[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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