# Hazardous **Materials**

**Tr ansportation** **Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Overview

• **Scope of Hazardous Materials**  **Transportation** • **Department of**  **Transportation’s Hazmat**  **Program** • **Training and Information**  **Products Hazar**  **dous Ma**  **terials Tr** **anspor tatio**  **n** 

## 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**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Hazmat Shipments in the U.S.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) currently lists approximately 3,000 hazardous materials (hazmat) descriptions – these materials, if accidentally or intentionally released, can pose risks to public health and safety, property, or the environment.

**Ov er**  **800,000 Shipments Daily**  **3.1 Billion T**

**ons Shipped Annually** **by A**  **ll Modes Hazardous Materials**  **Support $446 Billion of**

**US Economy A**  **nnually Hazar**  **dous Ma**  **terials Tr** **anspor tatio**  **n** 

## Annual Shipments **of Select**

**Commodities**
• Chlorine - 45,000 rail tank - cars • Anhydrous Ammonia

– 45,000 tank - cars

– 200,000 tank - trucks 

### • Gasoline - 18,000,000 tank trucks • Liquefied Petroleum Gas

– 56,000 rail tank - cars

– 2,000,000 tank - trucks**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Hazmat Transportation’s

**Safety Record –**  **All Modes** 

**2001 2002**  **2003 2004**  **Incidents Reported**  **17,794 15,1**  **17 15,162**  **14,740 Deaths**  **12 9**  **15 13**  **Injuries 168**  **136 11**  **9 289**  **Damages (in $M)**  **$69.4 $54.1**  **$53.6 $52.6**  as of 1 1/14/05**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

### 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.”** **Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## 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)**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Responsibilities **(con’t)**

• 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**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

### 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**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Hazmat Standards

• Produce and maintain national safety standards for hazmat transportation • Participate in international standards development • Provide guidance in compliance and enforcement of these standards**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## International and

**Interagency Coordination** • Promote a uniform global approach to the safe transportation of hazardous materials through the development of consistent domestic and international regulations • Participate in international forums as part of an on - going process of harmonizing the US Hazardous Materials Regulations with international standards and regulations**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Special Permits **and**

**Approvals**
• Administer a program for the disposition of requests for exemptions from, and special approvals under, the hazardous materials regulations**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Inspections and

**Enforcement** • Plan and manage a national program of safety inspection and enforcement of the hazardous materials regulations • Enforcement Specialists conduct compliance inspections**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Planning, Analysis **and**

**Technical Support**
• Provide integrated planning, development, and evaluation of programmatic activities • Provide scientific, engineering, radiological and risk analysis expertise and technical foundation for the national and international hazardous materials transportation safety standards and programs • Maintain the supporting information systems**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Hazmat Emergency

**Preparedness Grants**

• Provide financial and technical assistance to enhance State, Territorial, Tribal, and local hazmat emergency planning and training

• Distribute fees collected from shippers and carriers of hazardous materials to emergency responders for hazmat training and to Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) for hazmat planning**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## 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)**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## In A Typical Year, We . . .

• 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 • Issue more than 5,000 Approvals and more than 1,000 Special Permits • Train more than 5,000 Federal, state, and local representatives • Conduct over 1,600 compliance inspections**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## 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**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## 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**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## 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**Hazar dous**  **Ma terials**  **Tr anspor**  **tatio n**  

## Informational Resources

http://hazmat.dot.gov