65644 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 224 / Wednesday, November 21, 2007 / Notices 

year term of approval for renewal of this 

information collection requirement. 

Pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, PHMSA invites comments on 

whether the information collection is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of DOT. As used in this 

notice, the term ‘‘information 

collection’’ includes all work related to 

preparing and disseminating 

information related to this information 

collection requirement including 

completing paperwork, gathering 

information, and conducting telephone 

calls. Comments may include (1) 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

DOT’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information collection; and 

(4) ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Type of Information Collection 

Request: Renewal of Existing Collection. 

Title of Information Collection: 

Pipeline Safety: Periodic Underwater 

Inspections. 

Respondents: 82. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1,350 hours. 

Estimated Cost: $87,413. 

Issued in Washington, DC on November 15, 

2007. 

Barbara Betsock, 

Deputy Director of Regulations, Office of 

Pipeline Safety. 

[FR Doc. E7–22691 Filed 11–20–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; 

Notice of Application for Special 

Permits 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: List of applications for special 

permits. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

procedures governing the application 

for, and the processing of, special 

permits from the Department of 

Transportation’s Hazardous Material 

Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart 

B), notice is hereby given that the Office 

of Hazardous Materials Safety has 

received the application described 

herein. Each mode of transportation for 

which a particular special permit 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—Passengercarrying aircraft. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 21, 2007. 

Address Comments to: Record Center, 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 

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 selfaddressed stamped postcard showing 

the special permit number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the applications are available 

for inspection in the Records Center, 

East Building, PHH–30, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, Southeast, Washington, 

DC or at http://dms.dot.gov. 

This notice of receipt of applications 

for special permit is published in 

accordance with part 107 of the Federal 

hazardous materials transportation law 

(49 U.S.C. 5117(b); 49 CFR 1.53(b)). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

14, 2007. 

Delmer F. Billings, 

Director, Office of Hazardous Materials, 

Special Permits and Approvals. 

NEW SPECIAL PERMITS

Application 

No. Docket No. Applicant Regulation(s) affected Nature of special permits thereof 

14597–N ...... ........................ The Columbiana Boiler 

Co., Columbiana, OH.

49 CFR 173.314 ............... To authorize the transportation in commerce of anhydrous ammonia in a DOT 110 multi unit tank car 

tank. (Modes 1, 2, 3) 

14598–N ...... ........................ Tremcar USA, Inc., SaintJean-sur-Richeli eu, CN.49 CFR 178.345 ............... To authorize the use of an alternative material in the 

manufacture of cargo tank components. (Mode 1) 

14599–N ...... ........................ State of New York Department of Health, Albany, 

NY.

49 CFR 171.2(K) .............. To authorize the transportation in commerce of packagings identified as infectious substances, Category B, which are actually non-hazardous for purposes of shipping and packaging drills conducted 

through New York State to evaluate bioterrorism, 

chemical terrorism and pandemic influenza preparedness. (Modes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) 

14600–N ...... ........................ McLane Company, Inc. 

Temple, TX.

49 CFR 173.308 ............... To authorize the transportation in commerce of up to 

5,000 lighters manufactured by BIC Corporation 

per motor vehicle not subject to the requirements 

of subparts C through H of part 173 and part 177 

in its entirety. (Mode 1) 

14601–N ...... ........................ Precision Combustion 

Technology, LLC.

49 CFR 173.302a ............. To authorize the manufacture, marking, sale and use 

of a non-DOT specification pressure vessel for the 

transportation in commerce of boron trifluoride. 

(Modes 1, 2, 3) 

14602–N ...... ........................ Lockheed Martin Space 

Systems Company, 

Sunnyvale, CA.

49 CFR 173.304a, 

173.301, 172.101 Table 

Column (9B).

To authorize the transportation in commerce of anhydrous ammonia in non-DOT specification packaging. (Modes 1, 2, 3, 4) 

14603–N ...... ........................ Yi Wu Huan Qiu Can 

Manufacture Yiwu City, 

Zhejiang.

49 CFR 173.304(d), 

173.306(a) and 178.33a.

