Hazardous Materials Transportation Act

The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, passed in 1975, is the primary law governing transportation of chemicals and hazardous materials. The act includes a comprehensive assessment of the regulations, information systems, container safety, and training for emergency response and enforcement. The regulations apply to any person who transports, or causes to be transported or shipped, a hazardous material or who manufactures, fabricates, marks, maintains, reconditions, repairs, or tests a package or container which is represented, marked, certified, or sold by such person for use in the transportation in commerce of certain hazardous materials. [Pg.146]

Under this statutory authority, the Secretary of Transportation has broad authority to determine what constitutes a hazardous material, using the dual tools of quantity and type. By this two-part approach, any material that may pose an unreasonable risk to human health or the environment may be declared a hazardous material. Such a designated hazardous material obviously includes both the quantity and the form that make the material hazardous. [Pg.146]

The basic purpose of HMTA is to ensure safe transportation of hazardous materials through the nation s highways, railways, and waterways. The basic theme of HMTA is to prevent any person from offering or accepting a hazardous material for transportation anywhere within this nation if that material is not properly classified, described, packaged, marked, labeled, and properly authorized for shipment pursuant to the regulatory requirements. [Pg.146]

Under the Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations, a hazardous material is any substance or material, including a hazardous substance and hazardous waste that is capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce. DOT thus has broad authority to regulate the transportation of hazardous materials that, by definition, include hazardous substances as well as hazardous wastes. [Pg.146]

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)... [Pg.319]

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. [Pg.264]

Community Right-to-know Act TSCA = Toxic Substance Control Act, RCRA = Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, HMTA = Hazardous Materials Transportation Act... [Pg.1078]

The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) defines transportation releases to be those that occur during loading, unloading, transportation or temporary storage of hazardous materials or waste. Releases that meet certain criteria (see Table 64.1) should be reported to the National Response Center (NRC) and the state response center. Most states also require calls to the local police or response agencies (often by calling 911). Follow-up writ-... [Pg.1079]

Personnel. More than any other area, we are often asked "How many people has your corporation added due to TSCA " I don t know of anyone who has a concise answer to this question. Complicating the situation is the fact that the 1960 s and 1970 s saw a number of environmental and health laws go into effect the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, TSCA, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, to mention the major ones. This mixture of acts, with some similarities of purpose, developing within a time span of 10-15 years, has made a variety of similar demands. It is not easy at this point to attribute the addition of staff support personnel to an individual law such as TSCA. The same observation is applicable to all corporate resources which have felt the effects of TSCA however, in order to... [Pg.124]

The PSA of 1987 is currently promulgated by the DOT Office of Pipeline Safety under the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act as summarized in Table 2.3. Petroleum releases are addressed under 40 CFR Part 195 which is subdivided into six subparts (Subparts A through F). Although these regulations apply to pipeline facilities and the transportation of hazardous liquids associated with those facilities in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, they do not apply to transportation of hazardous liquids via the following ... [Pg.31]

Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) provides the Department of Transportation the authority to regulate the packaging and movement of hazardous materials. [Pg.52]

Under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, fuel oils are designated as hazardous substances subject to special requirements for packaging, labeling, and transportation (DOT 1989a, 1989b). [Pg.159]

DOT Hazardous Material Transportation Act Fuel oils are designated as hazardous materials which are subject Appendix A) DOT to requirements for packaging, shipping, and transporting Yes DOT 1989a (49 CFR 172.101 1989b... [Pg.160]

The Mine Safety and Health Act The Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act The Coastal Zone Management Act The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act The Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act... [Pg.174]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodentid.de Act Food. Drug, and Cosmetic Act Hazardous Materials Transportation Act National Environmental Policy Act Occupational Safety and Health Act Resource Conservation and Recoveiy Act Safe Drinking Water Act Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act Toxic Substances Control Act... [Pg.1711]

US Department of Labor and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) administered by the US Department of Transportation (DOT). [Pg.298]

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act Dangerous Cargo Act Federal Coal Mining Safety Health Act Federal Food Drug Cosmetic Act Federal Insecticide, Fungicide Rodent Act Federal Water Pollution Control Act Hazardous Materials Transport Act Occupational Safety and Health Act Safe Drinking Water Act Toxic Substance Control Act... [Pg.228]

The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act regulates used oil and petroleum distillates if they meet the definitions of "flammable" or "combustible." All used oil generators and transporters must comply with applicable Department of Transportation regulations for hazardous materials (49 CFR, Chapter I -Research and Special Programs Administration). [Pg.74]

Although EPA does not spell out criteria or statements for physical and chemical hazards other than flammability, it may require such statements on the label if data submitted with the application for registration indicate a potential hazard. The draft guidelines raise the upper limit of the flashpoint criteria from 80°F to 100°F, consistent with the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, provide specific criteria for labeling pesticles as non-flammable , and expand upon the flammability statements in Table 10.4. [Pg.291]

Consolidation of the various individual regulatory programs into a single set of regulations (an effort aided and abetted by the passage of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act in 1975)... [Pg.353]

In the United States, the Department of Transportation (U S. DOT) is the primary regulatory body for transportation-related regulations. The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) authorizes U.S. DOT to regulate the transportation of hazardous materials. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has responsibihty for safe and secure movement of hazardous materials by all transportation modes, with the exception of bulk marine shipments. PHMSA establishes the following hazardous materials regulations, which are contained in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) ... [Pg.16]

Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Homeland Security Advisory System... [Pg.188]

In addition to the plans described above, the Army must comply with applicable federal and state regulations for the transport of hazardous materials. The primary governing body of regulations is the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) administered by DOT and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) administered by ERA. Any potentially hazardous material must be tested to determine whether it meets DOT s criteria (explosive, corrosive, flammable, radioactive, etc.) for a hazardous material. Once a material is determined to fall within one or more of dot s hazard classes, 49 CFR then prescribes shipping... [Pg.121]

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) controls transportation of hazardous and radioactive materials under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act by regulations in 49 CFR 171-179. Shipments of samples to the laboratory and of waste from the laboratory must meet these regulations. [Pg.316]

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