# Hazardous Materials: Revision of Maximum and Minimum Civil Penalties
> **Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration** · Interim final rule. · Published 2016-06-29 · Effective 2016-08-01 · 81 FR 42266
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-15404
- **Category:** pipeline-safety
- **Sub-agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 42266
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 107
- **Publication date:** 2016-06-29
- **Effective date:** 2016-08-01
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. PHMSA-2016-0041 (HM-258D)
## Abstract

PHMSA is revising the maximum and minimum civil penalties for a knowing violation of the Federal hazardous material transportation law or a regulation, order, special permit, or approval issued under that law. The "Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015" (the 2015 Act), which amended the Federal Civil Penalties, Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (the Inflation Adjustment Act), requires Agencies to update their civil monetary penalties through interim final rulemaking. The maximum civil penalty for a knowing violation is now $77,114, except for violations that result in death, serious illness, or severe injury to any person or substantial destruction of property, for which the maximum civil penalty is $179,933. In addition, the minimum civil penalty amount for a violation relating to training is now $463.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/06/29/2016-15404/hazardous-materials-revision-of-maximum-and-minimum-civil-penalties)
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