[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64130-64131]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-24524]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration


Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Delays in 
Processing of Exemption Applications

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration, DOT.

ACTION: List of application delayed more than 180 days.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), RSPA 
is publishing the following list of exemption applications that have 
been in process for 180 days or more. The reason(s) for delay and the 
expected completion date for action on each application is provided in 
association with each identified application.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Delmer Billings, Office of Hazardous 
Materials Exemptions and Approvals, Research and Special Programs 
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001, (202) 366-4535.

Key to ``Reason for Delay''

    1. Awaiting additional information for applicant.
    2. Extensive public comment under review.
    3. Application is technically complex and is of significant impact 
or precedent-setting and requires extensive analysis.
    4. Staff review delayed by other priority issues or volume of 
exemption applications.

Meaning of Application Number Suffixes

    N--New application.
    M--Modification request.
    PM--Party to application with modification request.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 28, 2004.
R. Ryan Posten,
Exemptions Program Officer, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety 
Exemptions & Approvals.

                                           New Exemption Applications
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                                                                                   Reason for  Estimated date of
      Application No.                             Applicant                          delay         completion
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11927-N....................  Alaska Marine Lines, Inc., Seattle, WA.............            4         12-31-2004
12381-N....................  Ideal Chemical & Supply Co., Memphis, TN...........            2         01-31-2005
12412-N....................  Great Western Chemical Company, Portland, OR.......            3         01-31-2005
12751-N....................  Defense Technology Corporation, Casper, WY.........            4         12-31-2004
12797-N....................  Environmental Quality Co., Belleville, MI..........            4         01-31-2005
12960-N....................  International Fuel Cells, South Windsor, CT........            1         11-30-2004
13055-N....................  Stenstrom Petroleum Equipment Group, Rockford, IL..            4         01-31-2005
13183-N....................  Becton Dickinson, Sandy, UT........................            4         12-31-2004
13188-N....................  General Dynamics, Lincoln, NE......................            1         12-31-2004
13309-N....................  OPW Engineered Systems, Lebanon, OH................            4         01-31-2005
13295-N....................  Taylor-Wharton, Harrisburg, PA.....................            1         12-31-2004
13266-N....................  Luxfer Gas Cylinders, Riverside, CA................            1         12-31-2004
13265-N....................  Aeropres Corporation, Shreveport, LA...............            4         11-30-2004
13228-N....................  AirSep Creekside Corp., Buffalo, NY................            4         12-31-2004
13225-N....................  Quantum Technologies, Irvine, CA...................            1         12-31-2004
13281-N....................  The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI..............            4         11-30-2004
13422-N....................  Puritan Bennett, Plainfield, IN....................            3         12-31-2004
12949-N....................  Railway Progress Institute, Inc., Alexandria, VA...            4         01-31-2005
13482-N....................  U.S. Vanadium Corporation (Subsidiary of Strategic             4         11-30-2004
                              Minerals Corporation), Niagra Falls, NY.
13443-N....................  Koch Materials Company, Wichita, KS................            4         11-30-2004
13423-N....................  E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Wilmington,            1         01-31-2005
                              DE.
13461-N....................  FIBA Technologies, Inc., Westboro, MA..............            4         12-31-2004
13346-N....................  Stand-By-Systems, Inc., Dallas, TX.................            1         12-31-2004
13347-N....................  ShipMate, Inc., Torrance, CA.......................            4         12-31-2004
13341-N....................  National Propane Gas Association, Washington, DC...            1         12-31-2004
13302-N....................  FIBA Technologies, Inc., Westboro, MA..............            4         12-31-2004
13314-N....................  Sunoco Inc., Philadelphia, PA......................            4         01-31-2005
13560-N....................  Texaco Ovonic Hydrogen Systems L.L.C. (TOHS),                  4         12-31-2004
                              Rochester Hills, MI.
13554-N....................  The Fertilizer Institute, Washington, DC...........            4         12-31-2004
13547-N....................  CP Industries, McKeesport, PA......................            4         01-31-2005
13976-N....................  Osmose Utilities Services, Inc., Buffalo, NY.......            4         11-30-2004
13551-N....................  INO Therapeutics LLC, Port Allen, LA...............            4         12-31-2004
13484-N....................  Air Liquide Ameria L.P., Houston, TX...............            4         11-30-2004
13176-N....................  Union Pacific Railroad Company, Omaha, NE..........            4         01-31-2005
13054-N....................  CHS Transportation, Mason City, IA.................            4         11-30-2004
13077-N....................  MacIntyre, Middlebury, VT..........................            4         01-31-2005
12950-N....................  Walnut Industries, Inc., Bensalem, PA..............            4         01-31-2005
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                                           Modification to Exemptions
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                                                                                   Reason for  Estimated date of
      Application No.                             Applicant                          delay         completion
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11769-M....................  Great Western Chemical Company, Portland, OR.......            2         01-31-2005
12065-M....................  Petrolab Company, Latham, NY.......................            4         12-31-2004
10019-M....................  Structural Composites Industries, Pomona, CA.......            3         12-31-2004
12443-M....................  Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex, LLC, Chickamauga, GA            4         01-31-2005
8650-M.....................  Ethyl Corporation, Richmond, VA....................            4         12-31-2004
9149-M.....................  Ethyl Corporation, Richmond, VA....................            4         12-31-2004
7073-M.....................  Ethyl Corporation, Richmond, VA....................            4         12-31-2004
12443-M....................  Kinder Morgan Materials Services, Sewickley, PA....            4         01-31-2005
13080-M....................  Pressed Steel Tank Co., Milwaukee, WI..............            1         12-31-2004
10915-M....................  Luxfer Gas Cylinders (Composite Cylinder Division),            1         01-31-2005
                              Riverside, CA.
10878-M....................  Tankcon FRP Inc., Boisbriand, QC...................          1,3         11-30-2004
12443-M....................  Kinder Morgan Materials Services, Sewickley, PA....            4         01-31-2005
9421-M.....................  Taylor-Wharton (Gas & Fluid Control Group),                    4         12-31-2004
                              Harrisburg, PA.
12022-M....................  Taylor-Wharton (Gas & Fluid Control Group),                    4         12-31-2004
                              Harrisburg, PA.
11537-M....................  Interstate Chemical Company, Inc., Hermitage, PA...            2         01-31-2005
10882-M....................  Espar Products, Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.            4         11-30-2004
12443-M....................  Buckbee-Mears Cortland (BMC), Minneapolis, MN......            4         01-31-2005
11537-M....................  Hawkins, Inc., Minneapolis, MN.....................            2         01-31-2005
7280-M.....................  Department of Defense, Ft. Eustis, VA..............            4         12-31-2004
8718-M.....................  Structural Composites Industries, Pomona, CA.......            3         12-31-2004
8162-M.....................  Structural Composites Industries, Pomona, CA.......            3         12-31-2004
7277-M.....................  Structural Composites Industries, Pomona, CA.......            3         12-31-2004
7060-M.....................  Federal Express, Memphis, TN.......................            4         12-31-2004
11769-M....................  Great Western Chemical Company, Portland, OR.......            2         01-31-2005
11537-M....................  JCI Jones Chemicals, Inc., Milford, VA.............            2         01-31-2005
11769-M....................  Hydrite Chemical Company, Brookfield, WI...........            2         01-31-2005
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