E8-19237. Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received

AGENCY:

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION:

Notice of petitions for exemption received.

SUMMARY:

This notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of any petition or its final disposition.

DATE:

Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket number involved and must be received on or before September 9, 2008.

ADDRESSES:

You may send comments identified by Docket Number FAA-2008-0370 using any of the following methods:

• Government-wide rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for sending your comments electronically.
• Mail: Send comments to the Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
• Fax: Fax comments to the Docket Management Facility at 202-493-2251.
• Hand Delivery: Bring comments to the Docket Management Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building, Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
• Docket: To read background documents or comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to the Docket Management Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building, Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

We will post all comments we receive, without change, to http://www.regulations.gov,, including any personal information you provide. Using the search function of our docket Web site, anyone can find and read the comments received into any of our dockets, including the name of the individual sending the comment (or signing the comment for an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-19478).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Tyneka Thomas [phone] or Frances Shaver [phone], Office of Rulemaking, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591.

This notice is published pursuant to 14 CFR 11.85.

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2008.

Pamela Hamilton-Powell,

Director, Office of Rulemaking.

PETITIONS FOR EXEMPTION

Docket No.: FAA-2008-0370.

Petitioner: Federal Express Corporation.

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 121.651(b)(2).

Description of Relief Sought: FedEx seeks an exemption from § 121.651(b)(2) which would allow for a FAA-certified Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) equipped FedEx aircraft and a properly trained FedEx flight crew to continue an approach past the final approach fix, or where the final approach fix is not used, begin the final approach segment of a straight-in instrument approach procedure—even if the latest weather report for that airport issued by the U.S. National Weather Service, a source approved by the Administrator, reports the visibility to be less than the visibility minimums for that procedure.