Interpretation Response #05-0301 ([ALK Technologies, Inc.] [Mr. Joseph Tufaro])
Below is the interpretation response detail and a list of regulations sections applicable to this response.
Interpretation Response Details
Response Publish Date:
Company Name: ALK Technologies, Inc.
Individual Name: Mr. Joseph Tufaro
Location State: NJ Country: US
View the Interpretation Document
Response text:
Jan 17, 2006
Mr. Joseph Tufaro Reference No. 05-0301
Senior GIS Specialist
ALK Technologies, Inc.
1000 Herrontown Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
Dear Mr. Tufaro:
This responds to your November 16, 2005 letter regarding requirements under the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 17 1-180) for routing of hazardous materials on bridges and through tunnels. Specifically, you requested current information regarding routing of hazardous materials across certain “Texas-Mexico” commercial toll bridge crossings.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is the agency in the Department of Transportation responsible for promulgation of regulations governing the transportation of hazardous materials in commerce. The HMR apply to any person, including a department, agency, or instrumentality, that transports or causes to be transported or shipped hazardous materials in interstate, intrastate, and foreign commerce, by all modes of transportation (i.e., highway, rail, air, and vessel).
The Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is responsible for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR), Parts 200-399, addressing maintenance and use of motor carrier vehicles, including driving and parking rules and routing of non-radioactive hazardous materials NRHM). Federal standards for establishing, maintaining, or enforcing specific NRHM routing designations over which NRHM may or may not be transported is found in 49 CFR 397.71.
Except for radioactive materials, neither the HMR nor the FMCSR preclude States or other jurisdictions from determining appropriate routes for NRHM, such as on bridges or
through tunnels. You should contact the State(s) you are interested in to determine whether or not NRHM may pass over its bridges and through its tunnels.
I hope this satisfies your inquiry. If we can be of further assistance, please contact us.
Sincerely,
John A. Gale
Chief, Standards Development
Office of Hazardous Materials Standards
177