42154 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 150 / Tuesday, August 5, 1997 / Notices of Rulemaking (ARM–1), Federal Description of Relief Sought/ at 5:00 p.m. On Wednesday, September Aviation Administration, 800 Disposition: To allow Bankair’s pilots to 10, 1997 the meeting will begin at 8:30 Independence Avenue, SW., operate Bankair’s aircraft at any U.S. a.m. and end at 3:00 p.m. The meeting Washington, DC 20591. military base that has adopted the will consist of presentations on the FY This notice is published pursuant to criteria contained in the U.S. Standard 2005 Operational Concept, the NAS paragraphs (c), (e), and (g) of § 11.27 of for Terminal Instrument Procedures Architecture Version 3.0, the Flight Part 11 of the Federal Aviation (TERPS) used for determining lower- 2000 Plan and FAA responses to Regulations (14 CFR Part 11). than-standard departure minimums committee recommendations. Issued in Washington, DC, on July 29, using takeoff visibility minimums that Attendance is open to the interested 1997. are less than 1 mile and equal to or public but limited to space available. Donald P. Byrne, greater than the landing visibility Persons wishing to attend the meeting or obtain information should contact Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations. minimums established for those airfields. Lee Olson at the Federal Aviation Dispositions of Petitions Grants, July 22, 1997, Exemption No. Administration, AAR–200, 800 Docket No.: 27188. 6661 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20591 (202) 267–7358. Petitioner: Knighthawk Air Express Docket No.: 21605. Ltd. Members of the public may present a Petitioner: Alaska Airlines, Inc. written statement to the Committee at Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR any time. 61.77(a). 121.574(a) (1) and (3). Description of Relied South/ Description of Relief Sought/ Issued in Washington, DC on July 29, 1997. Disposition: To permit Knighthawk Disposition: To permit the carriage and Jan Brecht-Clark, pilots to be issued special purpose pilot operation of oxygen storage and Acting Director, Office of Aviation Research. certificates to perform pilot duties on a dispensing equipment for medical use [FR Doc. 97–20565 Filed 8–4–97; 8:45 am] civil airplane of U.S. registry, a Falcon by patients requiring emergency or BILLING CODE 4910±13±M 20D, Registration No. N950RA, without continuing medical attention while that airplane meeting the passenger being carried as passengers where the seating configuration and payload oxygen equipment is furnished and DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION capacity requirements of 14 CFR maintained by hospitals treating the 61.77(a). patients, within the states of Alaska or Federal Railroad Administration Grant, July 17, 1997, Exemption No. Washington, subject to certain Petitions for Waivers of Compliance 6660 conditions and limitations. Docket No.: 28079. Grant, July 21, 1997, Exemption No. In accordance with part 211 of Title Petitioner: General Electric Aircraft 3850F 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Engines. Docket No.: 27230. notice is hereby given that the Federal Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Railroad Administration (FRA) received 21.325(b)(1). Petitioner: Era Aviation, Inc. Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR requests for waivers of compliance with Description of Relief Sought/ certain requirements of its safety Disposition: To permit General Electric 135.143(c)(2). Description of Relief Sought/ standards. The individual petitions are Aircraft Engines (GEAE) to obtain export described below, including the parties airworthiness approvals for Class I Disposition: To allow Era to operate certain helicopters under the provisions seeking relief, the regulatory provisions products manufactured under GEAE involved, the nature of the relief being Production Certificate No. 107 at the of part 135 without TSO–C112 (Mode S) transponders. requested, and the petitioners’ Universal Maintenance Center of P.T. arguments in favor of relief. Industri Pesawat Terbang Nurtanio in Grant, July 24, 1997, Exemption No. Bandung, Indonesia. 5718B National Railroad Passenger Grant, July 17, 1997, Exemption No. [FR Doc. 97–20566 Filed 8–4–97; 8:45 am] Corporation (Waiver Petition Docket Number PB–94–3) 6139A BILLING CODE 4910±13±M Docket No.: 28760. The National Railroad Passenger Petitioner: Douglas Aircraft Company/ Corporation (Amtrak) seeks a waiver of McDonnell Douglas Corporation. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION compliance from certain sections of the Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Railroad Power Brakes and Drawbars 25.785(d), 25.807(c)(1), 25.857(e), Federal Aviation Administration regulations, 49 CFR part 232. In 1995, 25.1447(c)(1). FRA granted a waiver (Waiver Petition Research, Engineering and Description of Relief Sought/ Docket Number PB–94–3) to Amtrak to Development (R,E&D) Advisory Disposition: To allow for the extend the frequency for the cleaning, Committee accommodation of up to two oiling, testing, and stenciling (COT&S) supernumeraries immediately aft of the Pursuant to section 10(A)(2) of the of passenger cars equipped with 26–C cockpit, and a crew rest facility Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. brake equipment from the required 36 immediately aft of the smoke barrier and L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is months to 48 months. Amtrak requests crash net, on MD–11 freighter aircraft hereby given of a meeting of the FAA that commuter rail passenger cars equipped with a Class E cargo Research, Engineering and Development owned by the following commuter compartment. Advisory Committee. The meeting will agencies, but operated and maintained Grant, July 14, 1997, Exemption No. be held on September 9–10, 1997 at the by Amtrak under individual contract 6656 Holiday Inn Rosslyn Westpark Hotel, agreements, be under the maintenance Docket No.: 22706. 1900 North Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, conditions set forth in Waiver Docket Petitioner: Bankair, Inc. Virginia. Number PB–94–3: Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR On Tuesday, September 9, 1997 the Connecticut Department of 135.225(e)(1). meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end Transportation—31 coaches Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 150 / Tuesday, August 5, 1997 / Notices 42155

