Agribusiness Association of Iowa » Nurse Tanks http://agribiz.org An association of agribusinesses in Iowa Thu, 17 May 2012 12:49:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Fertilizer Institute’s ALERT on Nurse Tanks http://agribiz.org/2008/12/the-fertilizer-institutes-alert-on-nurse-tanks/ http://agribiz.org/2008/12/the-fertilizer-institutes-alert-on-nurse-tanks/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:21:24 +0000 Agribiz Office http://agribiz.org/wp/?p=253 This is to advise you that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has asked The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) to remind nurse tank owners and operators that under the provisions of 49 CFR 173.315(m), nurse tanks are exempt from certain DOT specification requirements ONLY when operating exclusively for agricultural purposes. This would include any nurse tank operating under the Nurse Tank Inspection Program (NTIP) special permit 13554. At this time, DOT interprets agricultural purposes to mean from the agricultural retail facility to the farm and does not consider ammonia nurse tank deliveries to ethanol plants as use for agricultural purposes.

With the DOT safety alert issued Tuesday, December 22, 2008 and in our efforts to ensure compliance with DOT regulations, we wanted to bring this latest issue to your attention.

If you have any questions, please contact Pam Guffain by telephone at (202) 515-2704 or via e-mail at pguffain@tfi.org.

]]> http://agribiz.org/2008/12/the-fertilizer-institutes-alert-on-nurse-tanks/feed/ 0 Safety Advisory Letter: Notification of Safety Problems & Non-Compliance with Nurse Tanks http://agribiz.org/2008/12/safety-advisory-letter-notification-of-safety-problems-non-compliance-with-nurse-tanks/ http://agribiz.org/2008/12/safety-advisory-letter-notification-of-safety-problems-non-compliance-with-nurse-tanks/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:27:27 +0000 Agribiz Office http://agribiz.org/wp/?p=258 Based on eight (8) recent enforcement investigations, conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), Office of Hazardous Materials Enforcement (OHME), this letter is intended to notify the industry of serious safety problems and non-compliance issues regarding the maintenance, filling, transport and use of nurse tanks in anhydrous ammonia service.  PHMSA is greatly concerned with the lack of compliance and understanding of the minimum safety requirements for nurse tanks based on its investigations.  PHMSA recognizes the breadth of the nurse tank industry.  In order to magnify its safety and compliance efforts, PHMSA feels this letter will help increase awareness and provide a means of contact for questions about the prescribed safety requirements.

In all of the investigations, PHMSA Hazmat Investigators noted a similar pattern of non-compliance and safety problems.  Click here to read a list of the areas of non-compliance and safety problems and to read the letter in its entirety.

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