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GRANT, January 11, 1995, Exemption

No. 4849D

Docket No.: 23358

Petitioner: Clarke Environmental

Mosquito Management, Inc.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

91.313(c)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To extend Exemption No.

5010, as amended, which permits

Clarke Environmental Mosquito

Management, Inc., to carry passengers

in restricted category aircraft

(specifically two Bell 47G–5

helicopters) while performing aerialsite survey flights.

GRANT, January 18, 1995, Exemption

No. 5010C

Docket No.: 25899

Petitioner: Executive Air Taxi Corp.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

43.3(g)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit Executive Air

Taxi Corp., pilots to remove and

reinstall passenger seats and approved

stretcher bases in its single-engine

and multi-engine aircraft.

PARTIAL GRANT, December 13, 1994,

Exemption No. 5997

Docket No.: 26804

Petitioner: Mr. Jim Gallagher

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

21.19(b)(1)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit Mr. Jim

Gallagher to apply for a supplemental

type certificate instead of a new type

certificate for a design change that

adds an engine to the Intrprinderea De

Constructii Aeronautice (Romania)

Model IS–28B2 glider.

PARTIAL GRANT, December 19, 1994,

Exemption No. 6013

Docket No.: 27235

Petitioner: United Airlines, Inc.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

appendix H, part 121

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To extend Exemption No.

5807, which permits United Airlines,

Inc., to conduct second-in-command

initial training and checking

(including type ratings when

appropriate) in accordance with the

Phase III simulator requirements of

part 121, appendix H, when the

simulator does not meet the motion,

buffet, and sound requirements for a

Phase III simulator.

GRANT, January 23, 1995, Exemption

No. 5807A

Docket No.: 27405

Petitioner: Mandarin Airlines Co.,

Limited

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

61.77 and 63.23

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To extend Exemption No.

5592, which permits the issuance of

U.S. special purpose pilot and flight

engineer certificates to Mandarin’s

airmen, without meeting the

requirement that they hold a current

foreign certificate or license issued by

a foreign contracting state to ICAO.

GRANT, January 20, 1995, Exemption

No. 5592A

Docket No.: 27448

Petitioner: TurboCombustor Technology

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

145.45(f)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To allow

TurboCombustor Technology to keep

copies of its Inspection Procedures

Manual at service document stations

throughout the shop. The manuals

would be available for review by all

supervisory and inspection personnel,

in lieu of providing a copy to each

individual as required by FAR.

GRANT, January 9, 1995, Exemption

No. 6014

Docket No.: 27432

Petitioner: Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

25.562(c)(5)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To extend Exemption No.

5765, as amended, which exempts

Dornier from the HIC requirements of

§ 25.562(c)(5) for front row passenger

seats located behind bulkheads on

Dornier Model 328 airplanes.

Dornier’s request for this to be a

permanent exemption has been

denied.

PARTIAL GRANT, December 30, 1994,

Exemption No. 5765B

Docket No.: 27650

Petitioner: Reno Air

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

47.49 and 91.203 (a) and (b)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To allow Reno Air to

permit airline operations of U.S.-

registered aircraft in domestic airline

operations without the registration or

airworthiness certifications on board

the aircraft.

GRANT, January 12, 1995, Exemption

No. 6019

Docket No.: 27695

Petitioner: General Electric Aircraft

Engines

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

21.325(b)(1)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To allow twenty export

airworthiness approvals to be issued

for Class I products (engines) that will

be located in Europe.

GRANT, January 12, 1995, Exemption

No. 6016

Docket No.: 27810

Petitioner: Mr. Hector M. Aguilar, Jr.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

65.71(a)(2)

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To enable Mr. Aguilar to

use a sign language interpreter to take

the oral and practical examinations

for the mechanic certificate and

associated ratings, because he is

hearing and speech impaired.

GRANT, January 9, 1995, Exemption

No. 6015

Docket No.: 27849

Petitioner: Ilyushin Aviation Complex

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

25.571(e)(1) and 25.631

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To grant exemption from

the bird speed requirements of

§ 25.571 and to deny exemption from

the bird weight requirements of

§ 25.631.

PARTIAL GRANT, December 30, 1994,

Exemption No. 6011

Docket No.: 27852

Petitioner: Higher Power Aviation, Inc.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

61.55(b)(2); 61.56(c)(1); 61.57(c) and

(d); 61.58 (c)(1) and (d); 61.63(c)(2)

and (d)(2) and (3); 61.65(c), (e)(2) and

(3), and (g); 61.67(d)(2); 61.157(d)(1)

and (2) and (e)(1) and (2); 61.191(c);

and appendix A, part 61.

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit Higher Power

Aviation, Inc., to use FAA-approved

simulators to meet certain flight

experience requirements of part 61.

GRANT, January 20, 1995, Exemption

No. 5986

Docket No.: 27896

Petitioner: Pacific West Training

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

61.55(b)(2); 61.56(c)(1); 61.57(c) and

(d); 61.58(c)(1) and (d); 61.63(c)(2)

and (d)(2) and (3); 61.65(c), (e)(2) and

(3), and (g); 61.67(d)(2); 61.157(d)(1)

and (2) and (e)(1) and (2); 61.191(c);

and appendix A, part 61.

