[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66226-66227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30664]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-99-39] NMS 11/19/99


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),

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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 December 14, 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, DC 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, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cherie Jack (202) 267-7271 or Vanessa 
Wilkins (202) 267-8029 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).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on November 19, 1999.
Michael E. Chase,
Acting Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 25559.
    Petitioner: Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. 
(AIA).
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.182(a) and 45.11(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow aircraft manufacturers to 
manufacture aircraft for use in operations conducted under 14 CFR part 
121, aircraft intended to be used for commuter operations under 14 CFR 
part 135, aircraft used for export, and aircraft certificated under 14 
CFR part 25 and manufactured for use in operations under 14 CFR part 91 
and 14 CFR part 129, without installing an identification plate during 
the production phase on the exterior of those aircraft.

    Docket No.: 29659.
    Petitioner: Aviation Services Int'l, Inc.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.51(e)(1)(i) and 61.129(c).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit ASII pilots in training to 
use public aircraft to log pilot-in-command flight time and 
aeronautical experience for a helicopter rating.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 27180.
    Petitioner: EVA Airways Corporation.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.77(a) and (b) and 63.23(a) 
and (b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the issuance of 
U.S. special purpose pilot authorizations and special purpose flight 
engineer certificates to airmen employed by EVA without those airmen 
meeting the requirement to hold a current foreign certificate or 
license issued by a foreign contracting State to the International 
Civil Aviation Organization, provided the airmen hold appropriate 
certificates issued by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Republic 
of China.
    GRANT, 9/24/99, Exemption No. 6689B.

    Docket No.: 28559.
    Petitioner: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.327(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Rockwell to use 
a printout from its Order Management System for Class II products 
instead of the Application for Export Certificate of Airworthiness 
(Form 8130-1).
    GRANT, 10/1/99, Exemption No. 6604B.

    Docket No.: 25863.
    Petitioner: Department of Defense.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.117(a) and (b), 91.159(a), 
and 91.209(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the DOD to 
conduct air operations in support of drug law enforcement and traffic 
interdiction without meeting certain requirements pertaining to (1) 
aircraft speed, (2) cruising altitudes for flights conducted under 
visual flight rules, and (3) the use of aircraft position lights.
    GRANT, 9/25/99, Exemption No. 5100E.

    Docket No.: 28718.
    Petitioner: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.325(b)(3).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow the issuance of 
export airworthiness approvals for aircraft tires manufactured and 
located at Goodyear's Bangkok, Thailand, facility.
    GRANT, 10/15/99, Exemption No. 6682A.

    Docket No.: 29146.
    Petitioner: TRAMCO, Inc., doing business as BFGoodrich Aerospace.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow BFGoodrich to 
make its inspection procedures manual (IPM) available to its 
supervisory and inspection personnel in lieu of giving a copy of the 
IPM to each if its supervisory and inspection personnel.
    GRANT, 10/4/99, Exemption No. 7024.

    Docket No.: 29536.
    Petitioner: Astral Aviation, Inc., doing business as Skyway 
Airlines.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.409(d).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow Skyway to use 
the EMB-145 flight simulator as a temporary substitute for that 
required by Sec. 121.409(d) to conduct low altitude windshear flight 
training.
    PARTIAL GRANT, 9/23/99, Exemption No. 7001.

    Docket No.: 29606.
    Petitioner: The Ninety-Nines of North Jersey, Inc.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.251, 135.255, 135.353, and 
appendixes I and J to part 121.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow the Ninety-Nines 
to conduct local sightseeing flights for its annual Pennies-a-Pound 
event on October 9, 1999, or October 10, 1999, for compensation or 
hire, without complying with certain anti-drug and alcohol misuse 
prevention requirements of part 135.
    GRANT, 9/24/99, Exemption No. 7006.

    Docket No.: 29710.
    Petitioner: Airbus Industrie.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.144(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit relief from the 
requirement for passenger oxygen masks to be automatically presented 
before the cabin pressure altitude exceeds 15,000 feet for Airbus Model 
A319, A320, and A321 series airplanes.
    PARTIAL GRANT, 9/16/99, Exemption No. 6994.

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