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[CITE: 49USC5126]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
              SUBTITLE III--GENERAL AND INTERMODAL PROGRAMS
 
            CHAPTER 51--TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
 
Sec. 5126. Relationship to other laws

    (a) Contracts.--A person under contract with a department, agency, 
or instrumentality of the United States Government that transports or 
causes to be transported hazardous material, or manufactures, 
fabricates, marks, maintains, reconditions, repairs, or tests a 
packaging or a container that the person represents, marks, certifies, 
or sells as qualified for use in transporting hazardous material must 
comply with this chapter, regulations prescribed and orders issued under 
this chapter, and all other requirements of the Government, State and 
local governments, and Indian tribes (except a requirement preempted by 
a law of the United States) in the same way and to the same extent that 
any person engaging in that transportation, manufacturing, fabricating, 
marking, maintenance, reconditioning, repairing, or testing that is in 
or affects commerce must comply with the provision, regulation, order, 
or requirement.
    (b) Nonapplication.--This chapter does not apply to--
        (1) a pipeline subject to regulation under chapter 601 of this 
    title; or
        (2) any matter that is subject to the postal laws and 
    regulations of the United States under this chapter or title 18 or 
    39.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 783; Pub. L. 103-
311, title I, Sec. 117(a)(2), Aug. 26, 1994, 108 Stat. 1678.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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5126(a)...............................  49 App.:1818.                    Jan. 3
, 1975, Pub. L. 93-633, 88 Stat.
                                                                          2156,
 Sec.  120; added Nov. 16, 1990,
                                                                          Pub. 
L. 101-615, Sec.  20, 104 Stat.
                                                                          3270.
5126(b)...............................  49 App.:1811(f).                 Jan. 3
, 1975, Pub. L. 93-633, Sec.
                                                                          112(f
), 88 Stat. 2161; Nov. 30, 1979,
                                                                          Pub. 
L. 96-129, Sec.  216(a), 93 Stat.
                                                                          1015;
 restated Nov. 16, 1990, Pub. L.
                                                                          101-6
15, Sec.  13, 104 Stat. 3260.
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    In subsection (a), the word ``manufactures'' is substituted for 
``manufacturers'' to correct an error in the source provisions. The 
words ``of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch'', ``be 
subject to and'', ``substantive and procedural'', and ``this chapter or 
any other'' are omitted as surplus.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-311 substituted ``a packaging or a'' 
for ``a package or''.
