Materials Transportation Bureau

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Transportation, Materials Transportation Bureau, Department of Transportation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washkigton, D.C., 1976, Chapt. 1, Parts 100—199. 

Available from U. S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Materials Transportation Bureau, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington,... 

Because of the descriptive nature of the flammable solid and oxidizer definitions it is difficult to determine if a material falls within the definition of either hazard class. In efforts to make both definitions more specific and to provide tests which would allow appropriate classification, the Materials Transportation Bureau has requested comments on new definitions and proposed test methods for the flammable solid and oxidizer hazard classes. The reader should become aware of these test methods definitions since they could become part of the regulatory framework. In addition, the test methods could serve as guidance, even at present, for decisions involved in classifying a material as a flammable solid or as an oxidizer. 

The most immediate consequence of the enactment of this legislation was the replacement, in July 1975, of the Hazardous Materials Regulations Board by the Materials Transportation Bureau. Thus, as incredible as it may seem, the authority to regulate hazardous materials in transportation was, for the first time since the Department was created, unified in one agency with a single administrator. 

All testing procedures for containers and bottles with capacity exceeding 3.78 L (1 gal) must satisfy the security requirements included in the US Hazardous Materials Transportation Act of 1989 and the requirements of Office of Operation and Enforcement, Material Transportation Bureau, as given in the Federal Register (49 CFR 178-24.a) [59]. 

Courtney, W.J. Kalkbrenner, D. Yie, G. 1977. Effectiveness of Programs for Prevention of Damage to Pipelines by Outside Eorces. Pinal Report DOT/NTB/OPSO-77/12. Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation, Materials Transportation Bureau, Office of Pipeline Safety Operations contract DOT-OS-60521. 290 p. (The Office of Pipeline Safety Operations later became the Office of Pipehne Safety within the DOT S Research and Special Programs Administration.) Transportation Research Board, National Research Council. 1988. Pipelines and Pubhc Safety. Special Report 219. Washington, DC. 

Guidebook for Initial Response to Haspirdous Materials Incidents, DOT P 5800.4, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C., 1987. Emergeny Handling of Haspirdous Materials in Suface Transportation, Bureau of Explosives, Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C., 1981. 

DOT Hazardous Materials Transportation Table, Chemical Regulation Reporter, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1980. 

Hazardous Materials Regulations, Department of Transportation Bureau. Fed. Reg. 41 5708, 1976. 

AAR (2000). Emergency Handling of Hazardous Materials in Surface Transportation. Bureau of Explosives, Association of American Railroads, Washington, DC. 

Concentrations over 8 wt % are classified as corrosive Hquids by the Department of Transportation (DOT). The Bureau of Explosives regulation (132) classifies all solutions containing 20 wt % and greater as oxidizers and corrosives. The product containers must have identifying labels (dmms) or placards (tank cars, tank trailers) indicating that the contents are an oxidizer and corrosive material, UN 2014 or UN 2015. Bills of lading must also be so identified. Tank cars and tank trailers are constmcted from high purity aluminum or 300 series stainless steel. 

Collfe R., R.J. Rubin, L.I. Knab and J.M.R. Hutchinson, Radon Transport through and Exhalation from Building Materials A Review and Assessement, NBS Technical Note 1139, National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington D.C. (1981). 

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2008), about 54 percent of those employed in the chemical industry work in production and in installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. Another 12 percent work in professional and related occupations. Approximately 9 percent work in management, business, and financial occupations and in office and administrative support occupations, and another 9 percent work in transporting and material-moving occupations. 

Other Work. In addition to the work conducted by Shell Canada Limited, a number of studies with similar materials have been conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute (29), the U.S. Bureau of Mines (30) and the National Research Council of Canada, Dept, of Building Research (31.). 

Regulations for transportation of explosives and of other dangerous materials were prescribed for US railroads by the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission), under the authority of the federal law, Act of Congress, approved June 25, 1948. The ICC may utilize the services of The Bureau of Explosives , organized by the American Railway Association in. 1906 to secure safery in the transportation of expls... 

A bureau of the Association of American Railroads which the U.S. Department of Transportation may consult to classify explosive material for the purposes of interstate transportation. 

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