[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR172.600]

[Page 414]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
   CHAPTER I--PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, 
                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 172_HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TABLE, SPECIAL PROVISIONS, HAZARDOUS 
MATERIALS COMMUNICATIONS, EMERGENCY RESPONSE INFORMATION, AND 
 
                Subpart G_Emergency Response Information
 
Sec.  172.600  Applicability and general requirements.


    (a) Scope. Except as provided in paragraph (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 otherwise handled during any phase of transportation.
    (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 transportation, transfer, store or 
otherwise handle during transportation a hazardous material unless:
    (1) Emergency response information conforming to this subpart is 
immediately available for use at all times the hazardous material is 
present; and
    (2) Emergency response information, including the emergency response 
telephone number, required by this subpart is immediately available to 
any person who, as a representative of a Federal, State or local 
government agency, responds to an incident involving a hazardous 
material, or is conducting an investigation which involves a hazardous 
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 or a material properly classified as an 
ORM-D.

[Amdt. 172-116, 54 FR 27145, June 27, 1989; 54 FR 28750, July 5, 1989, 
as amended at 55 FR 33712, Aug. 17, 1990; 172-127, 59 FR 49133, Sept. 
26, 1994; Amdt. 172-149, 61 FR 27173, May 30, 1996]