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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
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 | 173.1 | Purpose and scope. |
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| 173.2 | Hazardous materials classes and index to hazard class definitions. |
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| 173.2a | Classification of a material having more than one hazard. |
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| 173.3 | Packaging and exceptions. |
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| 173.4 | Small quantity exceptions. |
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| 173.5 | Agricultural operations. |
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| 173.5a | Oilfield service vehicles. |
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| 173.6 | Materials of trade exceptions. |
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| 173.7 | U.S. Government material. |
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| 173.8 | Exceptions for non-specification packagings used in intrastate transportation. |
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| 173.9 | Transport vehicles or freight containers containing lading which has been fumigated. |
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| 173.10 | Tank car shipments. |
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| 173.12 | Exceptions for shipment of waste materials. |
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| 173.13 | Exceptions for Class 3, Divisions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, and Classes 8 and 9 materials. |
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| 173.21 | Forbidden materials and packages. |
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| 173.22 | Shipper's responsibility. |
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| 173.22a | Use of packagings authorized under exemptions. |
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| 173.23 | Previously authorized packaging. |
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| 173.24 | General requirements for packagings and packages. |
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| 173.24a | Additional general requirements for non-bulk packagings and packages. |
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| 173.24b | Additional general requirements for bulk packagings. |
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| 173.25 | Authorized packagings and overpacks. |
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| 173.26 | Quantity limitations. |
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| 173.27 | General requirements for transportation by aircraft. |
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| 173.28 | Reuse, reconditioning and remanufacture of packagings. |
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| 173.29 | Empty packagings. |
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| 173.30 | Loading and unloading of transport vehicles. |
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| 173.30 | Loading and unloading of transport vehicles. |
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| 173.31 | Use of tank cars. |
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| 173.31 | Use of tank cars. |
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| 173.32 | Requirements for the use of portable tanks. |
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| 173.33 | Hazardous materials in cargo tank motor vehicles. |
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| 173.35 | Hazardous materials in IBCs. |
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| 173.40 | General packaging requirements for toxic materials packaged in cylinders. |
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| 173.50 | Class 1--Definitions. |
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| 173.51 | Authorization to offer and transport explosives. |
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| 173.52 | Classification codes and compatibility groups of explosives. |
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| 173.53 | Provisions for using old classifications of explosives. |
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| 173.54 | Forbidden explosives. |
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| 173.56 | New explosives--definition and procedures for classification and approval. |
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| 173.57 | Acceptance criteria for new explosives. |
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| 173.58 | Assignment of class and division for new explosives. |
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| 173.59 | Description of terms for explosives. |
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| 173.60 | General packaging requirements for explosives. |
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| 173.61 | Mixed packaging requirements. |
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| 173.62 | Specific packaging requirements for explosives. |
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| 173.63 | Packaging exceptions. |
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| 173.115 | Class 2, Divisions 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3--Definitions. |
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| 173.116 | Class 2--Assignment of hazard zone. |
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| 173.120 | Class 3--Definitions. |
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| 173.121 | Class 3--Assignment of packing group. |
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| 173.124 | Class 4, Divisions 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3--Definitions. |
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| 173.125 | Class 4--Assignment of packing group. |
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| 173.127 | Class 5, Division 5.1--Definition and assignment of packing groups. |
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| 173.128 | Class 5, Division 5.2--Definitions and types. |
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| 173.129 | Class 5, Division 5.2--Assignment of packing group. |
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| 173.132 | Class 6, Division 6.1--Definitions. |
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| 173.133 | Assignment of packing group and hazard zones for Division 6.1 materials. |
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| 173.134 | Class 6, Division 6.2--Definitions and exceptions. |
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| 173.136 | Class 8--Definitions. |
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| 173.137 | Class 8--Assignment of packing group. |
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| 173.140 | Class 9--Definitions. |
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| 173.141 | Class 9--Assignment of packing group. |
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| 173.144 | Other Regulated Materials (ORM)--Definitions. |
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| 173.145 | Other Regulated Materials--Assignment of packing group. |
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| 173.150 | Exceptions for Class 3 (flammable) and combustible liquids. |
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| 173.151 | Exceptions for Class 4. |
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| 173.152 | Exceptions for Division 5.1 (oxidizers) and Division 5.2 (organic peroxides). |
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| 173.153 | Exceptions for Division 6.1 (poisonous materials). |
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| 173.154 | Exceptions for Class 8 (corrosive materials). |
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| 173.155 | Exceptions for Class 9 (miscellaneous hazardous materials). |
