[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 148 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40064-40065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19505]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Summary Notice No. PE-96-37]


Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; 
Dispositions of Petitions Issued

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of petitions for exemption received and of dispositions 
of prior petitions.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the 
application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 
CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions 
seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation 
Regulations (14 CFR Chapter I), dispositions of certain petitions 
previously received, and corrections. 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.

DATES: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before August 20, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on any petition in triplicate to:

Federal Aviation Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel, Attn: 
Rule Docket (AGC-200), Petition Docket No. ________, 800 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591.

    Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet 
address: [email protected].
    The petition, any comments received, and a copy of any final 
disposition are filed in the assigned regulatory docket and are 
available for examination in the Rules Docket (AGC-200), Room 915G, FAA 
Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. D. Michael Smith, Office of Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal Aviation 
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591; 
telephone (202) 267-7470.
    This notice is published pursuant to paragraphs (c), (e), and (g), 
of Sec. 11.27 of Part 11 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 
Part 11).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 26, 1996.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 28563.
    Petitioner: Mercer County Community College.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141.91.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Mercer County Community 
College to provide ground school courses over interactive television 
simultaneously to three institutions while notifying only one Flight 
Standards District Office (FSDO), instead of notifying each FSDO having 
jurisdiction over the individual satellite bases.

    Docket No.: 28606.
    Petitioner: Petroleum Helicopters, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.167(b)(3) (xvi), (xvii), 
(xviii), and (xix).

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    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Petroleum Helicopters, 
Inc., to conduct extended overwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico 
without carrying certain emergency equipment in the life raft on board 
the aircraft.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 27787.
    Petitioner: Ameriflight, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2)
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption No. 
5949, which permits Ameriflight, Inc., to operate certain aircraft 
without TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponders installed.
    Grant, June 27, 1996, Exemption No. 5949A.

    Docket No.: 28487.
    Petitioner: Custom Products, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.853(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Custom 
Products, Inc., to be exempt from vertical burn test requirements for 
its seat cushions assembled with currently available, non-compliant 
water-based adhesives.
    Partial Grant, July 9, 1996, Exemption No. 6477.

    Docket No.: 28550.
    Petitioner: United Parcel Service.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1415(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit operation of 
four Boeing Model 767-200 freighter airplanes, with TSO C70A Type II 
liferafts.
    Grant, April 22, 1996, Exemption No. 6427.

Good Cause

    Docket No.: 15903.
    Petitioner: Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and 
Firearms.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.111(a), 91.159(a) (1) and 
(2), and 91.209 (a) and (d).
    Description of Relief Sought: To extend and amend Exemption No. 
2327, which permits the ATF to conduct surveillance operations to 
enforce Federal laws pertaining to firearms, liquor, explosives, and 
wagering. The amendment limits the need for relief from certain 
sections of the CFR in the original exemption.

    Docket No.: 22872.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.157(a); Item I(b) of 
appendix A to part 61; 121.424(a), (b), and (d)(1); Item I(a) of 
appendix E of part 121; and Item I(b) of appendix F to part 121.
    Description of Relief Sought: To extend Exemption No. 4416, as 
amended, which allows ATA members airlines and other qualifying part 
121 certificate holders to continue to conduct training and checking of 
pilots of airplanes requiring only tow flight crewmembers on the 
required preflight inspection, both interior and exterior, using 
approved pictorial means.

    Docket No.: 28546.
    Petitioner: The Ranch Parachute Club, Ltd.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit nonstudent parachutists who 
are foreign nationals (foreign parachutists) to participate in 
parachute-jumping events sponsored by The Ranch Parachute Club, Ltd., 
(The Ranch) at The Ranch's facilities, using parachutes that have not 
been approved by the FAA, but have been accepted and/or approved for 
use by the proper authorities in the foreign parachutist's own country.

    Docket No.: 28580.
    Petitioner: Department of the Air Force.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 65.71(a)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Mr. Alfred Flores, Mr. 
Ronald Miller, and Mr. Ronald Mora, who are hearing impaired, to be 
eligible for certification as airframe and powerplant mechanics.

    Docket No.: 28590.
    Petitioner: Human Flight, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow Human Flight, Inc., 
employees, representatives, and volunteer test jumpers to make tandem 
parachute jumps while wearing a dual-harness, dual-parachute pack, 
having at least one main parachute and one approved auxiliary parachute 
packed in accordance with Sec. 105.43(a). This exemption, if granted, 
also would permit a pilot in command of an aircraft to allow such 
persons to make these parachute jumps.

[FR Doc. 96-19505 Filed 7-30-96; 8:45 am]
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