RE: Type A Certified Drums

["Jim Ogden" <jogden@brc1.tdh.state.tx.us>]

Radsafer's:

My copy of the Test and Evaluation Document For DOT Specification 7A 
Type A Packaging, listed a last modified date of September 24, 1996.

It is available on the web at:

http://www.hanford.gov/pss/t&p/dot7a/pdot7a.htm


NOTE:  This is a very large document so if you're going to make a 
copy be prepared to take some time.





Date:          Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:33:48 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-to:      radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
From:          "Pickett, Bruce D" <Bruce.Pickett@PSS.Boeing.com>
To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Subject:       RE: Type A Certified Drums

As of September 1995, new DOT requirements were put into place requiring
vibration testing of Type A packages in addition to the already existing
tests. Unless the document "Test Evaluation Document for DOT
Specification 7A Type A Packaging" has been updated since then, it does
not have vibration test results and therefore cannot be used to
completely fulfill the requirements for package certification test
reports. It could be used in part, as long as the shipper has
supplementary documentation for the vibration testing.

Bruce Pickett
The Boeing Company
Seattle, WA
bruce.d.picketta@boeing.com

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> From: 	larsongr@ornl.gov[SMTP:larsongr@ornl.gov]
> Sent: 	Friday, October 17, 1997 4:34 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Type A Certified Drums
> 
> Denny,
> 
> WHC-EP-0558 titled, Test and Evaluation Document for DOT Specification
> 7A
> Type A Packaging, prepared for the DOE by Westinghouse Hanford,
> documents
> performance testing for standard types of packaging to qualify as Type
> A
> packaging.  This document states,
> 
> "The specification packaging data contained in this document will
> serve to
> meet the requirements of 49 CFR 173.415(a) for "... documentation of
> tests..." when the packagings are used as prescribed herein."
> 
> Application/reference to this document has been used to develop the
> 'certification statement' that has been kept on file by the shipper to
> demonstrate the packaging qualifies as DOT Type A.  The 'certification
> statement' is verification that the packaging and its associated
> contents
> meet the requirements stipulated in the appropriate packaging testing
> specified within this document.
> 
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> Greg Larson
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> Radioactive Solid Waste Operations Group
> Waste Acceptance and Tracking Supervisor
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> 
> 
> 
> At 02:44 PM 10/16/97 -0500, Denis J. Rinkacs, Jr. wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Can a 55 gal drum be DOT certified with out certification papers?  
> >The company is stating that they have Type A DOT certified drums 
> >with out bungs, but they do not offer certification papers.  I 
> >guess I'm confused.
> >
> >Denny
> >
> >----------------------
> >Denis J. Rinkacs, Jr.
> >Radiation Safety Officer
> >Carnegie Mellon University
> >412-268-3221
> >412-268-6976 Fax
> >dr4i@MAIL1.andrew.cmu.edu
> >
> >
> >
> 
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James H. Ogden, Jr., Emergency Planner
WIPP Transportation Project
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