# Swidler & Berlin — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation

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- **citation:** CHI-94-001
- **title:** Swidler & Berlin — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation
- **source type:** guidance
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** guidance
- **official:** true
- **published on:** 1994-02-23
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** CHI-94-001 response to Swidler & Berlin concerning 171.2.
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of Transportation
US Department
Chief Counsel
Washington DC
4CC Sevenin St S W
20590
Research and
Administration
Special Programs
•
FEB 23 1994
Swidler & Berlin
Lawrence W. Bierlein, Esq.
Suite 300
3000 k street, N.w.
Washington, DC 2007-5116
Dear Mr. Bierlein:
I am responding to your inquiry concerning applicability of the
lazardous Materials Regulations (HMR), 49 CFR Parta 171-180
hich inplenent the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
(HMTA), 49 App. U.S.C. 1801 gt seg.
You inquired about the applicability of the HMR to hazardous
naterials transportation occurring solely within a privately
owned industrial park.
The HMTA and the HMR apply only to
transportation "in comnerce." 49 App. U.S.C. I5 1801, 1803
olely on private property is not transportation in cornerce;
and 1804; 49 CFR § 171.2 (a) and (b). Transportation occurring
therefore, that transportation is not subject to the HMTA or
the HMR.
Sincerely,
Assistant Chiet Counse
Edward i. Bonekemper, II!
Research and Technology Law
for Hazardous Materials Safety &
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