Re: Shipping

["Alan R. Marchand" <radarm@accessnv.com>]

This section of the 49 CFR requires training even for radioactive material- excepted packages. you must know what makes it limited quantity of material.

Alan R. Marchand
Las Vegas, NV
radarm@accessnv.com

49 CFR 173.422 (b)An excepted package of Class 7 (radioactive) material that is classed as Class 7 and is prepared for shipment under the provisions of 173.421, 173.423, 173.424, 173.426 or 173.428 is not sbject to the requirements of this subchapter, except for-
(3) The training requirements of subpart H of part 172 of this subchapter and, for materials that meet the definition of a hazardous substance or a hazardous waste, the shipping paper requirements of subpart C of Part 172 of this subpart.

At 11:00 AM 2/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
>The way I interpt the regs for limited quanity shipment of radioactive
>material is since limited quanity is excepted from shipping papers
>(49CFR173.424) that driver training is not require IAW 49CFR172.606.
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>Is there anything else that contradict this statement.
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>Thanks
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