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§180.507 Qualification of tank cars.

RegSenseGeneral Packaging Requirements - HazmatPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), DOTCFR RegulationsHazmat SafetyFocus AreaCFR SectionGeneral Packaging Requirements - HazmatEnglishTransportationUSA

(a) Each tank car marked as meeting a ‘‘DOT’’ specification or any other tank car used for the transportation of a hazardous material must meet the requirements of this subchapter or the applicable specification to which the tank was constructed.

(b)(1) Tank cars prescribed in the following table are no longer authorized for construction but may remain in hazardous materials service provided they conform to all applicable safety requirements of this subchapter:

Table 1 to Paragraph (b)(1)
Specification prescribed in the current regulationsOther specifications permittedNotes
105A200W105A100W1
105A200ALW105A100ALW1
Note 1 to Table 1 to paragraph (b)(1): Tanks built as Specification DOT 105A100W or DOT 105A100ALW may be altered and converted to DOT 105A200W and DOT 105A200ALW, respectively.

(2) [Reserved]

(3) Specification DOT-113A175W, DOT-113C60W, DOT-113D60W, and DOT-113D120W tank cars may continue in use, but new construction is not authorized.

(4) Class DOT 105A and 105S tank cars used to transport hydrogen chloride, refrigerated liquid under the terms of DOT-E 3992 may continue in service, but new construction is not authorized.

(5) Specification DOT-103A-ALW, 103AW, 103ALW, 103ANW, 103BW, 103CW, 103DW, 103EW, and 104W tank cars may continue in use, but new construction is not authorized.

[Amdt. 180–8, 60 FR 49079, Sept. 21, 1995, as amended at 68 FR 48572, Aug. 14, 2003; 77 FR 37987, June 25, 2012; 87 FR 79785, Dec. 27, 2022]

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