Part 173: Shippers—general requirements for shipments and packagings

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Part	Regulation	Guidance
173.1 - 173.13	Subpart A—General
173.1	Purpose and scope.
173.2	Hazardous materials classes and index to hazard class definitions.
173.2a	Classification of a material having more than one hazard.
173.3	Packaging and exceptions.
173.4	Small quantity exceptions.
173.5	Agricultural operations.
173.5a	Oilfield service vehicles and mechanical displacement meter provers.
173.6	Materials of trade exceptions.
173.7	Government operations and materials.
173.8	Exceptions for non-specification packagings used in intrastate transportation.
173.9	Transport vehicles or freight containers containing lading which has been fumigated.
173.10	Tank car shipments.
173.12	Exceptions for shipment of waste materials.
173.13	Exceptions for class 3, divisions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, and classes 8 and 9 materials.
173.21 - 173.40	Subpart B—Preparation of hazardous materials for transportation
173.21	Forbidden materials and packages.
173.22	Shipper’s responsibility.
173.22a	Use of packagings authorized under special permits.
173.23	Previously authorized packaging.
173.24	General requirements for packagings and packages.
173.24a	Additional general requirements for non-bulk packagings and packages.
173.24b	Additional general requirements for bulk packagings.
173.25	Authorized packagings and overpacks.
173.26	Quantity limitations.
173.27	General requirements for transportation by aircraft.
173.28	Reuse, reconditioning and remanufacture of packagings.
173.29	Empty packagings.
173.30	Loading and unloading of transport vehicles.
173.31	Use of tank cars.
173.32	Requirements for the use of portable tanks.
173.33	Hazardous materials in cargo tank motor vehicles.
173.34	[Removed]
173.35	Hazardous materials in IBCs.
173.40	General packaging requirements for toxic materials packaged in cylinders.
173.50 - 173.63	Subpart C—Definitions, Classification and Packaging for Class 1
173.50	Class 1—definitions.
173.51	Authorization to offer and transport explosives.
173.52	Classification codes and compatibility groups of explosives.
173.53	Provisions for using old classifications of explosives.
173.54	Forbidden explosives.
173.56	New explosives—definition and procedures for classification and approval.
173.57	Acceptance criteria for new explosives.
173.58	Assignment of class and division for new explosives.
173.59	Description of terms for explosives.
173.60	General packaging requirements for explosives.
173.61	Mixed packaging requirements.
173.62	Specific packaging requirements for explosives.
173.63	Packaging exceptions.
173.115 - 173.156	Subpart D—Definitions classification, packing group assignments and exceptions for hazardous materials other than class 1 and class 7
173.115	Class 2, Divisions 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 — Definitions.
173.116	Class 2—Assignment of hazard zone.
173.120	Class 3—Definitions.
173.121	Class 3—Assignment of packing group.
173.124	Class 4, Divisions 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3— Definitions.
173.125	Class 4 — Assignment of packing group.
173.127	Class 5, Division 5.1 — Definition and assignment of packing groups.
173.128	Class 5, Division 5.2 — Definitions and types.
173.129	Class 5, Division 5.2 — Assignment of packing group.
173.132	Class 6, Division 6.1 — Definitions.
173.133	Assignment of packing group and hazard zones for Division 6.1 materials.
173.134	Class 6, Division 6.2—Definitions and exceptions.
173.136	Class 8—Definitions.
173.137	Class 8—Assignment of packing group.
173.140	Class 9—Definitions.
173.141	Class 9—Assignment of packing group.
173.144	Other regulated materials (ORM)—definitions.
173.145	Other regulated materials—assignment of packing group.
173.150	Exceptions for Class 3 (flammable and combustible liquids).
173.151	Exceptions for Class 4.
173.152	Exceptions for Division 5.1 (oxidizers) and Division 5.2 (organic peroxides).
173.153	Exceptions for Division 6.1 (poisonous materials).
173.154	Exceptions for Class 8 (corrosive materials).
173.155	Exceptions for Class 9 (miscellaneous hazardous materials).
173.156	Exceptions for ORM materials.
173.158 - 173.230	Subpart E—Non-bulk packaging for hazardous materials other than class 1 and class 7
