
[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65761-65762]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26623]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Summary Notice No. PE-2012-40]


Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption received.

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SUMMARY: This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief 
from specified requirements of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) part 25. 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 information in the summary is intended to affect the legal 
status of the petition or its final disposition.

DATES: Comments on this petition must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before November 19, 2012.

ADDRESSES: You may send comments identified by Docket Number FAA-2012-
0956 using any of the following methods:
     Government-wide rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for sending your 
comments electronically.
     Mail: Send comments to the Docket Management Facility; 
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
     Fax: Fax comments to the Docket Management Facility at 
202-493-2251.

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     Hand Delivery: Bring comments to the Docket Management 
Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

Privacy: We will post all comments we receive, without change, to 
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information you 
provide. Using the search function of our docket Web site, anyone can 
find and read the comments received into any of our dockets, including 
the name of the individual sending the comment (or signing the comment 
for an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on 
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78).
    Docket: To read background documents or comments received, go to 
http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to the Docket Management 
Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Menkin, ANM-113, 
Standardization Branch, Federal Aviation Administration, Transport 
Airplane Directorate, 1601 Lind Ave. SW., Renton, WA 98057; email 
michael.menkin@FAA.gov; 425-227-2793; fax: 425-227-1320; or Andrea 
Copeland, ARM-200, Office of Rulemaking, Federal Aviation 
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW.; Washington, DC 20591; 
email andrea.copeland @faa.gov; (202) 267-8081.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 22, 2012.
Lirio Liu,
Director, Office of Rulemaking.

Petition for Exemption

    Docket No.: FAA-2012-0956.
    Petitioner: The Boeing Company.
    Section of 14 CFR Affected: Sec.  25.785(j), 25.795(b)(2), (c)(1) 
and (c)(3), 25.809(a), 25.810(a)(1) 25.857(e), and 25.1447(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought. The petitioner requests relief from:
    1. Restrictions on crew members carried on airplanes with Class E 
cargo compartments to allow carriage of up to eleven supernumeraries on 
the Boeing 767-2C freighter and to allow them access to the Class E 
cargo compartment for the care and inspection of animals;
    2. The requirement for escape slides for emergency exists greater 
than six feet above the ground by using inertial reel descent devices 
from the forward entry and service doors instead of slides;
    3. The requirement that the contact area for inertial reel descent 
devices be seen from closed doors;
    4. The requirement that handholds are provided inside the 
accessible main deck cargo compartment;
    5. Providing a means to prevent passenger incapacitation in the 
cabin resulting from smoke, fumes, or noxious gases of an explosive or 
incendiary device;
    6. The requirement for a designated location where a bomb or other 
explosive device could be placed to best protect flight-critical 
structures and systems from damage in the case of detonation (least 
risk bomb location);
    7. The requirement that the passenger cabin be designed to 
facilitate searches for an explosive or incendiary device; and
    8. The requirement that an auto-presenting oxygen dispensing unit 
is provided for each supernumerary that is seated or is inside the 
cargo compartment during flight. Oxygen masks are presented manually 
instead.

[FR Doc. 2012-26623 Filed 10-29-12; 8:45 am]
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