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Hazardous Materials: Reducing Burdens by Allowing Continued Use of Department of Transportation Special Permit Packagings
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025. Comments closed on September 2, 2025.
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What the agency says
This NPRM proposes to revise the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to allow for the continued use of packagings authorized under a manufacturing special permit for duration of the useful life of the package. The current HMR provisions require an otherwise safe and usable package to be discontinued solely because the original special permit has expired or was not renewed.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-12081
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
- Agency
- Transportation Department; Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- Published
- July 1, 2025
- Comments due
- September 2, 2025
- Dates
- Comments must be received on or before September 2, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0094 (HM-268F)
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2137-AG08
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 49 CFR 173
- Topics
- Hazardous materials transportation; Packaging and containers; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 4
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