{"id":1840,"date":"2010-10-20T16:49:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2010-10-20T16:49:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:49:47","slug":"proposed-rules-for-li-batteries-will-cause-serious-impact-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/2010\/10\/20\/proposed-rules-for-li-batteries-will-cause-serious-impact-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Rules for Li Batteries Will Cause Serious Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rose Electronics &#8211; Oct 2010 &#8211; The Department of Transportation has proposed new regulations for air shipment of lithium batteries that would designate small lithium batteries and cells as Class 9 materials to be handled as potentially hazardous. \u00a0Only &#8220;extremely small lithium batteries and cells&#8221; shipped in limited quantities and packed with or contained in equipment would be expected. \u00a0<a title=\"These changes\" href=\"http:\/\/ht.ly\/2W3sM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">These changes<\/a> were developed by DOT&#8217;s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in coordination with the FAA. \u00a0 The notice of Proposed Rule Making 75 FR 1302-NPRM: Transportation of Lithium Batteries. \u00a0The DOT&#8217;s Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration concerning the safe \u00a0transportation of lithium batteries &#8211; Docket # PHMSA-2009-0095 (HM-224F). \u00a0Exceptions are only retained for batteries with lithium content at or below \u00a00.3 grams or a rating of 3.7 Wh (watt-hour) or less. \u00a0Because the impact will be &gt; $100M, this is expected to go before Congress for review. \u00a0<a title=\"HR4016\" href=\"http:\/\/ht.ly\/2W4hw\">HR4016<\/a> is the related legislation. \u00a0These changes, if enacted, will have serious repercussions on the ability to transport lithium batteries, and will also result in major cost and delivery implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rose Electronics &#8211; Oct 2010 &#8211; The Department of Transportation has proposed new regulations for air shipment of lithium batteries that would designate small lithium batteries and cells as Class 9 materials to be handled as potentially hazardous. \u00a0Only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219,220,221,222,189,223],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batteries","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-dot","tag-faa","tag-lithium-batteries","tag-lithium-cells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}