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§ 172.602
(b) In addition to conformance with
§ 172.519, the background on the CLASS
9 placard must be white with seven
black vertical stripes on the top half
extending from the top of the placard
to one inch above the horizontal cen-
terline. The black vertical stripes must
be spaced so that, visually, they appear
equal in width to the six white spaces
between them. The space below the
vertical lines must be white with the
class number 9 underlined and centered
at the bottom.
[Amdt. 172–123, 56 FR 66264, Dec. 20, 1991, as
amended at 57 FR 45460, Oct. 1, 1992]
Subpart G—Emergency Response
Information
§ 172.600
Applicability and general re-
quirements.
(a)
Scope.
Except as provided in para-
graph (d) of this section, this subpart
prescribes requirements for providing
and maintaining emergency response
information during transportation and
at facilities where hazardous materials
are loaded for transportation, stored
incidental to transportation or other-
wise handled during any phase of trans-
portation.
(b)
Applicability.
This subpart applies
to persons who offer for transportation,
accept for transportation, transfer or
otherwise handle hazardous materials
during transportation.
(c)
General requirements.
No person to
whom this subpart applies may offer
for transportation, accept for transpor-
tation, transfer, store or otherwise
handle during transportation a haz-
ardous material unless:
(1) Emergency response information
conforming to this subpart is imme-
diately available for use at all times
the hazardous material is present; and
(2) Emergency response information,
including the emergency response tele-
phone number, required by this subpart
is immediately available to any person
who, as a representative of a Federal,
State or local government agency, re-
sponds to an incident involving a haz-
ardous material, or is conducting an
investigation which involves a haz-
ardous material.
(d)
Exceptions.
The requirements of
this subpart do not apply to hazardous
material which is excepted from the
shipping paper requirements of this
subchapter.
[Amdt. 172–116, 54 FR 27145, June 27, 1989; 54
FR 28750, July 5, 1989, as amended at 55 FR
33712, Aug. 17, 1990; Amdt. 172–127, 59 FR
49133, Sept. 26, 1994; Amdt. 172–149, 61 FR
27173, May 30, 1996; 87 FR 79774, Dec. 27, 2022]
§ 172.602
Emergency response infor-
mation.
(a)
Information required.
For purposes
of this subpart, the term ‘‘emergency
response information’’ means informa-
tion that can be used in the mitigation
of an incident involving hazardous ma-
terials and, as a minimum, must con-
tain the following information:
(1) The basic description and tech-
nical name of the hazardous material
as required by §§ 172.202 and 172.203(k),
the ICAO Technical Instructions, the
IMDG Code, or the TDG Regulations,
as appropriate (IBR, see § 171.7 of this
subchapter);
(2) Immediate hazards to health;
(3) Risks of fire or explosion;
(4) Immediate precautions to be
taken in the event of an accident or in-
cident;
(5) Immediate methods for handling
fires;
(6) Initial methods for handling spills
or leaks in the absence of fire; and
(7) Preliminary first aid measures.
(b)
Form of information.
The informa-
tion required for a hazardous material
by paragraph (a) of this section must
be:
(1) Printed legibly in English;
(2) Available for use away from the
package containing the hazardous ma-
terial; and
(3) Presented—
(i) On a shipping paper;
(ii) In a document, other than a ship-
ping paper, that includes both the basic
description and technical name of the
hazardous material as required by
§§ 172.202 and 172.203(k), the ICAO Tech-
nical Instructions, the IMDG Code, or
the TDG Regulations, as appropriate,
and the emergency response informa-
tion required by this subpart (e.g., a
material safety data sheet); or
(iii) Related to the information on a
shipping paper, a written notification
to pilot-in-command, or a dangerous
cargo manifest, in a separate document
(e.g., an emergency response guidance
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§ 172.604
document), in a manner that cross-ref-
erences the description of the haz-
ardous material on the shipping paper
with the emergency response informa-
tion contained in the document.
Aboard aircraft, the ICAO ‘‘Emergency
Response Guidance for Aircraft Inci-
dents Involving Dangerous Goods’’ and,
aboard vessels, the IMO ‘‘Emergency
Procedures for Ships Carrying Dan-
gerous Goods’’, or equivalent docu-
ments, may be used to satisfy the re-
quirements of this section for a sepa-
rate document.
(c)
Maintenance of information.
Emer-
gency response information shall be
maintained as follows:
(1)
Carriers.
Each carrier who trans-
ports a hazardous material shall main-
tain the information specified in para-
graph (a) of this section and § 172.606 of
this part in the same manner as pre-
scribed for shipping papers, except that
the information must be maintained in
the same manner aboard aircraft as the
notification of pilot-in-command, and
aboard vessels in the same manner as
the dangerous cargo manifest. This in-
formation must be immediately acces-
sible to train crew personnel, drivers of
motor vehicles, flight crew members,
and bridge personnel on vessels for use
in the event of incidents involving haz-
ardous materials.
(2)
Facility operators.
Each operator of
a facility where a hazardous material
is received, stored or handled during
transportation, shall maintain the in-
formation required by paragraph (a) of
this section whenever the hazardous
material is present. This information
must be in a location that is imme-
diately accessible to facility personnel
in the event of an incident involving
the hazardous material.
[Amdt. 172–116, 54 FR 27146, June 27, 1989; 54
FR 28750, July 5, 1989, as amended by Amdt.
172–116, 55 FR 875, Jan. 10, 1990; Amdt. 172–151,
62 FR 1234, Jan. 8, 1997; 66 FR 45379, Aug. 28,
2001; 68 FR 75741, Dec. 31, 2003]
§ 172.604
Emergency response tele-
phone number.
(a) A person who offers a hazardous
material for transportation must pro-
vide a numeric emergency response
telephone number, including the area
code, for use in an emergency involving
the hazardous material. For telephone
numbers outside the United States, the
international access code or the ‘‘+’’
(plus) sign, country code, and city
code, as appropriate, that are needed to
complete the call must be included.
The telephone number must be—
(1) Monitored at all times the haz-
ardous material is in transportation,
including storage incidental to trans-
portation;
(2) The telephone number of a person
who is either knowledgeable of the haz-
ardous material being shipped and has
comprehensive emergency response and
incident mitigation information for
that material, or has immediate access
to a person who possesses such knowl-
edge and information. A telephone
number that requires a call back (such
as an answering service, answering ma-
chine, or beeper device) does not meet
the requirements of paragraph (a) of
this section; and
(3) Entered on a shipping paper, as
follows:
(i) Immediately following the de-
scription of the hazardous material re-
quired by subpart C of this part; or
(ii) Entered once on the shipping
paper in the manner prescribed in para-
graph (b) of this section in a promi-
nent, readily identifiable, and clearly
visible manner that allows the infor-
mation to be easily and quickly found,
such as by highlighting, use of a larger
font or a font that is a different color
from other text and information, or
otherwise setting the information
apart to provide for quick and easy rec-
ognition. The offeror may use one of
the methods prescribed in this para-
graph only if the telephone number ap-
plies to each hazardous material en-
tered on the shipping paper, and if it is
indicated that the telephone number is
for emergency response information
(for example: ‘‘EMERGENCY CON-
TACT: * * *’’).
(b) The telephone number required by
paragraph (a) of this section must be –
(1) The number of the person offering
the hazardous material for transpor-
tation when that person is also the
emergency response information pro-
vider (ERI provider). The name of the
person, or contract number or other
unique identifier assigned by an ERI
provider, identified with the emer-
gency response telephone number must