Hazardous materials: Applications, exemptions, renewals, etc.,

[Federal Register: January 13, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 8)]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Applications for Exemptions

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration, DOT.

ACTION: List of Applicants for 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. Each mode of transportation for which a particular exemption is requested is indicated by a number in the ``Nature of Application'' portion of the table below as follows: 1--Motor vehicle, 2--Rail freight, 3--Cargo vessel, 4--Cargo aircraft only, 5--Passenger-carrying aircraft.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 12, 1998.

ADDRESS COMMENTS TO: Dockets Unit, Research and Special Programs Administration, Room 8421, DHM-30, 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 application number.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the applications (See Docket Number) are available for inspection at the New Docket Management Facility, PL-401, at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Nassif Building, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590.

This notice of receipt of applications for new 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 January 7, 1998. J. Suzanne Hedgepeth, Director, Office of Hazardous Materials, Exemptions and Approvals.

New Exemptions

Regulation(s)

Application No.

Docket No.

Applicant

affected

Nature of exemption thereof

12014-N

RSPA-97-3235

The Trane Co., 49 CFR

To authorize the transportation TEN-E Packaging 173.306(e)(1). in commerce of used

Services,

refrigerating machines

Newport, MN.

containing no more than 1000 pounds of Class A refrigerants classed as Division 2.2 (mode 1).

12020-N

RSPA-98-3307

Rhone-Poulenc, 49 CFR

To authorize tank cars

Inc./Rhodia

174.67(i)&(j). containing Class 3 and 8 Inc., Shelton,

material to remain standing

CT.

with unloading connections attached when unloading has

been temporarily discontinued or unloading incomplete without the physical presence of an

unloader (mode 2).

12021-N

RSPA-98-3309

Praxair, Inc., 49 CFR

To authorize the transportation Danbury, CT. 172.101(i)(3). in commerce of dry metal catalyst classified as Division 4.2, to be transported in non- DOT specification bulk

packaging (modes 1, 3).

12022-N

RSPA-98-3308

Taylor-Wharton, 49 CFR

To authorize the use of

Harrisburg, PA. (e)(15)(vi), ultrasonic inspection in lieu 173.302 (c)(2), of hydrostatic pressure test (3), (4) & (5), and internal visual inspection 173.34(e)(1), of 3AA cylinders for use in

(e)(3), (e)(4), transporting hazardous

(e)(8), (e)(14), materials classed as Division 173.34(e)(1), 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 (modes 1, 2, (e)(3), (e)(4), 3, 4, 5).

(e)(8), (e)(14),

(e).

12023-N

RSPA-98-3310

Apollo

49 CFR 171.5, To authorize the manufacture, Industries, N. 171.5(a)(1)(ii), marking, and sale and use of an Clarendon, Vt. 178.603.

alternative discharge control system for cargo tanks used for the transportation in commerce of liquefied compressed gases (mode 1).

12024-N

RSPA-98-3311

Warner-Lambert 49 CFR 171-180... To authorize the transportation Co., Morris

of various health care and Plains, NY.

consumer products, meeting the definition of hazardous

materials, across public roadway to be transported as unregulated (mode 1).

[FR Doc. 98-759Filed1-12-98; 8:45 am]

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