US EPA published its Interim final rule (IFR) Safe Management of Recalled Airbags to the Federal Register on Friday, November 30.
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The US DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has raised civil penalties for Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) violations, including violations related to DOT hazmat training, to keep pace with inflation.
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US DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed a harmonization rulemaking (HM 215-O) to conform the Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR 171–180) to international standards.
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Update 11/30/18: US EPA published its Safe Management of Recalled Airbags interim Final Rule to the Federal Register today. The new rule conditionally exempts airbag wastes, i.e., recalled airbag inflators and airbag modules, from the RCRA hazardous waste management requirements.
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As proposed, EPA’s new pharmaceutical hazardous waste regulations will revise the rules for accumulating, counting, labeling, shipping, and disposing of these hazardous wastes. In other words, healthcare facilities should expect major changes to the way they manage pharmaceutical hazardous waste on site.
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In response to petitions from hazmat shippers, industry groups, and stakeholders, US DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a Final Rule on November 7, 2018 to update, clarify, streamline, and provide new relief from certain hazmat rules.
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FedEx recently posted a note to customers regarding its revised operator variations published in the 60th Edition IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR). Important updates include FedEx dropping the V-rated packaging requirement for Division 6.1 materials, and the correction of an error related to lithium batteries in the printed version of the 60th Edition iATA DGR.
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How do we know when DOT will allow us to reuse a package, e.g., a drum? What are the requirements for reusing packaging, and where can shippers find them?
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In late 2017, the state of Ohio added three new types of Universal waste to its existing universal waste requirements. Read on to find out which common waste items may now be managed as universal waste in the Buckeye State.
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