{"operation":"document","citation":"99-0054","title":"Ten-E Packaging Services, Inc. — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1999-08-10","effective_on":null,"summary":"99-0054 response to Ten-E Packaging Services, Inc. concerning 178.601.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-99-0054.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-99-0054.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-99-0054","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/1999/990054.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\nof Transportation\nU.S.Department\nWashington, D.C.\n400 Seventh Street, S.W.\n20590\nSpecial Programs\nResearch and\nAdministration\nAUG 1 O 1999\nMr. Robert J. Ten Eyck\nRef. No: 99-0054\nDirector, Technical Services\nTen-E Packaging Services, Inc.\n1666 County Road 74\nNewport, Minnesota 55055\nDear Mr. Ten Eyck:\nThis is in response to your letter of March 1, 1999, requesting clarification on the requirements\nfor testing packagings under the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR parts 171-\n180). Specifically you ask whether each closure for a packaging used under Variation 5 of\n§ 172.601(g) must be tested when the periodic design requalification is performed.\nThe answer is no. Nothing in the HMR requires testing of each different closure used under\nVariation 5.\nI hope this information is helpful.\nSincerely,\nSelm 763l6\nDelmer F. Billings\nChief, Standards Development\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\n990054\n178.601\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\nTENOE\n3178.601\nSetting the standard\n99-0054\nMarch 1, 1999\nEdward Mazzullo\nOffice of Hazardous Materials Standards\nDHM-10\nU.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION\nResearch and Special Programs Administration\n400 Seventh Street, S.W.\nWashington, DC 20590\nDear Ed:\nI am writing to request clarification on the use of selective testing provisions for single\npackagings found in Section 178.601(g)(5) of Title 49 CFR. Do.the periodic retesting provisions\nfound in Section 178.601(e) apply to those packagings with different closure devices or gaskets\nqualified under the Variation 5 selective testing provisions? For example, a manufacturer\ndesign qualifies a 20 liter, UN 1H1 drum with a 2\" pipe threaded plug and then employs\nselective testing Variation 5 to qualify alternative closures such as a 2\" buttress plug, a crimp-on\nclosure with pour spout and a friction-fit plug. When the 12 month periodic retest date arrives,\nis the manufacturer obligated to evaluate all the closure systems identified above or only the 2\"\npipe threaded plug design for which complete design qualification testing was originally\nconducted ?\nYour clarification on this testing matter is greatly appreciated.\nSincerely,\nRobert J. Ten Evck/\nDirector, Technical Services\nTEN-E Packaging Services Inc.\n1666 CoUnty Road 74\nHewport. Minnesota 55055\nemail:info@ten-e.com\nNOE\nNOH\nweb:uwo.len-e.com\n0671\n4591430\nISO 9002\nIS09002\nphone","truncated":false,"body_characters":2353}