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| 173.156 | Exceptions for ORM materials. |
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| 173.158 | Nitric acid. |
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| 173.159 | Batteries, wet. |
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| 173.160 | Bombs, smoke, non-explosive (corrosive). |
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| 173.161 | Chemical kits and first aid kits. |
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| 173.162 | Gallium. |
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| 173.163 | Hydrogen fluoride. |
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| 173.164 | Mercury (metallic and articles containing mercury). |
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| 173.166 | Air bag inflators, air bag modules and seat-belt pretensioners. |
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| 173.170 | Black powder for small arms. |
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| 173.171 | Smokeless powder for small arms. |
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| 173.172 | Aircraft hydraulic power unit fuel tank. |
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| 173.173 | Paint, paint-related material, adhesives, ink and resins. |
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| 173.174 | Refrigerating machines. |
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| 173.181 | Pyrophoric materials (liquids). |
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| 173.182 | Barium azide--50 percent or more water wet. |
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| 173.183 | Nitrocellulose base film. |
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| 173.184 | Highway or rail fusee. |
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| 173.185 | Lithium batteries and cells. |
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| 173.186 | Matches. |
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| 173.187 | Pyrophoric solids, metals or alloys, n.o.s. |
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| 173.188 | White or yellow phosphorus. |
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| 173.189 | Batteries containing sodium or cells containing sodium. |
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| 173.192 | Packaging for certain toxic gases in Hazard Zone A. |
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| 173.193 | Bromoacetone, methyl bromide, chloropicrin and methyl bromide or methyl chloride mixtures, etc. |
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| 173.194 | Gas identification sets. |
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| 173.195 | Hydrogen cyanide, anhydrous, stabilized (hydrocyanic acid, aqueous solution). |
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| 173.196 | Infectious substances. |
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| 173.197 | Regulated medical waste. |
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| 173.198 | Nickel carbonyl. |
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| 173.199 | Diagnostic specimens and used health care products. |
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| 173.201 | Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in Packing Group I. |
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| 173.202 | Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in Packing Group II. |
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| 173.203 | Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in Packing Group III. |
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| 173.204 | Non-bulk, non-specification packagings for certain hazardous materials. |
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| 173.205 | Specification cylinders for liquid hazardous materials. |
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| 173.211 | Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in Packing Group I. |
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| 173.212 | Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in Packing Group II. |
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| 173.213 | Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in Packing Group III. |
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| 173.214 | Packagings which require approval by the Associate Administrator. |
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| 173.216 | Asbestos, blue, brown or white. |
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| 173.217 | Carbon dioxide, solid (dry ice). |
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| 173.218 | Fish meal or fish scrap. |
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| 173.219 | Life-saving appliances. |
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| 173.220 | Internal combustion engines, self-propelled vehicles, mechanical equipment containing internal combustion engines, and battery powered vehicles or equipment. |
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| 173.221 | Polymeric beads, expandable and Plastic molding compound. |
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| 173.222 | Dangerous goods in equipment, machinery or apparatus. |
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| 173.223 | Musk xylene. |
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| 173.224 | Packaging and control and emergency temperatures for self-reactive materials. |
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| 173.225 | Packaging requirements and other provisions for organic peroxides. |
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| 173.226 | Materials poisonous by inhalation, Division 6.1, Packing Group I, Hazard Zone A. |
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| 173.227 | Materials poisonous by inhalation, Division 6.1, Packing Group I, Hazard Zone B. |
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| 173.228 | Bromine pentafluoride or bromine trifluoride. |
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| 173.229 | Chloric acid solution or chlorine dioxide hydrate, frozen. |
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| 173.240 | Bulk packaging for certain low hazard solid materials. |
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| 173.241 | Bulk packagings for certain low hazard liquid and solid materials. |
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| 173.242 | Bulk packagings for certain medium hazard liquids and solids, including solids with dual hazards. |
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| 173.243 | Bulk packaging for certain high hazard liquids and dual hazard materials which pose a moderate hazard. |
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| 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). |
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| 173.245 | Bulk packaging for extremely hazardous materials such as poisonous gases (Division 2.3). |
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| 173.247 | Bulk packaging for certain elevated temperature materials. |
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| 173.249 | Bromine. |
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| 173.301 | General requirements for shipment of compressed gases in cylinders and spherical pressure vessels. |
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| 173.301a | Additional general requirements for shipment of specification cylinders. |
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| 173.302 | Filling of cylinders with nonliquefied (permanent) compressed gases. |
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| 173.302a | Additional requirements for shipment of nonliquefied (permanent) compressed gases in specification cylinders. |
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| 173.303 | Charging of cylinders with compressed gas in solution (acetylene). |
