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[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 73 (Thursday, April 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 18965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10070]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Applications for 
Modification of Exemption

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration, DOT.

ACTION: List of Applications for Modification of 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. This 
notice is abbreviated to expedite docketing and public notice. Because 
the sections affected, modes of transportation, and the nature of 
application have been shown in earlier Federal Register publications, 
they are not repeated here. Requests for modifications of exemptions 
(e.g. to provide for additional hazardous materials, packaging design 
changes, additional mode of transportation, etc.) are described in 
footnotes to the application number. Application numbers with the 
suffix ``M'' denote a modification request. These applications have 
been separated from the new applications for exemptions to facilitate 
processing.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 1, 1998.

ADDRESS COMMENTS TO: Dockets Unit, Research and Special Programs 
Administration, 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 number.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Copies of the applications are available for inspection in the Dockets 
Unit, Room 8426, Nassif Building, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC.

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                                                                                                    Modification
       Application No.                     Docket No.                         Applicant             of exemption
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4844-M......................  ...................................  Kidde-Graviner Ltd., Colnbrook,          4844
                                                                    Slough, Berks, UK (See                      
                                                                    Footnote 1).                                
9419-M......................  ...................................  FIBA Technologies, Inc.,                 9419
                                                                    Westboro, MA (See Footnote 2).              
10458-M.....................  ...................................  Marsulex Inc., Sudbury, ON (See         10458
                                                                    Footnote 3).                                
11483-M.....................  ...................................  Autoliv, Autoflator AB,                 11483
                                                                    Vargarda, SW (See Footnote 4).              
11667-M.....................  ...................................  Weldship Corporation,                   11667
                                                                    Bethlehem, PA (See Footnote 5).             
11790-M.....................  ...................................  United States Enrichment                11790
                                                                    Corporation, Bethesda, MD (See              
                                                                    Footnote 6).                                
11872-M.....................  RSPA-1997-2584.....................  Polymet Alloys, Inc., Saginaw,          11872
                                                                    AL (See Footnote 7).                        
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(\1\) To modify the exemption to provide for rail, air and cargo vessel as additional modes of transportation   
  for use in transporting non-DOT specification foreign made steel cylinders.                                   
(\2\) To modify the exemption to provide for minimum wall thickness to be reduced to 0.299 inch for DOT         
  Specification 3AAX or 3T cylinders and increase the quantity of cylinders retested to 1,000 annually.         
(\3\) To modify the exemption to provide for Sulfur dioxide, Division 2.2 as an additional class of material for
  transportation in DOT Specification 111A100W2 tank cars.                                                      
(\4\) To modify the exemption to provide for an additional designed non-DOT specification, refillable, high     
  pressure cylinders charged with Division 2.2 material for transportation as part of modules for automobile    
  airbag systems.                                                                                               
(\5\) To authorize the modification of personnel qualifications for retesting of DOT-3AAX and 3T cylinders.     
(\6\) To modify the exemption to provide for alternative material to be used in tubing of non-specification     
  cylinders similar to DOT 5A and 5B specification cylinder without required markings for use in transporting   
  uranium hexafluoride, Class 7.                                                                                
(\7\) To modify exemption to provide for tarp covered vehicles for transportation of water reactive, solid,     
  Division 4.3 in flexible intermediate bulk containers.                                                        

    This notice of receipt of applications for modification of 
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 April 10, 1998.
J. Suzanne Hedgepeth,
Director, Office of Hazardous Materials Exemptions and Approvals.
[FR Doc. 98-10070 Filed 4-15-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-60-M
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