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Enforcement Decisions

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Newport Cargo Consolidated d/b/a Touchdown Freight

Docket Order: PHMSA-2007-0052

The Chief Counsel found that Respondent had improperly prepared its shipping paper and had failed to register with DOT as required. The Chief Counsel issued a warning with respect to the alleged security plan violation and dismissed the training record violation. The Chief Counsel also dismissed an alleged violation of the requirement to provide an emergency response telephone number because Respondent was a freight forwarder and was entitled to use the telephone number provided by the original shipper.

Baytec Service Company

Docket Order: PHMSA-2007-27643

The Chief Counsel assessed a civil penalty of $750 for the two violations of the HMR. (1) Respondent's shipping paper did not provide the information (UN ID number and proper shipping name) as required by the HMR which was in violation of 49 C.F.R. §§ 171.2(a)-(b); and 172.201(e).(2) Respondent was not registered with the DOT as an offeror of placarded quantities of hazardous materials at the time of the inspection which was in violation of 49 C.F.R. §§ 171.2(a)-(b), 107.601(a) and 107.608(b).

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

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).