To authorize the manufacture, marking, sale and use 

of non-DOT specification inner nonrefillable metal 

receptacles similar to DOT specification 2Q containers for certain Division 2.2 materials. (Modes 1, 

2, 3, 4) 


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1The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Section of 

Environmental Analysis (SEA) in its independent 

investigation) cannot be made before the 

exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any 

request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible 

so that the Board may take appropriate action before 

the exemption’s effective date. 

2Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which currently is set at $1,300. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

[FR Doc. 07–5749 Filed 11–20–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4909–60–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; 

Notice of Applications for Modification 

of Special Permit 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: List of applications for 

modification of special permit. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

procedures governing the application 

for, and the processing of, special 

permits from the Department of 

Transportation’s Hazardous Material 

Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart 

B), notice is hereby given that the Office 

of Hazardous Materials Safety has 

received the application 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. Request of 

modifications of special permits (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 special permits 

to facilitate processing. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 6, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Address Comments to: 

Record Center, Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety 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 selfaddressed stamped postcard showing 

the special permit number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the application are available 

for inspection in the Records Center, 

East Building, PHH–30, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, Southeast, Washington, 

DC or at http://dms.dot.gov. 

This notice of receipt of applications 

for modification of special permit is 

published in accordance with part 107 

of the Federal hazardous materials 

transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5117(b); 

49 CFR 1.53(b)). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

14, 2007. 

Delmer F. Billings, 

Director, Office of Hazardous Materials, 

Special Permits and Approvals. 

MODIFICATION SPECIAL PERMITS

Application 

No. Docket No. Applicant Regulation(s) affected Nature of special permit thereof 

10788–M ....... ..................... P.S.I. Plus, Inc., East 

Hampton, CT.

49 CFR 173.302(a)(1); 175.3; 

178.65–2; 178.65–5(a)(4).

To modify the special permit to authorize the manufacture, marking, sale, and use of non-DOT 

Specification cylinders made from low carbon 

steel. 

14190–M ....... PHMSA–

21262.

Cordis Corporation, 

Miami Lakes, FL.

49 CFR 172.200; 172.300, 

172.400.

To modify the special permit to authorize the transportation in commerce of certain Division 4.1 

hazardous materials. 

14516–M ....... PHMSA–

28468.

FedEx Express, Baton 

Rouge, LA.

49 CFR 175.75(d), 172.203(a), 

172.301(c).

To modify the special permit to waive the requirement to carry a copy of the permit on every aircraft. 

[FR Doc. 07–5750 Filed 11–20–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4909–60–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[STB Docket No. AB–303 (Sub-No. 31X)] 

Wisconsin Central Ltd—Abandonment 

Exemption—in Sawyer County, WI 

Wisconsin Central Ltd (WCL) has 

filed a notice of exemption under 49 

CFR part 1152, subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments to abandon a 1.80-mile 

line of railroad between milepost 100.80 

and milepost 102.60, in Hayward, 

Sawyer County, WI. The line traverses 

United States Postal Service Zip Code 

54843. 

WCL has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) there is no overhead 

traffic on the line to be rerouted; (3) no 

formal complaint filed by a user of rail 

service on the line (or by a state or local 

government entity acting on behalf of 

such user) regarding cessation of service 

over the line either is pending with the 

Surface Transportation Board or with 

any U.S. District Court or has been 

decided in favor of complainant within 

the 2-year period; and (4) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7 

(environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.8 

(historic report), 49 CFR 1105.11 

(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12 

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR 

1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental 

agencies) have been met. 

As a condition to this exemption, any 

employee adversely affected by the 

abandonment shall be protected under 

Oregon Short Line R. Co.—

Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C. 91 

(1979). To address whether this 

condition adequately protects affected 

employees, a petition for partial 

revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) 

must be filed. 

Provided no formal expression of 

intent to file an offer of financial 

assistance (OFA) has been received, this 

exemption will be effective on 

December 21, 2007, unless stayed 

pending reconsideration. Petitions to 

stay that do not involve environmental 

issues,1 formal expressions of intent to 

file an OFA under 49 CFR 

1152.27(c)(2),2 and trail use/rail banking 

requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be 

filed by December 3, 2007. Petitions to 

reopen or requests for public use 

conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must 

be filed by December 11, 2007, with: 

Surface Transportation Board, 395 E 


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