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enhancing existing safety. 86 Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Hazardous Materials: Adoption of Certain Special Permits and Competent Authorities Into Regulations (RRR) This rulemaking amended the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to incorporate provisions contained in certain widely used or longstanding special permits and competent authorities that have established safety records. Incorporating such provisions into the HMR are intended to provide wider access to the regulatory flexibility offered in the special permits and competent authorities. The adoption of the provisions eliminated the need for numerous application and renewal requests. Key special permits included here (1) allow the transportation of ”Self-heating solid, organic n.o.s. (spent bleaching earth)” in bulk packaging; (2) allow the use of regulated medical waste shipping names and markings that differ from those prescribed in the HMR; (3) allow for the transportation of Class 9 solid coal pitch compounds in non-specification open top 5 10/29/2013 02/28/2014 03/18/2014 HM-233C; SB - N, SLT - N, IC - N; This final incorporated over 20 special permits and competent authority approvals into regulations. It provides an economic benefit to the hazardous materials transportation industry as a whole while maintaining an appropriate level of safety. We estimated that this final rule will reduce the paperwork burden identified under OMB Control No. 2137-0051 by $4,682 per year. PHMSA will also have nominal savings since it will no longer need to process, review, and maintain these 08/2011
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