[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR172.326]



[Page 367-368]

 

                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

   CHAPTER I--PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, 

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 172_HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TABLE, SPECIAL PROVISIONS, HAZARDOUS 

MATERIALS COMMUNICATIONS, EMERGENCY RESPONSE INFORMATION, AND TRAINING 

REQUIREMENTS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart D_Marking

 

Sec. 172.326  Portable tanks.



    (a) Shipping name. No person may offer for transportation or 

transport a portable tank containing a hazardous material unless it is 

legibly marked on two opposing sides with the proper shipping name 

specified for the material in the Sec. 172.101 table.

    (b) Owner's name. The name of the owner or of the lessee, if 

applicable, must be displayed on a portable tank that contains a 

hazardous material.

    (c) Identification numbers. (1) If the identification number 

markings required by Sec. 172.302(a) are not visible, a transport 

vehicle or freight container used to transport a portable tank 

containing a hazardous material must be marked on each side and each end 

as required by Sec. 172.332 with the identification number specified 

for the material in the Sec. 172.101 table.

    (2) Each person who offers a portable tank containing a hazardous 

material to a motor carrier, for transportation in a transport vehicle 

or freight container, shall provide the motor carrier with the required 

identification numbers on placards, orange panels, or the white square-

on-point configuration, as appropriate, for each side and each end of 

the transport vehicle or freight container from which identification 

numbers on the portable tank are not visible.



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    (d) NON-ODORIZED marking on portable tanks containing LPG. After 

September 30, 2006, no person may offer for transportation or transport 

a portable tank containing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) that is 

unodorized as authorized in Sec. 173.315(b)(1) unless it is legibly 

marked NON-ODORIZED or NOT ODORIZED on two opposing sides near the 

marked proper shipping name required by paragraph (a) of this section, 

or near the placards.



[Amdt. 172-123, 55 FR 52592, Dec. 21, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 66255, 

Dec. 20, 1991; 69 FR 64471, Nov. 4, 2004]