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pathfinders/. 

West Building Ground Floor at 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Keira Jones (202) 267–4025, Office of 

Rulemaking, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 7, 

2016. 

Lirio Liu, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petition for Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2015–6462. 

Petitioner: U.S. Coast Guard Air 

Operations. 

Section(s) of 14 CFR Affected: 

91.155(a). 

Description of Relief Sought: The U.S. 

Coast Guard Air Operations seeks relief 

to operate an aircraft under visual flight 

rules (VFR) when the flight visibility is 

less, or at a distance from clouds that is 

less, than that prescribed for the 

corresponding altitude and class of 

airspace. U.S. Coast Guard Air 

Operations seeks this relief for the 

purpose of carrying out the U.S. Coast 

Guard’s statutory responsibilities for 

search and rescue missions. 

[FR Doc. 2016–00418 Filed 1–11–16; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. 2015–79] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received; Burlington Northern 

Santa Fe Railway 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice contains a 

summary of a petition seeking relief 

from specified requirements of title 14 

of the Code of Federal Regulations. The 

purpose of this notice is to improve the 

public’s awareness of, and participation 

in, the FAA’s exemption process. 

Neither publication of this notice nor 

the inclusion or omission of information 

in the summary is intended to affect the 

legal status of the petition or its final 

disposition. 

DATES: Comments on this petition must 

identify the petition docket number and 

must be received on or before February 

1, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2015–7512 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30; U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at 202–493–2251. 

Privacy: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 

public to better inform its rulemaking 

process. DOT posts these comments, 

without edit, including any personal 

information the commenter provides, to 

http://www.regulations.gov, as 

described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at http://www.dot.gov/

privacy. 

Docket: Background documents or 

comments received may be read at 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Follow the online instructions for 

accessing the docket or go to the Docket 

Operations in Room W12–140 of the 

West Building Ground Floor at 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical questions concerning this 

action, contact Nia Daniels, (202–267– 

7626), 800 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20591. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 7, 

2016. 

Lirio Liu, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petition for Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2015–7512. 

Petitioner: Burlington Northern Santa 

Fe Railway. 

Section(s) of 14 CFR Affected: 

91.113(b). 

Description of Relief Sought: 

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway 

(BNSF) seeks relief from the 

requirements of 14 CFR § 91.113(b) 

Right-of-way rules: Except water 

operations, while conducting small 

unmanned aircraft system (UAS) 

operations as part of the Pathfinder 

Focus Area 1 for beyond visual line-ofsight (BVLOS) in rural/isolated areas. 

The UAS research under the Pathfinder 

program is conducted in partnership 

with the FAA to explore the next steps 

in unmanned aircraft operations beyond 

the type proposed in the notice of 

proposed rulemaking (NPRM), for 

Operation and Certification of Small 

Unmanned Aircraft Systems. BNSF 

proposes to utilize technology 

developed by leading experts to provide 

at least the same level of situational 

awareness as that of a pilot flying under 

visual flight rules (VFR). 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. 2015–76] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received; Bombardier Inc. 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice contains a 

summary of a petition seeking relief 

from specified requirements of title 14 

of the Code of Federal Regulations. The 

purpose of this notice is to improve the 

public’s awareness of, and participation 

in, the FAA’s exemption process. 

Neither publication of this notice nor 

the inclusion or omission of information 

in the summary is intended to affect the 

legal status of the petition or its final 

disposition. 

DATES: Comments on this petition must 

identify the petition docket number and 

must be received on or before February 

1, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2015–3836 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30; U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 


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a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at 202–493–2251. 

Privacy: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 

public to better inform its rulemaking 

process. DOT posts these comments, 

without edit, including any personal 

information the commenter provides, to 

http://www.regulations.gov, as 

described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at http://www.dot.gov/

privacy. 

Docket: Background documents or 

comments received may be read at 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Follow the online instructions for 

accessing the docket or go to the Docket 

Operations in Room W12–140 of the 

West Building Ground Floor at 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Deana Stedman, ANM–113, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 1601 Lind 

Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057–3356, 

email deana.stedman@faa.gov, phone 

(425) 227–2148. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 6, 

2016. 

Lirio Liu, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

PETITION FOR EXEMPTION 

Docket No.: FAA–2015–3836. 

Petitioner: Bombardier Inc. 

Section(s) of 14 CFR Affected: 

§ 25.813(e) 

Description of Relief Sought: 

Title 14 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (14 CFR) Section 25.813(e) 

prohibits the installation of a door that 

separates any passenger seat that is 

occupiable during takeoff and landing 

from any passenger emergency exit. 

