Notice2023-01455
Hazardous Materials: Notice of Application for Special Permit; Extension of Comment Period
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Published
January 25, 2023
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
On December 5, 2022, PHMSA announced a notice to provide awareness and solicit comments regarding a special permit application currently under review by PHMSA in consultation with the Federal Railroad Administration. In this notice, PHMSA is extending the comment period from January 4, 2023, until February 21, 2023.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 4881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01455]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2022-0081]
Hazardous Materials: Notice of Application for Special Permit;
Extension of Comment Period
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Application for a new special permit (21283-N); extension of
comment period.
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SUMMARY: On December 5, 2022, PHMSA announced a notice to provide
awareness and solicit comments regarding a special permit application
currently under review by PHMSA in consultation with the Federal
Railroad Administration. In this notice, PHMSA is extending the comment
period from January 4, 2023, until February 21, 2023.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
February 21, 2023. Comments received after that date will be considered
to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the docket number
PHMSA-2022-0081 by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> Fax: (202) 493-2251.
<bullet> Mail: Docket Management System, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Dockets Operations, M-30, Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
<bullet> Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket
Operations, M-30, Ground Floor, Room W12-140 in the West Building, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
docket number (PHMSA-2022-0081) for this notice at the beginning of the
comment. All comments will be posted without change to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> including any personal information provided. If
sent by mail, comments must be submitted in duplicate. Persons wishing
to receive confirmation of receipt of their comments must include a
self-addressed stamped postcard.
Docket: To access background documents or comments received, the
dockets are available at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> or the DOT's Docket
Operations Office at the above addresses.
Confidential Business Information: Confidential Business
Information (CBI) is commercial or financial information that is both
customarily and actually treated as private by its owner. Under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from
public disclosure. If your comments to this notice contain commercial
or financial information that is customarily treated as private, and
that is relevant or responsive to this notice, it is important that you
clearly designate the submitted comments as CBI. Please mark each page
of your submission containing CBI as ``PROPRIETARY.'' PHMSA will treat
such marked submissions as confidential under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA).
Submissions containing CBI should be sent to Tony Gale,
Transportation Specialist, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, (202)
366-4535, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3c4f4c595f555d504c594e5155484f7c585348125b534a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a7d4d7c2c4cec6cbd7c2d5caced3d4e7c3c8d389c0c8d1">[email protected]</span></a>, PHMSA, East Building, PHH10, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Any commentary PHMSA receives
that is not specifically designated as CBI will be placed in the public
docket for this rulemaking.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tony Gale, Transportation Specialist,
Office of Hazardous Materials, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366-4535,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4b383b2e28222a273b2e3926223f380b2f243f652c243d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d7a4a7b2b4beb6bba7b2a5babea3a497b3b8a3f9b0b8a1">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 5, 2022, PHMSA announced a
notice to provide awareness and solicit comments regarding a special
permit application to authorize the transportation in commerce of
cryogenic ethane in DOT-113C120W9 and DOT-113C120W tank cars via rail
freight.\1\ The notice informed the public that the subject matter of
the special permit--i.e., transportation of cryogenic flammable liquids
in rail tank cars--raises issues similar to the transportation of
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by rail, a matter for which multiple
rulemakings are pending at the agency. PHMSA received five requests to
extend the comment period to allow additional time for interested
persons to prepare comments. In response to those requests, PHMSA is
extending the comment period by 48 days until February 21, 2023. This
extension provides the public additional time to provide extensive
comments on the notice.
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\1\ 87 FR 74468 (Dec. 5, 2022).
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2023, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Donald P. Burger,
Chief, General Approvals and Permits Branch.
[FR Doc. 2023-01455 Filed 1-24-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-60-P
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