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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