Bombardier Inc., seeks relief from this 

requirement for the BD–700–2B12 

Global 7000 and BD–700–2B13 Global 

8000 to allow installation of one or more 

doors between passenger seats and 

passenger emergency exits. 

Furthermore, Bombardier Inc., 

requests that the exemption, if granted, 

not include a condition (limitation) that 

would prohibit the aircraft from being 

operated for hire pursuant to 14 CFR 

part 135. 

The petitioner asserts that the aircraft 

and door(s) will incorporate design 

features that assure passengers’ ability 

to recognize the location of emergency 

exits and access those exits; thereby 

providing for an overall level of safety 

that is consistent with the intent of the 

regulations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Waiver of Debris Containment 

Requirements for Launch 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of waiver. 

SUMMARY: This notice concerns two 

petitions for waiver submitted to the 

FAA by Space Exploration Technologies 

Corp. (SpaceX): (1) A petition to waive 

the requirement that a waiver request be 

submitted at least 60 days before the 

effective date of the waiver unless good 

cause for later submission is shown in 

the petition; and (2) a petition to waive 

the requirement that analysis must 

establish designated impact limit lines 

to bound the area where debris with a 

ballistic coefficient of three or more 

pounds per square foot is allowed to 

impact if the flight safety system (FSS) 

functions properly. 

DATES: This notice is effective January 

12, 2016 and is applicable beginning 

December 18, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical questions concerning this 

waiver, contact Charles P. Brinkman, 

Licensing Program Lead, Commercial 

Space Transportation—Licensing and 

Evaluation Division, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone: (202) 267–7715; email: 

Phil.Brinkman@faa.gov. For legal 

questions concerning this waiver, 

contact Laura Montgomery, Manager, 

Space Law Branch, AGC–210, Office of 

the Chief Counsel, Regulations Division, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 

267–3150; email: Laura.Montgomery@

faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 3, 2015, SpaceX 

submitted a petition to the Federal 

Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) 

Office of Commercial Space 

Transportation (AST) requesting relief 

from a regulatory requirement for a 

launch license for flight of a Falcon 9 

launch vehicle carrying ORBCOMM–2 

satellites. Specifically, SpaceX 

requested relief from § 417.213(a), 

which requires an analysis to establish 

flight safety limits that define when an 

FSS must terminate a launch vehicle’s 

flight to prevent the hazardous effects of 

the resulting debris impacts from 

reaching any populated or other 

protected area, and the associated 

requirement of § 417.213(d), which 

requires an analysis to establish 

designated impact limit lines to bound 

the area where debris with a ballistic 

coefficient of three or more is allowed 

to impact if the FSS functions properly. 

On December 17, 2015, the FAA advised 

SpaceX that this relief must be 

requested as a waiver of § 417.213(a) 

and (d), and SpaceX modified its 

request to be a waiver petition in 

accordance with 14 CFR part 404. 

Because the scheduled launch was 

planned to occur in less than sixty days, 

SpaceX also requested a waiver to 

section 404.3(b)(5), which requires that 

a petition for waiver be submitted at 

least sixty days before the proposed 

effective date of the waiver, which in 

this case would be the date of the 

planned launch. 

The FAA licenses the launch of a 

launch vehicle and reentry of a reentry 

vehicle under authority granted to the 

Secretary of Transportation in the 

Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984, 

as amended and re-codified by 51 U.S.C. 

Subtitle V, chapter 509 (Chapter 509), 

and delegated to the FAA Administrator 

and the Associate Administrator for 

Commercial Space Transportation, who 

exercises licensing authority under 

Chapter 509. 

SpaceX is a private commercial space 

flight company. The petition addresses 

an upcoming flight that SpaceX plans to 

undertake to deliver ORBCOMM–2 

satellites. SpaceX plans for the Falcon 9 

launch vehicle to launch from Cape 

Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) 

and fly back the first stage to CCAFS for 

landing. The flight termination system 

together with autonomous engine 

shutdown cannot prevent debris from 

reaching protected areas for all failure 

scenarios during the Falcon 9 fly back 

portion of the launch. Specifically, 

impact limit lines cannot be developed 

to ensure all debris with a ballistic 

coefficient of 3 pounds per square foot 

(psf) or greater remains on CCAFS. 

Waiver Criteria 

Chapter 509 allows the FAA to waive 

a license requirement if the waiver (1) 

will not jeopardize public health and 

safety, safety of property; (2) will not 

jeopardize national security and foreign 

policy interests of the United States; and 

(3) will be in the public interest. 51 

U.S.C. 50905(b)(3) (2011); 14 CFR 

404.5(b) (2011). 


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