Document ID: FAA-2009-0740-0001
Agency: faa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Fuel Drain Valves
Posted Date: 2009-08-04T04:00Z

[Federal Register: August 4, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 148)]
[Notices]               
[Page 38680-38681]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

 
Fuel Drain Valves

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of re-issuance of Technical Standard Order (TSO) C76, 
Fuel Drain Valves.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the re-issuance of TSO-C76, Fuel Drain 
Valves, telling manufacturers seeking TSO authorization (TSOA) or 
letter of design approval (LODA) what minimum performance standard 
(MPS) their Fuel Drain Valve must first meet for approval and 
identification with the appropriate TSO markings. In the event that you 
feel a need to comment on the re-issuance of TSO-C76, please do so to 
the address listed below.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 3, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Send all comments regarding the re-issuance of the Fuel 
Drain Valve TSO to: Federal Aviation Administration, Aircraft 
Certification Service, Aircraft Engineering Division, Technical 
Programs and Continued Airworthiness Branch, 950 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., 
5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Attn.: Jim Kabbara, AIR-120. You may 
hand deliver comments to: Federal Aviation Administration, Aircraft 
Certification Service, Aircraft Engineering Division, AIR-100, 950 
L'Enfant Plaza, SW., 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Kabbara, AIR-120, Federal Aviation 
Administration, Aircraft Certification Service, Aircraft Engineering 
Division, AIR-100, 950 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., 5th Floor, Washington, DC 
20024. Telephone: (202) 385-6335; Fax: (202) 385-6475; or via e-mail 
at: jim.kabbara@faa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

    Interested persons are invited to comment on the re-issuance of the 
TSO-C76 by submitting written data, views, or arguments to the above-
specified address. Your comments should stipulate ``Comments, re-
issuance of TSO-C76.'' All comments received may be examined after the 
comment closing date by visiting Federal Aviation Administration, 
Aircraft Certification Service, Aircraft Engineering Division, AIR-100, 
950 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024, weekdays 
except Federal holidays, between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The Director, 
Aircraft Certification Service, will consider all comments received on 
or before the closing date before issuing the final notice of re-
issuance.

Background

    This TSO is being re-issued in its entirety. We have cancelled TSO-
C76a because the specific requirements that make up the minimum 
performance standard necessary to have the Fuel Drain Valves be marked 
as TOS approved, provided no technical value. Those requirements have 
resulted in manufacturers seeking TSO approval of their Fuel Drain 
Valves to experience difficulties in meeting the MPS. We have deemed 
the requirements to be

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arbitrary, resulting in our re-issuing of the original TSO-C76.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 30, 2009.
Susan J.M. Cabler,
Assistant Manager, Aircraft Engineering Division, Aircraft 
Certification Service.
[FR Doc. E9-18575 Filed 8-3-09; 8:45 am]

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