Docket Order: PHMSA-2006-25897

The Chief Counsel assessed a civil penalty in the amount of $3475.00 for one violation in the HMR for offering Regulated Medical Waste, 6.2, UN 3291, PG II, for transportation in commerce when inner packagings were not closed so as to prevent materials from escaping and in inner packagings that were not authorized for use in transporting hazardous materials, which was in violation of 49 C.F.R. §§ 171.2(e), 173.22(a)(2) and 173.197(d)(1)(i) & (e)(1).