Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Applications for Modification of Exemption

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Applications for

Modification of Exemption

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration, DOT.

ACTION: List of Applications for Modification of Exemptions.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the procedures governing the application

for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of

Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Part 107,

Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous

Materials Safety has received the applications 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. Requests for modifications of exemptions

(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 exemptions to facilitate

processing.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 1, 1998.

ADDRESS COMMENTS TO: Dockets Unit, Research and Special Programs

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 self-addressed stamped postcard showing the exemption number.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Copies of the applications are available for inspection in the Dockets

Unit, Room 8426, Nassif Building, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC.

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Modification

Application No. Docket No. Applicant of exemption

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4844-M...................... ................................... Kidde-Graviner Ltd., Colnbrook, 4844

Slough, Berks, UK (See

Footnote 1).

9419-M...................... ................................... FIBA Technologies, Inc., 9419

Westboro, MA (See Footnote 2).

10458-M..................... ................................... Marsulex Inc., Sudbury, ON (See 10458

Footnote 3).

11483-M..................... ................................... Autoliv, Autoflator AB, 11483

Vargarda, SW (See Footnote 4).

11667-M..................... ................................... Weldship Corporation, 11667

Bethlehem, PA (See Footnote 5).

11790-M..................... ................................... United States Enrichment 11790

Corporation, Bethesda, MD (See

Footnote 6).

11872-M..................... RSPA-1997-2584..................... Polymet Alloys, Inc., Saginaw, 11872

AL (See Footnote 7).

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(\1\) To modify the exemption to provide for rail, air and cargo vessel as additional modes of transportation

for use in transporting non-DOT specification foreign made steel cylinders.

(\2\) To modify the exemption to provide for minimum wall thickness to be reduced to 0.299 inch for DOT

Specification 3AAX or 3T cylinders and increase the quantity of cylinders retested to 1,000 annually.

(\3\) To modify the exemption to provide for Sulfur dioxide, Division 2.2 as an additional class of material for

transportation in DOT Specification 111A100W2 tank cars.

(\4\) To modify the exemption to provide for an additional designed non-DOT specification, refillable, high

pressure cylinders charged with Division 2.2 material for transportation as part of modules for automobile

airbag systems.

(\5\) To authorize the modification of personnel qualifications for retesting of DOT-3AAX and 3T cylinders.

(\6\) To modify the exemption to provide for alternative material to be used in tubing of non-specification

cylinders similar to DOT 5A and 5B specification cylinder without required markings for use in transporting

uranium hexafluoride, Class 7.

(\7\) To modify exemption to provide for tarp covered vehicles for transportation of water reactive, solid,

Division 4.3 in flexible intermediate bulk containers.

This notice of receipt of applications for modification of

exemptions is published in accordance with Part 107 of the Hazardous

Materials Transportations Act (49 U.S.C. 1806; 49 CFR 1.53(e)).

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 10, 1998.

J. Suzanne Hedgepeth,

Director, Office of Hazardous Materials Exemptions and Approvals.

[FR Doc. 98-10070 Filed 4-15-98; 8:45 am]

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