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.

Mọi thắc mắc về phần này của quy định phải được chuyển đến Văn phòng Quản lý An toàn, An ninh và Khẩn cấp của VDOT, có thể liên hệ bằng cách gọi đến VDOT theo số 804-786-4692. Bản sao của quy định sẽ được cung cấp miễn phí. Để có bản sao, vui lòng viết thư tới:

Sở Giao thông Vận tải Virginia

ATTN: Văn phòng An toàn, An ninh và Quản lý Khẩn cấp

1221 Đường East Broad

Richmond, Virginia 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.