The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has published a proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register that provides an exemption to hazardous material regulations for reverse-logistics shipments by road.
According to the notice, the new rule would give reverse-logistics shipments “opportunities for reduced compliance costs among hazmat shippers and carriers, without any decrease in safety.”
In addition to defining “reverse logistics,” the propose rule would establish hazardous-shipment regulations and training requirements; provide new packaging; establish clear segregation between normal hazardous shipments and returns; and “allow more flexibility for the transportation of lead acid batteries,” according to the proposed rule.
Comments on the proposed rule are due Oct. 10.
PHMSA lays out new rules for hazardous return shipments
