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commodity, the name of the manufacturer or shipper, and emerpencT medical information, if available. 1 TCS can provide retuired information for materi- als moving in transportation using the "TTE" or "HM" inquiry. 2. 3 �. The this 1. TSOOMH can provide the required information for materials used in the yard using the "UPHAZ" ins ui ry . "E+oergency Action Guides." published by the Association of American Zailroads contain com- modity -specific first-aid information for the most common hazardous materials transported by rail. Guides should be removed from the manual and urovidei to the receiving hospital. following definitions apal�y to the terns- u -din sec ti on : � w "Discharge" weans any swilling, leaking, pump- ing, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping Wt. oil, or a substantial threat of such discharge (40 CYR300.6 ) . 2.I "Znvironment" means navigable rater, surface water, ground water, drinking rater supply, land surface and subsurface strata, or ambient air (4FC71300.6) . 3.' "Hazardous material" means a substance or ma= terial which has been determined iy the Secre- tary of Transportation to be capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported, and which has been so Identified on shipping rapers (49CF1171.8). 4. "Hazardous substance" means a material designat- ed by the U.S. EPA that, when offered for trans- portation in one vackape, or in one transport vehicle which, if in bulk, the quantity of the material exceeds the reportable quantity and is so identified by the initials "IO" on the ship- aina pacers (49C?7171.8). 5. "Eazardous waste means"_`alai material subject to the hazardous waste manifest requirements of the U.S. EPA and indicated by the proper shi-pping name "Hazardous waste, liquid (or) solid, n.o.s.", or the use of the word "Waste" pro clad ing the proper shipping name (49CF1171.9 and :72.101(b)(18)).