[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33152-33153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15962]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration


Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Applications for 
Modification of Exemption

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration, DOT.

ACTION: List of applications for modification 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 of Hazardous 
Materials Safety has received the applications described herein. This 
notice is abbreviated to expedite

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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 to facilitate processing.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 3, 1997.

ADDRESS COMMENTS TO: Dockets Unit, Research and Special Programs 
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 exemption number.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Copies of the applications are available for 
inspection in the Dockets Unit, Room 8426, Nassif Building, 400 7th 
Street SW., Washington, DC.

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                                                                                                    Renewal of  
           Application No.                                     Applicant                             exemption  
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8230-M...............................  Olin Corporation, Norwalk, CT (See Footnote 1)...........            8230
11294-M..............................  Environmental Products & Services, Inc., Syracuse, NY               11294
                                        (See Footnote 2).                                                       
11490-M..............................  Lockheed Martin Corp., Princeton, NJ (See Footnote 3)....           11490
11854-M..............................  Zarn, Reidsville, NC (See Footnote 4)....................           11854
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\1\ To modify the exemption to provide for a smaller size teflon bottle then what is authorized, bottles will be
  placed in heat sealed bags within an absorbent lined bag and then overpacked in 4G fiberboard boxes for use in
  transporting Division 5.1 material.                                                                           
\2\ To modify the exemption to authorize the transportation in commerce of individual drums instead of pallets  
  and shrink-wrapping of lab packs.                                                                             
\3\ To reissue the exemption orginally issued on an emergency basis to authorize the transportation of Class 8  
  material in DOT-Specification 110A500W multi-unit tank tanks not equipped with pressure relief devices.       
\4\ To reissue the exemption orginally issued on an emergency basis to authorize the manufacture, mark and sale 
  of non-DOT specification packaging for use in transporting regulated medical waste classed in Division 6.2    
  material.                                                                                                     

    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 June 12, 1997.
Suzanne Hedgepeth,
Director, Office of Hazardous Materials Exemptions and Approvals.
[FR Doc. 97-15962 Filed 6-17-97; 8:45 am]
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