[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: 49CFR172.604]

[Page 415-416]
 
                        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.  172.604  Emergency response telephone number.

    (a) A person who offers a hazardous material for transportation must 
provide an emergency response telephone number, including the area code 
or international access code, for use in the event of an emergency 
involving the hazardous material. The telephone number must be--
    (1) Monitored at all times the hazardous material is in 
transportation, including storage incidental to transportation;
    (2) The telephone number of a person who is either knowledgeable of 
the hazardous 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 knowledge and 
information. A telephone number that requires a call back (such as an 
answering service, answering machine, 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 description of the hazardous material 
required by subpart C of this part; or
    (ii) Entered once on the shipping paper in a clearly visible 
location. This provision may be used only if the telephone number 
applies to each hazardous material entered on the shipping paper, and if 
it is indicated that the telephone number is for emergency response 
information (for example: ``EMERGENCY CONTACT: * * *).
    (b) The telephone number required by paragraph (a) of this section 
must be the number of the person offering the hazardous material for 
transportation or the number of an agency or organization capable of, 
and accepting responsibility for, providing the detailed information 
concerning the hazardous material. A person offering a hazardous 
material for transportation who lists the telephone number of an agency 
or organization shall ensure that agency or organization has received 
current information on the material, as required by paragraph (a)(2) of 
this section before it is offered for transportation.
    (c) The requirements of this section do not apply to--
    (1) Hazardous materials that are offered for transportation under 
the provisions applicable to limited quantities; and
    (2) Materials properly described under the following shipping names:


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Battery powered equipment
Battery powered vehicle
Carbon dioxide, solid
Castor bean
Castor flake
Castor meal
Castor pomace
Consumer commodity
Dry ice
Engines, internal combustion
Fish meal, stabilized
Fish scrap, stabilized
Refrigerating machine
Vehicle, flammable gas powered
Vehicle, flammable liquid powered
Wheelchair, electric

[Amdt. 172-116, 54 FR 27145, June 27, 1989, as amended at 55 FR 33713, 
Aug. 17, 1990; Amdt. 172-127, 59 FR 49133, Sept. 26, 1994; Amdt. 172-
149, 61 FR 27173, May 30, 1996; 65 FR 50460, Aug. 18, 2000; 65 FR 58628, 
Sept. 29, 2000; 66 FR 45182, Aug. 28, 2001; 69 FR 64473, Nov. 4, 2004]