Hazardous Materials Security Plans

This information request is mandatory for offerors and carriers of certain hazardous materials to develop and implement a security plan. This collection is a reporting and recordkeeping requirement, which must be evaluated on an annual basis, as long as the hazardous materials subject to security plan requirements are still offered and/or carried. Security plans are required to be maintained at the principal place of business and must be made available, at a reasonable time and location, to an authorized official of the Department of Transportation or Department of Homeland Security. This information collection requires the evaluation of transportation security risks, including site-specific or location-specific risks associated with facilities at which the hazardous materials are prepared for transportation, stored, or unloaded incidental to movement. In addition, rail carriers of certain hazardous materials, are subject to additional security plan requirements, including the selection of the most practicable route posing the least overall safety and security risk. Security plans reduce the possibility that a hazardous material shipment will be used as a weapon of opportunity by terrorists. There is no change in total number of burden hours. However, there is a change in the number of responses, because PHMSA has expanded one reporting and recordkeeping information collection into 23 reporting and recordkeeping information collections. This change reflects more specific reporting, it is not reflective of any regulatory changes to security plan requirements.

The latest form for Hazardous Materials Security Plans expires 2021-07-31 and can be found here.

Hazardous Materials Security Plans

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