173.158	Nitric acid.
173.159	Batteries, wet.
173.160	Bombs, smoke, non-explosive (corrosive).
173.161	Chemical kits and first aid kits.
173.162	Gallium.
173.163	Hydrogen fluoride.
173.164	Mercury (metallic and articles containing mercury).
173.166	Air bag inflators, air bag modules and seat-belt pretensioners.
173.168	Chemical oxygen generators.
173.170	Black powder for small arms.
173.171	Smokeless powder for small arms.
173.172	Aircraft hydraulic power unit fuel tank.
173.173	Paint, paint-related material, adhesives, ink and resins.
173.174	Refrigerating machines.
173.181	Pyrophoric materials (liquids).
173.182	Barium azide—50 percent or more water wet.
173.183	Nitrocellulose base film.
173.184	Highway or rail fusee.
173.185	Lithium cells and betteries.
173.186	Matches.
173.187	Pyrophoric solids, metals or alloys, n.o.s.
173.188	White or yellow phosphorus.
173.189	Batteries containing sodium or cells containing sodium.
173.192	Packaging for certain toxic gases in Hazard Zone A.
173.193	Bromoacetone, methyl bromide, chloropicrin and methyl bromide or methyl chloride mixtures, etc.
173.194	Gas identification sets.
173.195	Hydrogen cyanide, anhydrous, stabilized (hydrocyanic acid, aqueous solution).
173.196	Category A infectious substances.
173.197	Regulated medical waste.
173.198	Nickel carbonyl.
173.199	Category B infectious substances.
173.201	Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in packing group I.
173.202	Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in packing group II.
173.203	Non-bulk packagings for liquid hazardous materials in packing group III.
173.204	Non-bulk, non-specification packagings for certain hazardous materials.
173.205	Specification cylinders for liquid hazardous materials.
173.211	Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in packing group I.
173.212	Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in packing group II.
173.213	Non-bulk packagings for solid hazardous materials in packing group III.
173.214	Packagings which require approval by the Associate Administrator.
173.216	Asbestos, blue, brown or white.
173.217	Carbon dioxide, solid (dry ice).
173.218	Fish meal or fish scrap.
173.219	Life-saving appliances.
173.220	Internal combustion engines, self-propelled vehicles, mechanical equipment containing internal combustion engines, and battery powered vehicles or equipment.
173.221	Polymeric beads, expandable and plastic molding compound.
173.222	Dangerous goods in machinery or apparatus.
173.223	Musk xylene.
173.224	Packaging and control and emergency temperatures for self-reactive materials.
173.225	Packaging requirements and other provisions for organic peroxides.
173.226	Materials poisonous by inhalation, Division 6.1, Packing Group I, Hazard Zone A.
173.227	Materials poisonous by inhalation, Division 6.1, Packing Group I, Hazard Zone B.
173.228	Bromine pentafluoride or bromine trifluoride.
173.229	Chloric acid solution or chlorine dioxide hydrate, frozen.
173.230	Fuel cell cartridges containing flammable liquids.
173.240 - 173.249	Subpart F—Bulk packaging for hazardous materials other than Class 1 and Class 7
173.240	Bulk packaging for certain low hazard solid materials.
173.241	Bulk packagings for certain low hazard liquid and solid materials.
173.242	Bulk packagings for certain medium hazard liquids and solids, including solids with dual hazards.
173.243	Bulk packaging for certain high hazard liquids and dual hazard materials which pose a moderate hazard.
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).
173.245	Bulk packaging for extremely hazardous materials such as poisonous gases (Division 2.3).
173.247	Bulk packaging for certain elevated temperature materials.
173.249	Bromine.
173.300 - 173.340	Subpart G—Gases; preparation and packaging
173.300	[Reserved]
173.301	General requirements for shipment of compressed gases and other hazardous materials in cylinders, UN pressure receptacles and spherical pressure vessels.
173.301a	Additional general requirements for shipment of specification cylinders.
173.301b	Additional general requirements for shipment of UN pressure receptacles.
173.302	Filling of cylinders with nonliquefied (permanent) compressed gases.
173.302a	Additional requirements for shipment of nonliquefied (permanent) compressed gases in specification cylinders.
173.302b	Additional requirements for shipment of non-liquefied (permanent) compressed gases in UN pressure receptacles.
173.303	Charging of cylinders with compressed gas in solution (acetylene).
173.304	Filling of cylinders with liquefied compressed gases.
173.304a	Additional requirements for shipment of liquefied compressed gases in specification cylinders.
