2024-10571. Hazardous Materials: Notice of Applications for Modification To Special Permits

AGENCY:

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), DOT.

ACTION:

List of applications for modification of special permits.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations, notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has received the application described herein.

DATES:

Comments must be received on or before May 30, 2024.

ADDRESSES:

Record Center, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

U.S. Department of Transportation Washington, DC 20590.

Comments should refer to the application number and be submitted in triplicate. If confirmation of receipt of comments is desired, include a self-addressed stamped postcard showing the special permit number.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Donald Burger, Chief, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety General Approvals and Permits Branch, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, East Building, PHH-13, 1200 New Jersey Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC 20590-0001, [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Each mode of transportation for which a particular special permit is requested is indicated by a number in the “Nature of Application” portion of the table below as follows: 1—Motor vehicle, 2—Rail freight, 3—Cargo vessel, 4—Cargo aircraft only, 5—Passenger-carrying aircraft.

Copies of the applications are available for inspection in the Records Center, East Building, PHH-13, 1200 New Jersey Avenue Southeast, Washington DC or at http://regulations.gov.

This notice of receipt of applications for special permit is published in accordance with part 107 of the Federal hazardous materials transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5117(b); 49 CFR 1.53(b)).

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2024.

Donald P. Burger,

Chief, General Approvals and Permits Branch.

Application No.	Applicant	Regulation(s) affected	Nature of the special permits thereof
SPECIAL PERMITS DATA
11380-M	Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC	173.302(a)(1), 178.37(h)(3)	To modify the special permit to authorize an additional cylinder. (modes 1, 2, 3, 4).
15866-M	Consumer Product Safety Commission, U.S	173.185	To modify the special permit to authorize UN3171, battery-powered vehicle, UN3481, lithium ion batteries packed with equipment, and UN3091, lithium metal batteries packed with equipment. (modes 1, 2, 3).
16011-M	Americase, LLC	172.200, 172.300, 172.400, 172.700, 173.185(f)	To modify the special permit to authorize end-of-life batteries and various battery chemistries within the same outer packaging. (modes 1, 2).
21380-M	Tesla, Inc.	173.21(c), 173.185(b)(1), 173.185(b)(2)(iii), 173.185(b)(4)(ii)	To modify the special permit to authorize an additional energy storage system. (mode 1).