-E Packaging Services\n1666 County Road 7 4\nNewport, MN 55055\nReference No. 18-0064\nDear Mr. Ten Eyck:\nThis letter is in response to your March 21, 2018, email and subsequent conversations with a\nmember of my staff requesting clarification of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49\nCFR Parts 171-180) applicable to closure requirements for shipments of receptacles being\ntransported by aircraft. Specifically, you ask if your client's bottle design as described below\nmeets the requirements of§ 173.27(d) for secondary closures.\nYou provide technical drawings of your client's bottle design and further describe it as having a\nclosure with an interlocking flange design that once connected to the bottle cannot be removed\nwithout destroying the closure or the bottle neck itself. You also state that the closure\nincorporates an \"anti-back off' feature similar to a child lock.\nAfter reviewing the description and technical drawings you provided, it is the opinion of this\nOffice that the closure meets the closure requirements of§ 173.27(d).\nI hope this information is helpful. Please contact us if we can be of further assistance.\nSincerely,\nT. Glenn Foster\nChief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention\nStandards and Rulemaking Division\n\n<<>>\n\nJanuary, lkeya CTR (PHMSA)\nFrom:\nSent:\nTo:\nSubject:\nAttachments:\nKelley, Shane (PHMSA)\nWednesday, April 18, 2018 5:54 PM\nJanuary, Ikeya CTR (PHMSA)\nFW: Letter of Clarification\nNon-Removable Closure2.docx\nPlease assign for response and let me know who the specialist will be. Thanks!\nFrom: Robert Teneyck \nSent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:17:42 PM\nTo: Kelley, Shane (PHMSA)\nSubject: Letter of Clarification\nHi Shane,\nPlease see attached request for a written interpretation concerning the use of secondary closure seals. Let me know if\nyou need any further information to handle this packaging matter.\nRegards,\nBobT.\n- -·· N · · .·· -\nTE\n-\n' .\n.\nSetting the Standard\nRobert Ten Eyck\nrobert.teneyck@ten-e.com\nOffice: 651-459-0671\nFax: 651 -459-1430\nTEN-E Packaging Services, . Inc.\n1666 County Road 7 4\nNewport, MN 55055\nwww.ten-e.com\n1\n\n<<>>\n\nWolcott, Alexander (PHMSA)\nFrom:\nSent:\nTo:\nSubject:\nRobert Teneyck < Robert.Teneyck@ten-e.com >\nTuesday, October 02, 2018 11:07 AM\nWolcott, Alexander (PHMSA)\nSecondary closure seals\nConfirming our brief discussion today, our letter dated March 21, 2018 is not requesting an approval for the closure in\nquestion but rather an interpretation as to whether or not it meets DOT and ICAO requirements for secondary seals.\nRegards,\nRobert Ten Eyck\nTr- .\n···\n.\nI ,;;.\n···N .·· · ··.· .·· .... .\n·\n·\n• · ·\n.\n.\nSetting the Standard\nRobert Ten Eyck\nrobert.teneyck@ten-e.com\nOffice: 651-459-0671\nFax: 651-459-1430\nTEN-E Packaging Services, Inc.\n1666 County Road 74\nNewport, MN 55055\nwww.ten-e.com\n1\n\n<<>>\n\nTEN\nTEN-E Packaging Services~ Inc.\nMarch 21 , 2018\nShane Kelley\nU.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration\nStandards Development, PHH-11\n1200 New Jersey Avenue S. E.\nWashington, D.C. 20590\nRef.: Secondary closure seals\nDear Shane:\nBoth Title 49 CFR and the ICAO Technical lnstrucitons call for secondary seals on \"friction\" closures\nused with inner receptacles containing liquids that are shipped by air (reference Title 49 CFR Sections\n173.24(f)(ii) and 173.27(d) and ICAOTechnical Instructions Part4; Chapter 1; Paragraph 1.1.4.1). A\nclient of ours has developed a unique closure system that secures the closure to the bottle neck by use\nof an interlocking flange design. Once seated the closure cannot be removed without destroying it and\nthe bottle's neck. Product is ultimately dispensed through a septum located in the center opening of the\nclosure.