173.304b	Additional requirements for shipment of liquefied compressed gases in UN pressure receptacles.
173.305	Charging of cylinders with a mixture of compressed gas and other material.
173.306	Limited quantities of compressed gases.
173.307	Exceptions for compressed gases.
173.308	Lighters.
173.309	Fire extinguishers.
173.312	Requirements for shipment of MEGCs.
173.313	UN portable tank table for liquefied compressed gases.
173.314	Compressed gases in tank cars and multi-unit tank cars.
173.315	Compressed gases in cargo tanks and portable tanks.
173.316	Cryogenic liquids in cylinders.
173.318	Cryogenic liquids in cargo tanks.
173.319	Cryogenic liquids in tank cars.
173.320	Cryogenic liquids; exceptions.
173.321	Ethylamine.
173.322	Ethyl chloride.
173.323	Ethylene oxide.
173.334	Organic phosphates mixed with compressed gas.
173.335	[Reserved]
173.336	Nitrogen dioxide, liquefied, or dinitrogen tetroxide, liquefied.
173.337	Nitric oxide.
173.338	Tungsten hexafluoride.
173.340	Tear gas devices.
Subpart H	Subpart H—[Reserved]
173.401 - 173.477	Subpart I—Class 7 (radioactive) materials
173.401	Scope.
173.403	Definitions.
173.410	General design requirements.
173.411	Industrial packagings.
173.412	Additional design requirements for Type A packages.
173.413	Requirements for Type B packages.
173.415	Authorized Type A packages.
173.416	Authorized Type B packages.
173.417	Authorized fissile materials packages.
173.418	Authorized packages — pyrophoric Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.419	Authorized packages — oxidizing Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.420	Uranium hexafluoride (fissile, fissile excepted and non-fissile).
173.421	Excepted packages for limited quantities of Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.422	Additional requirements for excepted packages containing Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.423	Requirements for multiple hazard limited quantity Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.424	Excepted packages for radioactive instruments and articles.
173.425	Table of activity limits — excepted quantities and articles.
173.426	Excepted packages for articles containing natural uranium or thorium.
173.427	Transport requirements for low specific activity (LSA) Class 7 (radioactive) materials and surface contaminated objects (SCO).
173.428	Empty Class 7 (radioactive) materials packaging.
173.431	Activity limits for Type A and Type B packages.
173.433	Requirements for determining basic radio-nuclide values, and for the listing of radionuclides on shipping papers and labels.
173.434	Activity-mass relationships for uranium and natural thorium.
173.435	Table of A1 and A2 values for radionuclides.
173.436	Exempt material activity concentrations and exempt consignment activity limits for radionuclides.
173.441	Radiation level limitations and exclusive use provisions.
173.442	Thermal limitations.
173.443	Contamination control.
173.447	Storage incident to transportation — general requirements.
173.448	General transportation requirements.
173.453	Fissile materials — exceptions.
173.457	Transportation of fissile material packages — specific requirements.
173.459	Mixing of fissile material packages with non-fissile or fissile-excepted material packages.
173.461	Demonstration of compliance with tests.
173.462	Preparation of specimens for testing.
173.465	Type A packaging tests.
173.466	Additional tests for Type A packagings designed for liquids and gases.
173.467	Tests for demonstrating the ability of Type B and fissile materials packagings to withstand accident conditions in transportation.
173.468	Test for LSA–III material.
173.469	Tests for special form Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.471	Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved packages.
173.472	Requirements for exporting DOT specification Type B and fissile packages.
173.473	Requirements for foreign-made packages.
173.474	Quality control for construction of packaging.
173.475	Quality control requirements prior to each shipment of Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.476	Approval of special form Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
173.477	Approval of packagings containing greater than 0.1 kg of non-fissile or fissile-excepted uranium hexafluoride.
Subparts J–O	Subparts J–O—[Reserved]
Appendix A	Appendix A to Part 173 [Reserved]
Appendix B	Appendix B to Part 173—Procedure for testing chemical compatibility and rate of permeation in plastic packaging and receptacles
Appendix C	Appendix C to Part 173—Procedure for base-level vibration testing
Appendix D	Appendix D to Part 173—Test methods for dynamite (explosive, blasting, type A)
Appendix G	Appendixes E—G to Part 173 [Reserved]
Appendix H	Appendix H to Part 173—Method of testing for sustained combustibility