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Title 49--Transportation

CHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

PART 173--SHIPPERS--GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIPMENTS AND PACKAGINGS
 •  173.1
Purpose and scope.
 •  173.2
Hazardous materials classes and index to hazard class definitions.
 •  173.2a
Classification of a material having more than one hazard.
 •  173.3
Packaging and exceptions.
 •  173.4
Small quantity exceptions.
 •  173.5
Agricultural operations.
 •  173.5a
Oilfield service vehicles.
 •  173.6
Materials of trade exceptions.
 •  173.7
U.S. Government material.
 •  173.8
Exceptions for non-specification packagings used in intrastate transportation.
 •  173.9
Transport vehicles or freight containers containing lading which has been fumigated.
 •  173.10
Tank car shipments.
 •  173.12
Exceptions for shipment of waste materials.
 •  173.13
Exceptions for Class 3, Divisions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, and Classes 8 and 9 materials.
 •  173.21
Forbidden materials and packages.
 •  173.22
Shipper's responsibility.
 •  173.22a
Use of packagings authorized under exemptions.
 •  173.23
Previously authorized packaging.
 •  173.24
General requirements for packagings and packages.
 •  173.24a
Additional general requirements for non-bulk packagings and packages.
 •  173.24b
Additional general requirements for bulk packagings.
 •  173.25
Authorized packagings and overpacks.
 •  173.26
Quantity limitations.
 •  173.27
General requirements for transportation by aircraft.
 •  173.28
Reuse, reconditioning and remanufacture of packagings.
 •  173.29
Empty packagings.
 •  173.30
Loading and unloading of transport vehicles.
 •  173.31
Use of tank cars.
 •  173.32
Requirements for the use of portable tanks.
 •  173.33
Hazardous materials in cargo tank motor vehicles.
 •  173.34
Qualification, maintenance and use of cylinders.
 •  173.35
Hazardous materials in IBCs.
 •  173.40
General packaging requirements for poisonous materials required to be packaged in cylinders.
 •  173.50
Class 1--Definitions.
 •  173.51
Authorization to offer and transport explosives.
 •  173.52
Classification codes and compatibility groups of explosives.
 •  173.53
Provisions for using old classifications of explosives.
 •  173.54
Forbidden explosives.
 •  173.56
New explosives--definition and procedures for classification and approval.
 •  173.57
Acceptance criteria for new explosives.
 •  173.58
Assignment of class and division for new explosives.
 •  173.59
Description of terms for explosives.
 •  173.60
General packaging requirements for explosives.
 •  173.61
Mixed packaging requirements.
 •  173.62
Specific packaging requirements for explosives.
 •  173.63
Packaging exceptions.
 •  173.115
Class 2, Divisions 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3--Definitions.
 •  173.116
Class 2--Assignment of hazard zone.
 •  173.120
Class 3--Definitions.
 •  173.121
Class 3--Assignment of packing group.
 •  173.124
Class 4, Divisions 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3--Definitions.
 •  173.125
Class 4--Assignment of packing group.
 •  173.127
Class 5, Division 5.1--Definition and assignment of packing groups.
 •  173.128
Class 5, Division 5.2--Definitions and types.
 •  173.129
Class 5, Division 5.2--Assignment of packing group.
 •  173.132
Class 6, Division 6.1--Definitions.
 •  173.133
Assignment of packing group and hazard zones for Division 6.1 materials.
 •  173.134
Class 6, Division 6.2--Definitions, exceptions and packing group assignments.
 •  173.136
Class 8--Definitions.
 •  173.137
Class 8--Assignment of packing group.
 •  173.140
Class 9--Definitions.
 •  173.141
Class 9--Assignment of packing group.
 •  173.144
Other Regulated Materials (ORM)--Definitions.
 •  173.145
Other Regulated Materials--Assignment of packing group.
 •  173.150
Exceptions for Class 3 (flammable) and combustible liquids.
 •  173.151
Exceptions for Class 4.
 •  173.152
Exceptions for Division 5.1 (oxidizers) and Division 5.2 (organic peroxides).
 •  173.153
Exceptions for Division 6.1 (poisonous materials).
 •  173.154
Exceptions for Class 8 (corrosive materials).
 •  173.155
Exceptions for Class 9 (miscellaneous hazardous materials).
 •  173.156
Exceptions for ORM materials.