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| 173.304 | Filling of cylinders with liquefied compressed gases. |
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| 173.304a | Additional requirements for shipment of liquefied compressed gases in specification cylinders. |
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| 173.305 | Charging of cylinders with a mixture of compressed gas and other material. |
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| 173.306 | Limited quantities of compressed gases. |
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| 173.307 | Exceptions for compressed gases. |
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| 173.308 | Cigarette lighter or other similar device charged with fuel. |
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| 173.309 | Fire extinguishers. |
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| 173.314 | Compressed gases in tank cars and multi-unit tank cars. |
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| 173.315 | Compressed gases in cargo tanks and portable tanks. |
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| 173.316 | Cryogenic liquids in cylinders. |
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| 173.318 | Cryogenic liquids in cargo tanks. |
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| 173.319 | Cryogenic liquids in tank cars. |
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| 173.320 | Cryogenic liquids; exceptions. |
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| 173.321 | Ethylamine. |
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| 173.322 | Ethyl chloride. |
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| 173.323 | Ethylene oxide. |
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| 173.334 | Organic phosphates mixed with compressed gas. |
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| 173.335 | Gas generator assemblies. |
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| 173.336 | Nitrogen dioxide, liquefied, or dinitrogen tetroxide, liquefied. |
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| 173.337 | Nitric oxide. |
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| 173.338 | Tungsten hexafluoride. |
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| 173.340 | Tear gas devices. |
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| 173.401 | Scope. |
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| 173.403 | Definitions. |
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| 173.410 | General design requirements. |
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| 173.411 | Industrial packagings. |
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| 173.412 | Additional design requirements for Type A packages. |
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| 173.413 | Requirements for Type B packages. |
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| 173.415 | Authorized Type A packages. |
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| 173.416 | Authorized Type B packages. |
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| 173.417 | Authorized fissile materials packages. |
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| 173.418 | Authorized packages--pyrophoric Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.419 | Authorized packages--oxidizing Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.420 | Uranium hexafluoride (fissile, fissile excepted and non-fissile). |
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| 173.421 | Excepted packages for limited quantities of Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.422 | Additional requirements for excepted packages containing Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.423 | Requirements for multiple hazard limited quantity Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.424 | Excepted packages for radioactive instruments and articles. |
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| 173.425 | Table of activity limits--excepted quantities and articles. |
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| 173.426 | Excepted packages for articles containing natural uranium or thorium. |
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| 173.427 | Transport requirements for low specific activity (LSA) Class 7 (radioactive) materials and surface contaminated objects (SCO). |
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| 173.428 | Empty Class 7 (radioactive) materials packaging. |
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| 173.431 | Activity limits for Type A and Type B packages. |
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| 173.433 | Requirements for determining basic radionuclide values, and for the listing of radionuclides on shipping papers and labels. |
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| 173.434 | Activity-mass relationships for uranium and natural thorium. |
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| 173.435 | Table of A1 and A2 values for radionuclides. |
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| 173.436 | Exempt material activity concentrations and exempt consignment activity limits for radionuclides. |
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| 173.441 | Radiation level limitations and exclusive use provisions. |
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| 173.442 | Thermal limitations. |
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| 173.443 | Contamination control. |
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| 173.447 | Storage incident to transportation--general requirements. |
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| 173.448 | General transportation requirements. |
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| 173.453 | Fissile materials--exceptions. |
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| 173.457 | Transportation of fissile material packages--specific requirements. |
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| 173.459 | Mixing of fissile material packages with non-fissile or fissile-excepted material packages. |
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| 173.461 | Demonstration of compliance with tests. |
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| 173.462 | Preparation of specimens for testing. |
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| 173.465 | Type A packaging tests. |
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| 173.466 | Additional tests for Type A packagings designed for liquids and gases. |
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| 173.467 | Tests for demonstrating the ability of Type B and fissile materials packagings to withstand accident conditions in transportation. |
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| 173.468 | Test for LSA-III material. |
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| 173.469 | Tests for special form Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.471 | Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved packages. |
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| 173.472 | Requirements for exporting DOT Specification Type B and fissile packages. |
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| 173.473 | Requirements for foreign-made packages. |
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| 173.474 | Quality control for construction of packaging. |
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| 173.475 | Quality control requirements prior to each shipment of Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.476 | Approval of special form Class 7 (radioactive) materials. |
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| 173.477 | Approval of packagings containing greater than 0.1 kg of non-fissile or fissile-excepted uranium hexafluoride. |
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