[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 130 (Friday, July 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35296-35297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17165]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Summary Notice No. PE-96-31]


Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; 
Dispositions of Petitions Issued

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of petitions for exemption received and of dispositions 
of prior petitions.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the 
application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 
CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions 
seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation 
Regulations (14 CFR Chapter I), dispositions of certain petitions 
previously received, and corrections. The purpose of this notice is to 
improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of 
FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the 
inclusion or omission of informaion in the summary is intended to 
affect the legal status of any petition or its final disposition.


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DATES: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before July 25, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on any petition in triplicate to: Federal 
Aviation Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel, Attn: Rule Docket 
(AGC-200), Petition Docket No. ________, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, D.C. 20591.
    Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet 
address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c3adb3b1aea0aeb7b083aea2aaafedabb2eda5a2a2eda4acb5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d2bca2a0bfb1bfa6a192bfb3bbbefcbaa3fcb4b3b3fcb5bda4">[email protected]</span></a>.
    The petition, any comments received, and a copy of any final 
disposition are filed in the assigned regulatory docket and are 
available for examination in the Rules Docket (AGC-200), Room 915G, FAA 
Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, D.C. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. D. Michael Smith, Office of Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal Aviation 
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591; 
telephone (202) 267-7470.
    This notice is published pursuant to paragrahs (c), (e), and (g) of 
Sec. 11.27 of Part 11 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR Part 
11).

    Issued in Washington, D.C. on July 1, 1996.
Joseph A. Conte,
Acting Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petition for Exemption

    Docket No.: 25886.
    Petitioner: Washoe County Sheriff's Office.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.118.
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow Washoe County to reimburse 
members of the Sheriff's Air Squadron for fuel, oil, and maintenance 
costs that occur during official search missions. In addition, the 
exemption, if granted, would permit the Sheriff's Air Squadron to 
transport personnel and equipment to the scene of a rescue.

    Docket No.: 28545.
    Petitioner: United Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.135(a)(3).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow United Airlines, Inc., to 
use electronic digital technology to present certain maintenance 
information and instructions to ground operations and management 
personnel without meeting the requirement to have the date of the last 
revision on each page of the information and instructions.

    Docket No.: 28569.
    Petitioner: Rocky Mountain Helicopters.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 133.1(d), 133.35(a), and 
133.45(e).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Rocky Mountain Helicopters 
to conduct external-hoist, high-altitude rescue operations using two 
Agusta A109K2 helicopters that are type certificated in the normal 
category and are not capable of maintaining hover with one engine 
inoperative.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 5010.
    Petitioner: Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation 
Standards/Department of the Air Force.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.119 (b) and (c), 91.159, 
91,175 (a) and (b), and 91.179(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend and amend 
Exemption No. 5118, as amended, which permits the FAA's Office of 
Aviation Standards (AVN) to deviate from certain flight rules required 
by subpart B of part 91 while conducting flight inspections of air 
navigation facilities and instrument approach procedures. The amendment 
allows the Department of the Air Force's Flight Inspection Center, 
which operates jointly with the FAA's AVN, to conduct operations under 
the authority of Exemption No. 5118, as amended.

Grant, May 16, 1996, Exemption No. 5118B

    Docket No.: 25060.
    Petitioner: Douglas Aircraft Company.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.197.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption No. 
4936, as amended, which permits the Douglas Aircraft company (DAC) to 
conduct training of DAC's pilot flightcrew personnel while operating 
under special flight permits issued for the purpose of production 
flight testing.

Grant, April 18, 1996, Exemption No. 4936B

    Docket No.: 25336.
    Petitioner: United Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.697(a)(3), 121.697 (b) 
through (d), and 121.709(b)(3).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption No. 
5121, as amended, which permits United Airlines, Inc., to use 
computerized signatures to satisfy the airworthiness release signature 
requirements of Secs. 121.697(a)(3), 121.697 (b) through (d), and 
121.709(b)(3) in lieu of physical signatures.

Grant, April 18, 1996, Exemption No. 4121D

    Docket No.: 25988.
    Petitioner: Soloy Corporation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.19(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend and amend 
Exemption No. 5172, as amended, which permits the Soloy Corporation to 
apply for a supplemental type certificate, rather than a new type 
certificate, for a design change that would convert the Cessna Caravan 
from a one-engine aircraft to a two-engine aircraft. The amendment you 
request would revise the name of the exemption holder from Soloy Dual 
Pac, Inc., to Soloy Corporation to reflect a merger of the two 
companies.

Grant, April 18, 1996, Exemption No. 5172C

[FR Doc. 96-17165 Filed 7-3-96; 8:45 am]
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