Maryland Rail Commuter—110 coaches Under the proposed reporting All communications concerning these Massachusetts Bay Transportation procedure, track inspectors would proceedings should identify the Authority—358 coaches continue to make their inspections and appropriate docket number (e.g., Waiver North Carolina Department of gather information on handwritten notes Petition Docket Number PB–94–3) and Transportation—14 coaches or, potentially, laptop computers. The must be submitted in triplicate to the Virginia Railway Express—59 coaches proposed filing system would merely Docket Clerk, Office of Chief Counsel, Please note that some of the alter the way in which the inspection FRA, Nassif Building, 400 Seventh commuter agencies’ coaches are cab report is submitted, stored, and Street, SW., Mail Stop 25, Washington, control cars. 49 CFR 229.14 requires that retrieved. Each track inspector would DC 20590. Communications received components added to the passenger car have his/her own personal electronic within 30 days of the date of this notice that enable it to serve as a lead identity. The track inspector would call will be considered by FRA before final locomotive, control the locomotive up a form on NS’s e-mail network, insert action is taken. Comments received after actually providing tractive power, and the pertinent information on the form, that date will be considered as far as otherwise control the movement of the and send it electronically to the regional practicable. All written communications train, are subject to the requirements of offices. Upon receipt via e-mail in the concerning these proceedings are 49 CFR part 229. Therefore, only the regional offices, hard copy reports available for examination during regular brake system components not subject to would be placed into files along the business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.) at FRA’s the requirements of 49 CFR 229.14 are same lines as are currently used. In the temporary docket room located at 1120 to be considered in this petition for any future, NS states that it will develop a Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 7051, cab control car. separate database to store all track Washington, DC 20005. Amtrak declares that the commuter inspection reports. Issued in Washington, D.C. on July 29, rail equipment is maintained in NS declares that its policy prohibits 1997. accordance to all applicable FRA the sharing and duplication of Grady C. Cothen, Jr., requirements, Association of American passwords, thus preserving the Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Railroad’s maintenance practices, and uniqueness of each user’s identity. Once Standards and Program Development. Amtrak’s standard maintenance the inspection report is completed by [FR Doc. 97–20514 Filed 8–4–97; 8:45 am] the inspector, the computer system procedures. Amtrak also contends that BILLING CODE 4910±06±P the service conditions on the commuter would not accept subsequent alterations car fleets are considered to be consistent or modifications of the report. The with those conditions under which computer system would allow DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Amtrak’s four year test for COT&S was subsequent access to such reports, or conducted. compilations of information generated Federal Railroad Administration therefrom, but would limit this access to Norfolk Southern Corporation (Waiver a read-only basis. Notice of Application for Approval of Petition Docket Number RST–96–3) NS anticipates that, in virtually all Discontinuance or Modification of a The Norfolk Southern Corporation instances, the record of inspection will Railroad Signal System or Relief From (NS) seeks a waiver from the be prepared and entered into the the Requirements of Title 49 Code of requirements of 49 CFR Part 213.241 to electronic system on the inspection Federal Regulations Part 236 allow it to submit and maintain track date. However, NS states that it is inspection records via an electronic possible for the input process to be Pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal system. delayed in rare instances, such as when Regulations (CFR) part 235 and 49 In its petition, NS refers to the the system mainframe computer is taken U.S.C. App. 26, the following railroads provisions of § 213.241 which require off-line for periodic software have petitioned the Federal Railroad that each record of an inspection be maintenance, when the reporting Administration (FRA) seeking approval prepared on the day the inspection is inspector is called out to respond to an for the discontinuance or modification made and signed by the person making emergency situation, or when the of the signal system or relief from the the inspection. NS believes that these inspector is located at a site where he/ requirements of 49 CFR part 236 as provisions do not specifically mandate she does not have access to a terminal. detailed below. a paper-based recordkeeping system, NS asks that it be granted the one-day Block Signal Application (BS–AP)–No. and states that to the extent that this grace period for these rare 3432 part implies such a requirement, it be circumstances. granted a waiver to substitute electronic NS believes that the granting of the Applicant: CSX Transportation, records for paper ones. NS further petition would provide positive benefits Incorporated, Mr. R. M. Kadlick, Chief requests that it be permitted to input the for all parties involved and an Engineer Train Control, 500 Water records of inspection within one day’s immediate increase in efficiency while Street (S/C J–350), Jacksonville, Florida time of the date on which the inspection reducing costs. 32202. is made. Interested parties are invited to CSX Transportation, Incorporated NS states that the use of the electronic participate in these proceedings by seeks approval of the proposed system would allow the railroad to submitting written views, data, or modification of the traffic control significantly reduce the volume of paper comments. FRA does not anticipate system, on the single main track, at reports (estimated to average scheduling a public hearing in Haines City, Florida, milepost A– approximately 600 reports each week) connection with these proceedings since 828.38, Sanford Subdivision, and the associated handling costs. NS the facts do not appear to warrant a Jacksonville Service Lane, consisting of also states that the electronic reporting hearing. If any interested party desires the discontinuance and removal of system could be effected without cost to an opportunity for oral comment, they controlled signals 106RA and 106LA. any party and without disrupting or should notify FRA, in writing, before The reason given for the proposed destroying the integrity of the present the end of the comment period and changes is to eliminate facilities no record system. specify the basis for their request. longer needed in present day operation,