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit Pacific West

Training to use FAA-approved

simulators to meet certain flight

experience requirements of part 61.

GRANT, January 20, 1995, Exemption

No. 5987

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National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Research and Development Programs

Meeting

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a

public meeting at which NHTSA will

describe and discuss specific research

and development projects and requests

suggestions for agenda topics.

DATES AND TIMES: The National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration will hold

a public meeting devoted primarily to

presentations of specific research and

development projects on March 28,

1995, beginning at 1:30 p.m. and ending

at approximately 5:00 p.m. The deadline

for interested parties to suggest agenda

topics is 4:15 p.m. on February 28, 1995.

Questions may be submitted in advance

regarding the Agency’s research and

development projects. They must be

submitted in writing by March 21, 1995

to the address given below. If sufficient

time is available, questions received

after the March 21 date will be

answered at the meeting in the

discussion period. The individual,

group or company asking a question

does not have to be present for the

question to be answered. A consolidated

list of the questions submitted by March

21 will be available at the meeting and

will be mailed to requesters after the

meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Ramada Inn, near Detroit Metro

Airport, 8270 Wickham Rd., Romulus,

MI 48174. Suggestions for specific R&D

topics as described below and questions

for the March 28, 1995, meeting relating

to the Agency’s research and

development programs should be

submitted to George L. Parker, Associate

Administrator for Research and

Development, NRD–01, National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Room 6206, 400 Seventh St. SW,

Washington, DC 20590. The fax number

is 202–366–5930.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA

intends to provide detailed presentation

about its research and development

programs in a series of quarterly public

meetings. The series started in April,

1993. The purpose is to make available

more complete and timely information

regarding the Agency’s research and

development programs. This ninth

meeting in the series will be held on

March 28, 1995.

NHTSA requests suggestions from

interested parties on the specific agenda

topics. NHTSA will base its decisions

about the agenda, in part, on the

suggestions it receives by close of

business at 4:15 p.m. on February 28,

1995. Before the meeting, it will publish

a notice with an agenda listing the

research and development topics to be

discussed. NHTSA asks that the

suggestions be taken from the list below

and that they be limited to six, in

priority order, so that the presentation at

the March 28 R&D meeting can be most

useful to the audience. Please note that

almost all of these topics have been

discussed at the previous eight meetings

to some extent and that presentations at

the ninth meeting will be reports on

current status, results, and plans.

Specific Crashworthiness R&D topics

are: Improved frontal crash protection,

Advanced glazing research, Highway

traffic injury studies, Head and neck

injury research, Lower extremity injury

research, Thorax injury research,

Human injury simulation and analysis,

Crash test dummy component

development, Vehicle agressivity and

fleet compatibility, Upgrade side crash

protection, Upgrade seat and occupant

restraint systems, Child safety research,

and Electric and alternate fuel vehicle

safety.

Specific Crash Avoidance R&D topics

are: Tuck crashworthiness/occupant

protection, Truck tire traction, Portable

data acquisition system for crash

avoidance research, Systems to enhance

EMS response (automatic collision

notification), Vehicle motion

environment, Crash causal analysis,

Guidelines for crash avoidance warning

devices, Longer combination vehicle

safety, Drowsy driver monitoring, Driver

workload assessment, and Performance

guidelines for IVHS systems (approach).

Specific topics from the National

Center for Statistics and Analysis are:

National safety belt use survey, New

data elements for FARS and NASS,

Special crash investigations program

regarding air bag performance,

Pedestrian special NASS data collection

project, and Critical Outcome Data

Evaluation System (CODES)—Linkage of

databases on police accident reporting

and medical outcomes.

Questions regarding research projects

that have been submitted in writing not

later than close of business on march 21,

1995, will be answered as time permits.

A transcript of the meeting, copies of

materials handed out at the meeting,

and copies of the suggestions offered by

commenters will be available for public

inspection in the NHTSA Technical

Reference Section, Room 5108, 400

Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC

20590. Copies of the transcript will then

be available at 10 cents a page, upon

request to NHTSA Technical Reference

Section. The Technical Reference

Section is open to the public from 9:30

a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

NHTSA will provide technical aids to

participants as necessary, during the

NHTSA Industry Research and

Development Meeting. Thus any person

desiring assistance of ‘‘auxiliary aids’’

(e.g. sign-language interpreter,

telecommunication devices for deaf

persons (TTDs), readers taped texts,

braille materials, or large print materials

and/or a magnifying device), please

contact Barbara Coleman on 202/366–

1537 by COB March 21, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Richard L. Stronbotne, Special Assistant

for Technology Transfer Policy and

Programs, Office of Research and

Development, 400 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:

202–366–4730. Fax number: 202–366–

5930

Issued: February 9, 1995.

George L. Parker,

Associate Administrator for Research and

Development.

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