Section 172.600

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(b) In addition to conformance with
Section 172.519, the background on the CLASS
9 placard must be white with seven
black vertical stripes on the top half
extending from the top of the placard
to one inch above the horizontal centerline. The black vertical stripes must
be spaced so that, visually, they appear
equal in width to the six white spaces
between them. The space below the
vertical lines must be white with the
class number 9 underlined and centered
at the bottom.
[Amdt. 172-123, 56 FR 66264, Dec. 20, 1991, as
amended at 57 FR 45460, Oct. 1, 1992]

Subpart G - Emergency Response
Information
Section 172.600 Applicability and general requirements.
(a) Scope. Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, this subpart
prescribes requirements for providing
and maintaining emergency response
information during transportation and
at facilities where hazardous materials
are loaded for transportation, stored
incidental to transportation or otherwise handled during any phase of transportation.
(b) Applicability. This subpart applies
to persons who offer for transportation,
accept for transportation, transfer or
otherwise handle hazardous materials
during transportation.
(c) General requirements. No person to
whom this subpart applies may offer
for transportation, accept for transportation, transfer, store or otherwise
handle during transportation a hazardous material unless:
(1) Emergency response information
conforming to this subpart is immediately available for use at all times
the hazardous material is present; and
(2) Emergency response information,
including the emergency response telephone number, required by this subpart
is immediately available to any person
who, as a representative of a Federal,
State or local government agency, responds to an incident involving a hazardous material, or is conducting an
investigation which involves a hazardous material.
(d) Exceptions. The requirements of
this subpart do not apply to hazardous
material which is excepted from the

shipping paper requirements of this
subchapter or a material properly classified as an ORM-D.
[Amdt. 172-116, 54 FR 27145, June 27, 1989; 54
FR 28750, July 5, 1989, as amended at 55 FR
33712, Aug. 17, 1990; Amdt. 172-127, 59 FR
49133, Sept. 26, 1994; Amdt. 172-149, 61 FR
27173, May 30, 1996]

Section 172.602 Emergency
mation.

response

(a) Information required. For purposes
of this subpart, the term  - emergency
response information -  means information that can be used in the mitigation
of an incident involving hazardous materials and, as a minimum, must contain the following information:
(1) The basic description and technical name of the hazardous material
as required by SectionSection 172.202 and 172.203(k),
the ICAO Technical Instructions, the
IMDG Code, or the TDG Regulations,
as appropriate (IBR, see Section 171.7 of this
subchapter);
(2) Immediate hazards to health;
(3) Risks of fire or explosion;
(4) Immediate precautions to be
taken in the event of an accident or incident;
(5) Immediate methods for handling
fires;
(6) Initial methods for handling spills
or leaks in the absence of fire; and
(7) Preliminary first aid measures.
(b) Form of information. The information required for a hazardous material
by paragraph (a) of this section must
be:
(1) Printed legibly in English;
(2) Available for use away from the
package containing the hazardous material; and
(3) Presented - 
(i) On a shipping paper;
(ii) In a document, other than a shipping paper, that includes both the basic
description and technical name of the
hazardous material as required by
SectionSection 172.202 and 172.203(k), the ICAO Technical Instructions, the IMDG Code, or
the TDG Regulations, as appropriate,
and the emergency response information required by this subpart (e.g., a
material safety data sheet); or
(iii) Related to the information on a
shipping paper, a written notification
to pilot-in-command, or a dangerous
cargo manifest, in a separate document

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