# 2026-15805: Tiny Labels for Tiny Hazmat Loads Save Shippers Cash

2026-15805, Hazardous Materials: Reducing Costs to Domestic Shippers and Carriers of Limited Quantities, is a Federal Register rule from Transportation Department, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published 2026-08-04, effective 2026-09-03; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15805
- As of: 2026-08-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2026-15805
- Title: Hazardous Materials: Reducing Costs to Domestic Shippers and Carriers of Limited Quantities
- Type: Rule
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- Citation: 91 FR 49332
- Published: 2026-08-04
- Effective: 2026-09-03
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: 2137-AG04
- Last updated: 2026-08-11

## In one line

Tiny Labels for Tiny Hazmat Loads Save Shippers Cash

## Summary

This final rule removes undue regulatory burdens by allowing regulated entities to use a reduced sized marking for limited quantity shipments of hazardous materials by highway, rail, or vessel.

## Effects PRIA read

- Smaller Limited-Quantity Marking Allowed: benefit, low. If you ship limited quantities of hazardous materials (by modes other than air or international vessel and not radioactive), you may use a reduced size limited-quantity marking on package shipping labels starting September 3, 2026. Each reduced marking must be at least 25 mm on each side, have a vi…
- Reduced Marking Not Allowed on Overpacks: cost, low. You may not use the reduced 25 mm x 25 mm limited-quantity marking on the outside of an overpack. Overpacks must instead be marked with the regular limited quantity marking unless a representative limited-quantity marking for the hazardous material inside the overpack is already visible.
- Special-Permit Paperwork Reduced: benefit, low. PHMSA clarifies that the quarterly reporting requirement in DOT-SP 21015 was only a special-permit condition and is not required by the new regulation, and the rule eliminates the need for some special-permit renewals. PHMSA estimates a net decrease of 8 annual respondents, 8 annual responses, and…
- Federal Marking Standard Preempts Some State Rules: mixed, low. The final rule addresses marking and labeling of hazardous materials and will preempt State, local, and Tribal requirements on those covered subjects unless the non-Federal requirements are 'substantively the same' as the Federal rule. This preemptive effect is limited to the minimum necessary to a…

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- [2026-10782](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-10782): Pipeline Safety: Class Location Change Requirements; Correction, 2026-05-29
- [2026-08144](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-08144): Administrative Rulemaking, Guidance, and Enforcement Procedures, 2026-04-27
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- [2026-06323](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-06323): Pipeline Safety: Class Location Change Requirements; Response to Petition for Reconsideration, 2026-04-01

## Sources
- [2026-15805 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/04/2026-15805/hazardous-materials-reducing-costs-to-domestic-shippers-and-carriers-of-limited-quantities)
- [2026-15805 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-04/pdf/2026-15805.pdf)

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- [Next: 2026-15808, Hazardous Materials: Reducing Undue Paperwork Burdens to Domestic Carriers](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15808)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15805 (as of 2026-08-11).