This chapter applies to all state owned bridge-tunnel facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and establishes the rules by which all interstate, intrastate, and public and private transporters of hazardous materials are governed while traveling through these certain bridge-tunnel facilities.

The following table lists the six state-owned bridge-tunnel facilities in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Department of Transportation owns and operates all six facilities listed to which this chapter applies. A list of telephone numbers for each facility is available at the following website: https://www.vdot.virginia.gov/travel-traffic/freight/hazmat/.

For purposes of this chapter, the facilities listed above in the table in this section are classified into two groups: rural and essentially distanced from bodies of water, and urban and essentially proximate to bodies of water.

The two rural and distanced-from-water tunnel facilities are: the Big Walker Mountain Tunnel and the East River Mountain Tunnel. For these the two rural tunnels, and these two only, no restrictions apply on the transport of hazardous materials, so long as transporters and shippers are in compliance with 49 CFR 100 through 180, and any present and future applicable state regulations which may become in force to implement the federal regulations. In addition, the Commissioner of Highways may, at any time, impose emergency or temporary restrictions on the transport of hazardous materials through these facilities, so long as sufficient advanced signage is positioned to allow for a reasonable detour.

이 규정의 이 부분에 대한 질문은 VDOT 안전, 보안 및 비상 관리 부서로 문의해 주시기 바랍니다. 해당 부서는 VDOT로 전화( 804) 또는 이메일(786)로 연락 가능합니다. 웹사이트는4692 입니다. 규정 사본은 무료로 제공됩니다. 복사본을 원하시는 경우, 아래 주소로 연락해 주시기 바랍니다:

Virginia 주 교통부

주의: 안전, 보안 및 비상 관리 부서

1221 이스트 브로드 스트리트

버지니아주 리치몬드 23219

Hazardous materials are regulated in the four urban and water-proximate tunnels (Elizabeth River (Midtown and Downtown), Hampton Roads, and Monitor-Merrimac) based exclusively on the "hazard class" of the material being conveyed. The following tables in this section list those categories of materials grouped under the designations "Prohibited," "No Restrictions," or "Restricted."

Regulations concerning the transportation of hazardous materials across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT) are available from the CBBT website: https://www.cbbt.com/regulations/#hazmat.