 •  173.158
Nitric acid.
 •  173.159
Batteries, wet.
 •  173.160
Bombs, smoke, non-explosive (corrosive).
 •  173.161
Chemical kits.
 •  173.162
Gallium.
 •  173.163
Hydrogen fluoride.
 •  173.164
Mercury (metallic and articles containing mercury).
 •  173.166
Air bag inflators, air bag modules and seat-belt pretensioners.
 •  173.170
Black powder for small arms.
 •  173.171
Smokeless powder for small arms.
 •  173.172
Aircraft hydraulic power unit fuel tank.
 •  173.173
Paint, paint-related material, adhesives, ink and resins.
 •  173.174
Refrigerating machines.
 •  173.181
Pyrophoric materials (liquids).
 •  173.182
Barium azide--50 percent or more water wet.
 •  173.183
Nitrocellulose base film.
 •  173.184
Highway or rail fusee.
 •  173.185
Lithium batteries and cells.
 •  173.186
Matches.
 •  173.187
Pyrophoric solids, metals or alloys, n.o.s.
 •  173.188
White or yellow phosphorus.
 •  173.189
Batteries containing sodium or cells containing sodium.
 •  173.192
Packaging for certain Packing Group I poisonous materials.
 •  173.193
Bromoacetone, methyl bromide, chloropicrin and methyl bromide or methyl chloride mixtures, etc.
 •  173.194
Gas identification sets.
 •  173.195
Hydrogen cyanide, anhydrous, stabilized (hydrocyanic acid, aqueous solution).
 •  173.196
Infectious substances (etiologic agents).
 •  173.197
Regulated medical waste.
 •  173.198
Nickel carbonyl.
 •  173.201
Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in Packing Group I.
 •  173.202
Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in Packing Group II.
 •  173.203
Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in Packing Group III.
 •  173.204
Non-bulk, non-specification packagings for certain hazardous materials.
 •  173.205
Specification cylinders for liquid hazardous materials.
 •  173.211
Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in Packing Group I.
 •  173.212
Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in Packing Group II.
 •  173.213
Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in Packing Group III.
 •  173.214
Packagings which require approval by the Associate Administrator.
 •  173.216
Asbestos, blue, brown or white.
 •  173.217
Carbon dioxide, solid (dry ice).
 •  173.218
Fish meal or fish scrap.
 •  173.219
Life-saving appliances.
 •  173.220
Internal combustion engines, self-propelled vehicles, mechanical equipment containing internal combustion engines, and battery powered vehicles or equipment.
 •  173.221
Polymeric beads, expandable and Plastic molding compound.
 •  173.222
Dangerous goods in equipment, machinery or apparatus.
 •  173.224
Packaging and control and emergency temperatures for self-reactive materials.
 •  173.225
Packaging requirements and other provisions for organic peroxides.
 •  173.226
Materials poisonous by inhalation, Division 6.1, Packing Group I, Hazard Zone A.
 •  173.227
Materials poisonous by inhalation. Division 6.1, Packing Group I, Hazard Zone B.
 •  173.228
Bromine pentafluoride or bromine trifluoride.
 •  173.229
Chloric acid solution or chlorine dioxide hydrate, frozen.
 •  173.240
Bulk packaging for certain low hazard solid materials.
 •  173.241
Bulk packagings for certain low hazard liquid and solid materials.
 •  173.242
Bulk packagings for certain medium hazard liquids and solids, including solids with dual hazards.
 •  173.243
Bulk packaging for certain high hazard liquids and dual hazard materials which pose a moderate hazard.
 •  173.244
Bulk packaging for certain pyrophoric liquids (Division 4.2), dangerous when wet (Division 4.3) materials, and poisonous liquids with inhalation hazards (Division 6.1).
 •  173.245
Bulk packaging for extremely hazardous materials such as poisonous gases (Division 2.3).
 •  173.247
Bulk packaging for certain elevated temperature materials (Class 9) and certain flammable elevated temperature materials (Class 3).
 •  173.249
Bromine.
 •  173.300a
Approval of independent inspection agency.
 •  173.300b
Approval of non-domestic chemical analyses and tests.
 •  173.300c
Termination of approval.
 •  173.301
General requirements for shipment of compressed gases in cylinders and spherical pressure vessels.
 •  173.302
Charging of cylinders with non-liquefied compressed gases.
