[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 182 (Friday, September 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49292-49293]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24965]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research and Special Programs Administration
Notice of Applications for Modification of Exemption
AGENCY: Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Research and Special
Programs Administration, DOT.
ACTION: List of application for modification of exemptions.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the procedures governing the application
for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of
Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR part 107,
subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office or Hazardous
Materials Safety has received the applications described herein. This
notice is abbreviated to expedite docketing and public notice. Because
the sections affected, modes of transportation, and the nature of
application have been shown in earlier Federal Register publications,
they are not repeated here. Requests for modifications of exemptions
(e.g. to provide for additional hazardous materials, packaging design
changes, additional mode of transportation, etc.) are described in
footnotes to the application number. Application numbers with the
suffix ``M'' denote a modification request. These applications have
been separated from the new applications for exemptions for facilitate
processing.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 6, 1997.
ADDRESS COMMENTS TO: Dockets Unit, Research and Special Programs
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
20590.
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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 exemption number.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Copies of the application are available for inspection in the Dockets
Unit, Room 8426, Nassif Building, 400 7th Street SW, Washington, DC.
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Modification
Application number Docket number Applicant of exemption
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4661-M ............................ Cyprus Foote Mineral Co., Kings 4661
Mountain, NC (See Footnote 1).
10365-M ............................ U.S. Enrichment Corporation, Bethesda, 10365
MD (See Footnote 2).
11254-M ............................ Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Sugar 11254
Land, TX (See Footnote 3).
11516-M ............................ Falcon Safety Products, Somerville, NJ 11516
(See Footnote 4).
11536-M ............................ Hughes Space & Communications Co., Los 11536
Angeles, CA (See Footnote 5).
11932-M RSPA-97-2895 PEPCO Manufacturing Co., Inc., 11932
Portland, OR (See Footnote 6).
11937-M RSPA-97-2896 Puritan-Bennett Aero Systems Co., 11937
Lexena, KS (See Footnote 7).
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(1) To modify the exemption to provide for Class 3 material as an additional class for transportation in DOT
Specification 4BA240 cylinders with alternative retest procedures.
(2) To modify the exemption to provide for 21PF-1A and 21PF-1B packages with gross weights greater than
indicated in the specification and relief from marking requirement.
(3) To modify the exemption to provide for additional tool pallet models with a total explosive content not to
exceed 200 pounds per pallet.
(4) To modify the exemption to provide for certain DOT Specification 2Q containers in size greater than
presently authorized.
(5) To modify the exemption to provide for dry air, compressed, Division 2.2 as an alternative for the nitrogen
purge of the shipping containers and provide for two additional containers.
(6) To reissue an exemption orginally issued on an emergency basis authorizing the transportation in commerce of
oxygen generators in non-DOT specification bulk packaging when installed in depolyment modules and personal
service units.
(7) To reissue an exemption originally issued on an emergency basis authorizing the transportation in commerce
of an oxygen generator, chemical, with one of the two positive means of preventing unintentional actuation of
generator consisting of a packaging feature.
This notice of receipt of applications for modification of
exemptions is published in accordance with Part 107 of the Hazardous
Materials Transportations Act (49 U.S.C. 1806; 49 CFR 1.53(e)).
Issued in Washington, DC, on September 15, 1997.
J. Suzanne Hedgepeth,
Director, Office of Hazardous Materials, Exemptions and Approvals.
[FR Doc. 97-24965 Filed 9-18-97; 8:45 am]
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