Action
Final rule.
Summary
RSPA is amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations to add a specific shipping description to the Hazardous Materials Table for chemical oxygen generators and to require approval of a chemical oxygen generator, and its packaging, when the chemical oxygen generator is to be transported with its means of initiation attached. Oxygen generators currently are transported under several different shipping descriptions which identify chemical constituents but do not identify that the packaged articles are oxygen generators. These changes will facilitate the identification of oxygen generators in transportation, making it easier to comply with and enforce existing prohibitions against the carriage of chemical oxygen generators on passenger aircraft and in inaccessible locations on cargo aircraft, and enhance packaging requirements.