 •  173.303
Charging of cylinders with compressed gas in solution (acetylene).
 •  173.304
Charging of cylinders with liquefied compressed gas.
 •  173.305
Charging of cylinders with a mixture of compressed gas and other material.
 •  173.306
Limited quantities of compressed gases.
 •  173.307
Exceptions for compressed gases.
 •  173.308
Cigarette lighter or other similar device charged with fuel.
 •  173.309
Fire extinguishers.
 •  173.314
Compressed gases in tank cars and multi-unit tank cars.
 •  173.315
Compressed gases in cargo tanks and portable tanks.
 •  173.316
Cryogenic liquids in cylinders.
 •  173.318
Cryogenic liquids in cargo tanks.
 •  173.319
Cryogenic liquids in tank cars.
 •  173.320
Cryogenic liquids; exceptions.
 •  173.321
Ethylamine.
 •  173.322
Ethyl chloride.
 •  173.323
Ethylene oxide.
 •  173.334
Organic phosphates mixed with compressed gas.
 •  173.335
Gas generator assemblies.
 •  173.336
Nitrogen dioxide, liquefied, or dinitrogen tetroxide, liquefied.
 •  173.337
Nitric oxide.
 •  173.338
Tungsten hexafluoride.
 •  173.340
Tear gas devices.
 •  173.401
Scope.
 •  173.403
Definitions.
 •  173.410
General design requirements.
 •  173.411
Industrial packagings.
 •  173.412
Additional design requirements for Type A packages.
 •  173.413
Requirements for Type B packages.
 •  173.415
Authorized Type A packages.
 •  173.416
Authorized Type B packages.
 •  173.417
Authorized fissile materials packages.
 •  173.418
Authorized packages--pyrophoric Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  173.419
Authorized packages--oxidizing Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  173.420
Uranium hexafluoride (fissile, fissile excepted and non-fissile).
 •  173.421
Excepted packages for limited quantities of Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  173.422
Additional requirements for excepted packages containing Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  173.423
Requirements for multiple hazard limited quantity Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  173.424
Excepted packages for radioactive instruments and articles.
 •  173.425
Table of activity limits--excepted quantities and articles.
 •  173.426
Excepted packages for articles containing natural uranium or thorium.
 •  173.427
Transport requirements for low specific activity (LSA) Class 7 (radioactive) materials and surface contaminated objects (SCO).
 •  173.428
Empty Class 7 (radioactive) materials packaging.
 •  173.431
Activity limits for Type A and Type B packages.
 •  173.433
Requirements for determining A1 and A2 values for radionuclides and for the listing of radionuclides on shipping papers and labels.
 •  173.434
Activity-mass relationships for uranium and natural thorium.
 •  173.435
Table of A1 and A2 values for radionuclides.
 •  173.441
Radiation level limitations.
 •  173.442
Thermal limitations.
 •  173.443
Contamination control.
 •  173.447
Storage incident to transportation--general requirements.
 •  173.448
General transportation requirements.
 •  173.453
Fissile materials--exceptions.
 •  173.457
Transportation of fissile material, controlled shipments--specific requirements.
 •  173.459
Mixing of fissile material packages.
 •  173.461
Demonstration of compliance with tests.
 •  173.462
Preparation of specimens for testing.
 •  173.465
Type A packaging tests.
 •  173.466
Additional tests for Type A packagings designed for liquids and gases.
 •  173.467
Tests for demonstrating the ability of Type B and fissile materials packagings to withstand accident conditions in transportation.
 •  173.468
Test for LSA-III material.
 •  173.469
Tests for special form Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  173.471
Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved packages.
 •  173.472
Requirements for exporting DOT Specification Type B and fissile packages.
 •  173.473
Requirements for foreign-made packages.
 •  173.474
Quality control for construction of packaging.
 •  173.475
Quality control requirements prior to each shipment of Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  173.476
Approval of special form Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
 •  APP.
Appendix B to Part 173 --Procedure for Testing Chemical Compatibility and Rate of Permeation in Plastic Packaging and Receptacles
 •  APP.
Appendix C to Part 173 --Procedure for Base-level Vibration Testing
 •  APP.
Appendix D to Part 173 --Test Methods for Dynamite (Explosive, Blasting, Type A)
 •  APP.
Appendix H to Part 173 --Method of Testing for Sustained Combustibility