Document ID: PHMSA-2012-0154-0001
Agency: phmsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Actions on Special Permit Applications
Posted Date: 2012-06-19T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 118 (Tuesday, June 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36604-36605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-14692]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety Actions on Special Permit 
Applications

AGENCY: Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice of actions on Special Permit Applications.

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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 of the actions on special permits 
applications in (May to May 2012). The mode of transportation involved 
are identified 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--Passenger-carrying aircraft. 
Application numbers prefixed by the letters EE represent applications 
for Emergency Special Permits. It should be noted that some of the 
sections cited were those in effect at the time certain special permits 
were issued.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 12, 2012.
Donald Burger,
Chief, Special Permits and Approvals Branch.

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     S.P No.              Applicant              Regulation(s)             Nature of special permit thereof
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                                      MODIFICATION SPECIAL PERMIT GRANTED
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10898-M..........  Hydac Corporation        49 CFR 173.302.........  To modify the special permit to authorize
                    Bethlehem, PA.                                    additional accumulators both ASME and PED.

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12706-M..........  RAGASCO AS Raudoss, NO.  49 CFR 173.34; 173.201;  To modify the special permit to authorize
                                             173.301; 173.304.        an alternative test and inspection
                                                                      procedure.
7945-M...........  Pacific Scientific       49 CFR 175.3             Too modify the special permit to authorize
                    Duarte, CA.              173.304(a)(1).           additional 2.2 hazardous materials in non-
                                                                      DOT specification cylinders.
11606-M..........  Safety-Kleen Systems,    49 CFR 173.28(b)(2)....  To modify the special permit to authorize
                    Inc. Plano, TX.                                   double stacking of pallets used for
                                                                      shipping and to authorize approved third
                                                                      party transporters to transport the
                                                                      material authorized in the permit.
14467-M..........  Brenner Tank, LLC Fond   49 CFR 178.345-2.......  To modify the special permit to authorize
                    Du Lac, WI.                                       construction of series 400 cargo tanks
                                                                      using certain materials not authorize in
                                                                      178.345(2) as materials of construction
                                                                      and to add additional UNS Designation
                                                                      tanks.
12135-M..........  Daicel Safety Systems,   49 CFR 173.302(h);       To modify the special permit to authorize a
                    Inc. Hyogo Prefecture    173.302; 173.306(d)(3).  new design of non-DOT specification
                    671-1681.                                         cylinders (pressure vessels) for use as
                                                                      components of automobile vehicle safety
                                                                      systems.
15531-M..........  National Aeronautics     49 CFR Section           To modify the special permit originally
                    and Space                173.302(a).              issued on an emergency basis to authorize
                    Administration (NASA)                             on-going use.
                    Washington, DC.
15442-M..........  Linde Gas North America  49 CFR 180.212(a) and    To modify the special permit originally
                    LLC Murray Hill, NJ.     180.212(b)(2).           issued on an emergency basis to authorize
                                                                      on-going use.
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                                           NEW SPECIAL PERMIT GRANTED
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15393-N..........  Savannah Acid Plant LLC  49 CFR 173.31(d)(1)(vi)  To authorize the transportation in commerce
                    Savannah, GA.                                     of sulfuric acid in tanks cars that have
                                                                      not had both sides of the rupture disc
                                                                      inspected prior to shipment. (mode 2)
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                                        EMERGENCY SPECIAL PERMIT GRANTED
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15634-N..........  SodaStream USA Inc.,     49 CFR 171.2(k)........  To authorize the transportation in commerce
                    Cherry Hill, NJ.                                  of certain used DOT 3AL cylinders that
                                                                      contain CO2, but not necessarily in an
                                                                      amount qualifying as hazardous material.
                                                                      (mode 1)
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                                                     DENIED
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11516-M..........   Request by The Testor Corporation Rockford, IL May 17, 2012. To modify the special permit to
                                           authorize an additional Division 2.1 material.
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[FR Doc. 2012-14692 Filed 6-18-12; 8:45 am]
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