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Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretations

Metadata Updated: July 31, 2025

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety (OHMS) provides written clarifications of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 100-185) in the form of interpretation letters. These letters reflect the agency's current application of the HMR to the specific facts presented by the person requesting the clarification. Interpretations are one form of Guidance provided by OHMS.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

Downloads & Resources

References

https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/ocfrTool/interpretations

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date July 31, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

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Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date July 31, 2025
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Maintainer
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Data First Published 2011-01-18
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Data Last Modified 2025-07-30
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Data Update Frequency irregular
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Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/pwdf-sj2q
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Phone 202-366-4308
Program Code 021:000
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