Action
Termination of rulemaking concerning alternate standards for open-head fiber drum packaging.
Summary
As directed by Section 122 of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Authorization Act of 1994, RSPA has examined whether there are alternate standards for open-head fiber drums that provide an equal or greater level of safety as the HM-181 performance standards, for the domestic transportation of liquid hazardous materials. Because RSPA finds that there are no known alternate standards that provide an equal or greater level of safety, RSPA is closing this rulemaking without proposing alternate standards. RSPA initiated this rulemaking in an advance notice of proposed rulemaking published on October 7, 1994 [59 FR 51157], and invited the submission of further proposals and comments in a supplemental advance notice of proposed rulemaking published on January 25, 1995 [60 FR 4879].