Categorical Exclusion

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)

Exclusion Text

(3) Rulemaking actions by the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, other than deregulatory rulemaking actions, within one of the following categories:
(a) Policies, directives, regulations, and guidelines that are of an administrative, financial, legal, technical, or procedural nature.
(b) Regulations designating, defining, or classifying regulated materials (hazardous materials, hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, marine pollutants, elevated temperature materials, materials designated as hazardous in the Hazardous Materials Table (49 C.F.R. § 172.101), and materials that meet the defining criteria for hazard classes and divisions in 49 C.F.R. Part 173).
(c) Regulations imposing requirements on transportation of regulated materials, including shipping papers, marking, labeling, placarding, emergency response information, training, and safety and security plans.
(d) Regulations concerning stowage and segregation of regulated materials in transportation, including rail car, portable tank, and cargo tank placement; loading, unloading, transportation, and storage of regulated materials by mode (rail, aircraft, vessel, and highway); revising standards for bulk and non-bulk packages (cylinders, portable tanks, cargo tanks, radioactive packages, intermediate bulk containers, drums, jerricans, boxes, and composite packaging, etc.); or incident reporting or tracking of regulated movements.
(e) Editorial or technical revisions and clarifications to correct editorial errors and improve clarity.
(f) Training, testing, and qualification of regulated materials personnel.