Radioactive (RAM) Transportation Requirements

The burdens under this OMB control number are mandatory, when required by the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180), to ensure that certain radioactive materials are properly shipped in a safe way. The information collections under this OMB control number fall under both reporting and recordkeeping and occur when an offeror is shipping a certain type of radioactive material. Under this OMB control number, shippers of certain types of radioactive material are required to obtain approvals from DOT in order to ship radioactive materials, including authorization for using boxes, providing information to a person transporting exclusive use shipments, and ensuring that the U.S. Competent Authority is aware of those persons offering radioactive materials. This information is provided to the Department of Transportation or the person transporting the radioactive material (depending on the type of information collection) and is typically used by to ensure that shipments of radioactive materials are being done within the confines of the HMR. During PHMSA’s review of the burden, it was noted that historically the information collections were grouped into a single collection. Following this review, PHMSA has adjusted this burden to eight different information collections. Because of this adjustment, there has been a change to the number of respondents and responses and a slight change to the amount of annual burden hours due to a better accounting of current burden hours. In addition, when PHMSA broke out the information collections individually it was discovered that 3 information collections have less than 10 respondents and are therefore not subject to the paperwork reduction act. These 3 information collections are not part of a unique population and are therefore not reflected as individual information collections in this renewal request.

The latest form for Radioactive (RAM) Transportation Requirements expires 2022-09-30 and can be found here.

Radioactive (RAM) Transportation Requirements

Federal Enterprise Architecture: Transportation - Ground Transportation