# Presentation: 478643

## Hazardous Materials Transportation

**Hazardous Materials Transportation**

## Overview

**Who we are**
**What we do**
**Who our customers are**
**How we determine training needs and priorities**
**How we reach our customers**

## Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)

- Created under the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act (P.L. 108-426) of 2004
- Established PHMSA for pipeline safety and hazardous materials transportation safety operations

##  Federal Hazmat Law –  “protect against the risks to life, property, and the environment which are inherent in the transportation of hazardous materials in intrastate, interstate, and foreign commerce.”

*** ******Federal Hazmat Law –  “protect against the risks to life, property, and the environment which are inherent in the transportation of hazardous materials in intrastate, interstate, and foreign commerce.”***

## Responsibilities

- PHMSA is responsible for formulating, issuing, enforcing, and revising hazardous materials regulations (HMR) and issuing exemptions and approvals under the Federal hazmat law
- The HMR (49 CFR Parts 171-180) govern the packaging and safe transportation of hazardous materials by air, highway, rail, and water (except bulk transportation onboard vessels)

## Responsibilities (cont’d)

- PHMSA enforces regulations – emphasizing:
- Packaging Manufacturers, Retesters and Reconditioners
- Multimodal shippers of hazmat
- Modal administrations (FAA, FMCSA, and FRA) enforce the regulations respective to their mode
- U.S. Coast Guard (Department of Homeland Security) enforces the respective to maritime operations

## PHMSA’s Office of Hazardous Materials Safety

- Hazmat Standards
- International and Interagency Coordination
- Special Permits and Approvals
- Inspection and Enforcement
- Planning, Analysis and Technical Support
- Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grants
- Training and Information Dissemination

## Who Are Our Customers?

*Who Are Our Customers?*

- Hazardous Materials Carriers
- Hazardous Materials Shippers
- Package Manufacturers, Retesters, and Reconditioners
- State and Local Governments
- Law Enforcement
- Emergency Responders and Planners
**The Public**

## Determining Training Needs and Priorities

- Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety and Security Reauthorization Act 2005 a Legacy for Users (SAFTEA-LU)
- Agriculture
- HMR rule changes
- Cylinder
- 	requalification
- Infectious
-    Substance
- Wetlines
- Safety advisories
- E85

## How We Reach our Customers

*How We Reach our Customers*

## Training and Information Dissemination

- Enhance hazardous materials transportation safety through the development and dissemination of instructional and education materials
- Maintain liaisons with the hazmat transportation community
- Provide outreach and technical assistance through Hazardous Materials Safety Assistance Team (HMSAT)

## PHMSA Outreach for a Typical Year

- Distribute over 2 million training and information publications
- Receive and respond to more than 12,000 requests for assistance
- Assist more than 31,000 callers requesting information, clarification, or interpretation of the regulations
- Train more than 14,000 in the hazmat community

## Hazardous Materials Safety Assistant Team (HMSAT)

- http://hazmat.dot.gov/

## Hazardous Materials Safety Assistance Team Offers . . .

**Training, advice, recommendations to enhance safety compliance with the HMR and understanding of the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)**
**Conduct and/or participate in seminars, workshops and meetings on hazmat transportation**
**Multimodal Seminars**
**One-day Hazmat Transportation Workshops**
**International Association of Fire Chiefs**
**Many more . . .**
**Aid in the development of compliance assistance materials**

## Presentations For the Regulated Community . . .

**Overview of PHMSA’s hazmat program**
**Use of the HMR**
**Training Requirements**
**Package Selection, Marking and Labeling**
**Shipping Papers and Emergency Response Information**
**Placarding**
**Security Requirements**

## For the Emergency Response Community . . .

**Overview of PHMSA’s hazmat program**
**How to Use the ERG**
**Hazard Communication Requirements – What an Emergency Responder Should Know from the HMR**

## FY 2007 Upcoming Events Information

*FY 2007 Upcoming Events Information*

**Multimodal Hazmat Transportation Seminars**
**Workshops**

- http://hazmat.dot.gov/training/training.htm

## Training and Information Products

- Training Modules on    CD-ROM
- General Hazmat
- Security Awareness
- Hazmat Marking,  Labeling and Placarding Guide (Chart 12)
- Training Videos
- Materials of Trade
- Responding to Incidents Involving Commercial Explosives

## Emergency Response Guidebook

- Provides emergency response guidance to first responders of incidents involving hazardous materials
- Published every 3 – 4 years
- In 2004, PHMSA produced and distributed more than 2.1 million copies at no cost to the nation’s first responders

## Hazardous Materials INFO-LINE

**1-800-HMR49-22**
- (1-800-467-4922)
- Hours of Operation:  9 am – 5 pm  EST

- E-mail:  infocntr@dot.gov

- Obtain answers to HMR questions
- Request copies of Federal Register, exemptions or training materials
- Report HMR violations
- Fax on Demand

## Informational Resources

- http://hazmat.dot.gov

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