[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 49CFR]

[Page 360-361]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
 CHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                             TRANSPORTATION
 
                           Subpart E_Labeling
 
Sec.  172.400  General labeling requirements.


    (a) Except as specified in Sec.  172.400a, each person who offers 
for transportation or transports a hazardous material in any of the 
following packages or containment devices, shall label the package or 
containment device with labels specified for the material in the Sec.  
172.101 table and in this subpart:
    (1) A non-bulk package;
    (2) A bulk packaging, other than a cargo tank, portable tank, or 
tank car, with a volumetric capacity of less than 18 m3 (640 
cubic feet), unless placarded in accordance with subpart F of this part;
    (3) A portable tank of less than 3785 L (1000 gallons) capacity, 
unless placarded in accordance with subpart F of this part;
    (4) A DOT Specification 106 or 110 multi-unit tank car tank, unless 
placarded in accordance with subpart F of this part; and
    (5) An overpack, freight container or unit load device, of less than 
18 m3 (640 cubic feet), which contains a package for which 
labels are required, unless placarded or marked in accordance with Sec.  
172.512 of this part.
    (b) Labeling is required for a hazardous material which meets one or 
more hazard class definitions, in accordance with column 6 of the Sec.  
172.101 table and the following table:

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                                                                Label
                                                              design or
     Hazard class or division             Label name           section
                                                              reference
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1.1..............................  EXPLOSIVES 1.1..........      172.411
1.2..............................  EXPLOSIVES 1.2..........      172.411
1.3..............................  EXPLOSIVES 1.3..........      172.411
1.4..............................  EXPLOSIVES 1.4..........      172.411
1.5..............................  EXPLOSIVES 1.5..........      172.411
1.6..............................  EXPLOSIVES 1.6..........      172.411
2.1..............................  FLAMMABLE GAS...........      172.417
2.2..............................  NONFLAMMABLE GAS........      172.415
2.3..............................  POISON GAS..............      172.416
3 (flammable liquid) Combustible   FLAMMABLE LIQUID (none).      172.419
 liquid.
4.1..............................  FLAMMABLE SOLID.........      172.420
4.2..............................  SPONTANEOUSLY                 172.422
                                    COMBUSTIBLE.
4.3..............................  DANGEROUS WHEN WET......      172.423
5.1..............................  OXIDIZER................      172.426
5.2..............................  ORGANIC PEROXIDE........      172.427
6.1 (inhalation hazard, Zone A or  POISON INHALATION HAZARD      172.429
 B).
6.1 (other than inhalation         POISON..................      172.430
 hazard, Zone A or B).
6.2..............................  INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCE \1\      172.432
7 (see Sec.   172.403)...........  RADIOACTIVE WHITE-I.....      172.436
7................................  RADIOACTIVE YELLOW-II...      172.438
7................................  RADIOACTIVE YELLOW-III..      172.440

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7 (empty packages, see Sec.        EMPTY...................      172.450
 173.428 of this subchapter).
8................................  CORROSIVE...............      172.442
9................................  CLASS 9.................      172.446
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\1\ The ETIOLOGIC AGENT label specified in regulations of the Department
  of Health and Human Services at 42 CFR 72.3 may apply to packages of
  infectious substances.


[Amdt. 172-123, 55 FR 52593, Dec. 21, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 66255, 
Dec. 20, 1991; Amdt. 172-151, 62 FR 1228, Jan. 8, 1997; 64 FR 10776, 
Mar. 5, 1999; 64 FR 51918, Sept. 27, 1999]