• Date: June 14, 2011
• Source: www.hss.energy.gov

The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) regulates the marking, manifesting, labeling, packaging, placarding, and spill reporting provisions for hazardous materials in transit.

Under the law, shippers must certify that they are in compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations. When Environmental Protection Agency- regulated hazardous wastes are shipped, they must be accompanied by a uniform hazardous waste manifest.

During the reauthorization, the Act was amended to settle the issue of Federal pre-emption of State hazardous materials laws by delineating areas of: 

• Exclusive Federal jurisdiction
• Joint Federal and State jurisdiction
• Areas open to State and local jurisdiction
• The hazardous materials regulations initially applied only to interstate transit
• In 1997, the hazardous materials regulations were extended to cover intrastate transit.

Objectives

Terminal Objective Given the Environmental Laws and Regulations course manual as a reference, you will be able to: 

• Explain how the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) affects the DOE and its transportation and shipping of hazardous wastes and materials. 

Enabling Objectives 

• Describe the requirements set forth in DOT Dockets HM-126F and HM-181.
• List the HMTA provisions presented in 49 CFR.

ComplianceOnline Webinars Related Hazardous Materials

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