Department of Transportation Act

United States Code Annotated, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. A compilation of U.S. laws of a general and permanent nature consisting of 50 Tides. Although many provisions of various Tides affect transportation. Tides 49 (Transportation) and 46 (Shipping) are of particular iaterest. Among other important statutes iacluded ia Tide 49 are the ICC Termination Act of 1995 ( 10101 et seql), the Department of Transportation Act ( 101 et seql), and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act ( 5101 et seq.). Tide 46 collects various statutes pertaining primarily to water transportation. 

It should be remembered that significant social and environmental legislation did not appear until several years after the planning and design of Route 1-485 and the Stone Mountain Tollway had been completed. Landmark federal legislative provisions related to the evaluation of social and enviromnental impacts of highways were included in the Department of Transportation Act of 1966, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Clean Air Act of 1963, the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisitions Policies Act of 1970, and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970. 

The Department of Transportation Act, passed October 16, 1966, declared it to be the national policy that a special effort should be made to preserve the natural beauty of the countryside. Section 4(f) of that act stated that the Secretary of Transportation shall not approve any program or project that requires any land from a public park, recreation area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site unless there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use of such land. It further stated that transportation programs that require land from such areas must include all possible planning to minimize environmental harm. 

AH Department of Transportation (DOT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) rules and regulations should be reviewed prior to handling hydrochloric acid and all the regulations must be followed. AH employees handling HCl must be trained to ensure that they are familiar with the appropriate materials safety data sheets and appHcable regulations. 

Transportation and Disposal. Only highly alkaline forms of soluble sihcates are regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) as hazardous materials for transportation. When discarded, these ate classified as hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Typical members of this class are sodium sihcate solutions having sihca-to-alkah ratios of less than 1.6 and sodium sihcate powders with ratios of less than 1.0. In the recommended treatment and disposal method, the soluble sihcates are neutralized with aqueous acid (6 Af or equivalent), and the resulting sihca gel is disposed of according to local, state, and federal regulations. The neutral hquid, a salt solution, can be flushed iato sewer systems (86). 

Identify hazardous or regulated raw materials, intermediates, products and wastes that fall under OSHA, resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA), Department of Transportation (DOT) pipeline safety regulations or other impacting regulations. 

Standard for gauging flammability. The most common systems for designating flammability are the Department of Transportation (DOT) definitions, the National Fire Protection Association s (NFPA) system, and the Environmental Protection Agency s (EPA) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act s (RCRA) definition of ignitable wastes, all of which use flashpoint in their schemes. The NFPA diamond, which comprises the backbone of the NFPA Hazard Signal System, uses a four-quadrant diamond to display the... 

Subject to the Radioactive Substances Act 1984 and enforced by the Department of Transport. They impose requirements concerning the packaging, labelling and carriage of radioactive materials and the accompanying documentation. 

SAFETEA-LU (2005). Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act A Legacy for Users. Public Law 109-59. Washington, DC Department of Transportation. 

Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) provides the Department of Transportation the authority to regulate the packaging and movement of hazardous materials. 

The categories of liquids are further subdivided into classes according to the flash point plus the boiling point of certain liquids. These divisions are summarized in Table 8, which shows that flammable liquids fall into Class 1, and combustible liquids into Classes 2 and 3. The products that are at the low end (100°F) of the Class 2 combustible-liquid group might be thought of as borderline cases. These could act very much like flammable liquids if atmospheric temperatures were in die same range. It is not a common industry practice to identify either stationary or portable (mobile) liquid containers by the class of liquid it contains. The usual practice is to label either "flammable" or "combustible" and include the required U.S. Department of Transportation placard. 

US Department of Labor and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) administered by the US Department of Transportation (DOT). 

DOT- Department of Transportation FHSA - Federal Hazardous Substance Act FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 

The United States Department of Transportation classifications of explosive materials used in commercial blasting operations are not identical with the statutory definitions of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Title 18 U.S.C., Section 841. To achieve uniformity in transportation, the definitions of the United States Department of Transportation in Title 49 Transportation CFR, Parts I-999 subdivides these materials into ... 

In the United States, pipeline transport is regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT) through the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and... 

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