\nSince the closure will not loosen under transportation conditions of temperature or vibration there is no\nreason to apply a secondary seal or to require the use of a leakproof liner. As such we believe the\nunique closure design should be excepted from these requirements and would appreciate having the\nagency either confirm our viewpoint or tell us why the design falls subject to these additional packaging\nrequirements.\nPlease let me know if you require any additional information to handle this request for clarification.\nEyck\nDirector, echnical Services\nTEN-E Packaging Services, Inc.\n1666 County Road 74\nNewport, MN 55055\nPhone: 651-459-0671\nFax: 651-459-1430\nEmail: info@ten-e.com\nWeb: www.ten-e.com\nUnited States - Minnesota\nTEN-E Packaging Services. Inc.\n326 North Corona Avenue\nOntario, CA 91764\nPhone: 909-937-1260\nFax: 909-937-1262\nEmail: info@ten-e.com\nWeb: www.ten-e.com\nUnited States - California\n2101 Shore Street\nHigh Point, NC 27263\nPhone: 336-803-4878\nFax: 336-804-5074\nEmail: info@ten-e.com\nWeb: www.ten-e.com\nUnited States - North Carolina\n\n<<>>\n\nWolcott, Alexander (PHMSA)\nFrom:\nRobert Teneyck < Robert.T eneyck@ten-e.com >\nSent:\nThursday, May 10, 2018 4:03 PM\nTo: Wolcott, Alexander (PHMSA)\nSubject: RE: Letter of Interpretation\nHi Alex,\nAs a further thought the closure design could certainly be considered to incorporate an anti-back off feature and could\nalso be considered to be a child-resistant design. I believe the agency has viewed such designs as meeting the secondary\nclosure requirement.\nRegards,\nBob T.\nFrom: Wolcott, Alexander (PHMSA) [mailto:alexander.wolcott@dot.gov]\nSent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:35 AM\nTo: Robert Teneyck\nSubject: Letter of Interpretation\nGood Morning Bob,\nI have been going over the drawing that you sent over with some others here and we just had one question for you that\nwe couldn't quite tell from the drawings. We were wondering of the bottle is sealed with something over the top of it\nbefore the cap is placed or is the cap the only method used to seal the bottle. Let me know.\nThanks,\nAlexander Wolcott I Transportation Specialist\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration\nU.S. Department of Transportation\n1200 New Jersey Ave., SE\nWashington, DC 20590\nOffice: (202) 366-4003\nRoom: E22-231\nEmail: Alexander.Wolcott@dot.gov\n1\n\n<<>>\n\nWolcott, Alexander (PHMSA)\nFrom:\nRobert Teneyck < Robert.T eneyck@ten-e.com >\nSent:\nThursday, May 10, 2018 12:17 PM\nTo: Wolcott, Alexander (PHMSA)\nSubject: RE: Letter of Interpretation\nThe cap has a flowed-in liner that engages the land area of the bottle to form a liquid tight seal. There is an additional\nfriction-fit cap that sits over the septum area of the cap that forms a secondary seal to the septum itself but not the land\narea. Hopefully I am not confusing this situation for you.\nRegards,\nBobT.\nFrom: Wolcott, Alexander (PHMSA) [mailto:alexander.wolcott@dot.gov]\nSent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:35 AM\nTo: Robert Teneyck\nSubject: Letter of Interpretation\nGood Morning Bob,\nI have been going over the drawing that you sent over with some others here and we just had one question for you that\nwe couldn't quite tell from the drawings. We were wondering of the bottle is sealed with something over the top of it\nbefore the cap is placed or is the cap the only method used to seal the bottle. 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