[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 108 (Monday, June 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30370-30371]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14329]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-99-16]


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 June 18, 1999.

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, D.C. 20591.
    Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet 
address: 9-NPRM[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, D.C. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cherie Jack (202) 267-7271 or Terry 
Stubblefield (202) 267-7624 Office of Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal 
Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 
20591.
    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).


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    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 2, 1999.
Gary A. Michel,
Acting Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 29396.
    Petitioner: Department of the Air Force.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.209.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the USAF to conduct certain 
night flight military training operations without lighted external 
aircraft position and anticollision lights.

    Docket No.: 29540.
    Petitioner: Mesaba Airlines.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.344(b)(3).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Mesaba Airlines to operate 
five Saab SF 340A Model aircraft without installing the required, 
approved digital flight data recorder until the next heavy maintenance 
check conducted after October 31, 1999.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 26326.
    Petitioner: T.B.M., Inc. and Butler Aircraft Co.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.611.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit TBM and Butler 
to conduct ferry flights in their Lockheed C-130A aircraft with one 
engine inoperative without obtaining a special flight permit for each 
flight. Grant, 5/19/99, Exemption No. 6667A.

    Docket No.: 29466.
    Petitioner: Bombardier Aerospace.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1435(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Bombardier to 
conduct a range of motion test at 3750 psig (the system relief 
pressure) for the hydraulic system on the Bombardier Regional Jet 
Series 700, Model CL-600-2C10 airplane. Grant, 5/7/99, Exemption No. 
6893.

    Docket No.: 29517.
    Petitioner: United Parcel Service Co.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.343(e).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow UPS to operate 
its Boeing B767-300F aircraft with an approved flight data recorder 
without the digital data bus complying with the flight recorder 
altitude parameters of appendix B to part 121 until the affected 
aircraft are in compliance with the digital flight data recorder 
requirments of Sec. 121.344. Grant, 5/12/99, Exemption No. 6894.

[FR Doc. 99-14329 Filed 6-4-99; 8:45 am]
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