The 2025/2026 Hazardous Materials, Substances & Wastes Compliance Guide CONTENTS

DOT

  Hazardous Materials: Liquified Natural Gas by Rail     

•   Revisions to Civil Penalty Amounts, 2025          

• Numerous Editorial Corrections and Clarifications to the Department of Transportation, including numerous made to the Hazardous Materials Table

• HM-215Q amendments in which PHMSA amended the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to maintain alignment with international regulations and standards by adopting various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements. Additionally, amended was the HMR done to allow for better alignment with Transport Canada’s Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations.

  (Amendments and corrections to April 10, 2024 HM-215Q)

  EPA

• Integrating e-Manifest With Hazardous Waste Exports and Other Manifest Related Reports, PCB Manifest Amendments and Technical  Corrections

• Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Management of Certain Hydrofluorocarbons and Substitutes Under Subsection (h) of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020

• Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule, the Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rule, and the Definition of Solid Waste Rule; Technical Corrections
  
  
  
  
  

  OSHA

•  HAZARD COMMUNICATION STANDARD- CORRECTIONS AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS

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The 2024 EMERGENCY
RESPONSE GUIDEBOOK

Hazardous Materials Publishing 

Compliance with the Federal Regulations requires using reference materials, labels, placards, shipping papers, and manifests. Hazardous Materials Publishing carries everything you need for total compliance.

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This year's guide has been improved with a more detailed index, easier-to-find references,over 40 pages of training and compliance examples illustrating various regulatory requirements and even comes with a DOT test.

The Compliance Guide contains the 49 CFR Department of Transportation Hazardous Material Regulations and the 2024 Emergency Response Guide Book, the 40 CFR Environmental Protection Agency Hazardous Waste Management and Disposal Regulations and the 29 CFR Occupational Safety and Health Administration Worker Protection Regulations, and provides the all-important interface between these confusing and often conflicting requirements.

DOT -Transportation

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
REGULATIONS CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS – TITLE 49

This includes all the hazardous materials regulations including:
HM-126F, HM-181, HM-215A - 215G, HM-215I, HM-215P, HM-215Q & HM-232, and more.
Future Amendments or corrections to the regulations will appear in the Federal Register.

• Part 171 - General Information, Regulations and Definitions

• Part 172 - Hazardous Materials Communication Standards

• Subpart A 172.1/172.3 - General Information

• Subpart B 172.101/172.102 - Table of Hazardous Materials and Special Provisions.

• Appendix A to 172.101 Table - List of Hazardous Substances and Reportable Quantities (RQs)

• Appendix B to 172.101 Table - List of Marine Pollutants

• Subpart C - 172.200/205 - Shipping Papers

• Subpart D - 172.300/338 - Marking

• Subpart E - 172.400/450 - Labeling

• Subpart F - 172.500/560 - Placarding

• Subpart G - 172.600/604 - Emergency Response Information

• Subpart H - 172.700/704 - Training/Testing

• Subpart I - 172.800 - Safety and Security Plan

• Part 173 - Shipper/Generator General Requirements for Shipments and Packagings

• Parts 174/177 - Carriage by Rail, Aircraft, Vessel and Highway

• Part 178 - Specifications and Testing for Packagings

• Part 180 Continuing Qualification and Maintenance of  Packagings

  Also includes:

• DOT Hazardous Materials Checklist For Highway Shipments

• END-USE LIST FROM 172.101 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TABLE

• 2025/2026 DOT Hazardous Materials Test

• Updated DOT Index

• Placarding Chart

• NEW 2024  EMERGENCY RESPONSE GUIDEBOOK (ERG)

  • Emergency Response Guide by UN/NA Identification Numbers

  • Emergency Response Guide by Proper DOT Shipping Names

  • Table of Initial Isolation and Protective Action Distances

  EPA - Environment

  ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY HAZARDOUS WASTE REGULATIONS CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS - TITLE 40

  • Part 260 Hazardous Waste Management System,General Requirements

  • Part 261 Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste, Subparts A/D and

  • Appendixes I through VIII

  • Part 262 Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste; Subparts A through H, K, L, Subpart M; Preparedness and Prevention, & Emergency Procedures for Large Quantity Generators.

  • Part 263 Standards Applicable to Transporters of Hazardous Waste

  • Part 265 Generator Standards under Interim Status TSD Facilities for Use and Management of Containers, Lab Packs.

  • Part 266 Management Standards for the Management of Specific Hazardous Wastes Hazardous Including Waste Pharmaceuticals.

  • The Hazardous Waste E-Manifest Survival Guide available online

  • Part 268 Land Disposal Restrictions

  • Part 270 Hazardous Waste Permit Program

  • Part 273 Standards for Universal Waste Management

  • Part 279 Standards for the Management of Used Oil

  • Part 302 Designation, Reportable Quantities (RQ’s), and Notification

  • Part 303 Citizen Awards for Notification of Criminal Violations Under Superfund

  • Part 311 Worker Protection

  • Part 355 SARA/Emergency Planning and Notification

  • Appendix A List of Extremely Hazardous Substances and Threshold Planning Quantities

  • Part 370 SARA/Hazardous Chemical Reporting: Community Right-To-Know

  • Updated EPA Index

OSHA - Worker Protection

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION HAZARDOUS WASTE OPERATIONS & EMERGENCY RESPONSE (HAZWOPER) AND WORKER RIGHT-TO-KNOW CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS - TITLE 29

• Section 1910.38 Employee Emergency and Fire Prevention Plans

• Section 1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations/Emergency Response

• Section 1910.1000 Air Contaminants

• Section 1910.1020 Access to Employee Exposure & Medical Records

• Section 1910.1030 Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens

• Section 1910.1200 Hazard Communication

• Section 1910.1450 Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Labs

• GHS SDS Example

• Updated OSHA Index