# Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Delays in Processing Special Permit Applications
**AGENCY:**
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, DOT.
**ACTION:**
List of Application Delayed more than 180 days.
**SUMMARY:**
In accordance with the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), PHMSA is publishing the following list of special permit applications that have been in process for 180 days or more. The reason(s) for delay and the expected completion date for action on each application is provided in association with each identified application.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Ann Mazzullo, Office of Hazardous Materials Special Permits and Approvals, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001, (202) 366-4535.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Key to “Reason for Delay”**
1. Awaiting additional information from applicant.
2. Extensive public comment under review.
3. Application is technically complex and is of significant impact or precedent-setting and requires extensive analysis.
4. Staff review delayed by other priority issues or volume of special permit applications.
**Meaning of Application Number Suffixes**
N—New application.
M—Modification request.
X—Renewal.
PM—Party to application with modification request.
Issued in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2006.
R. Ryan Posten,
Chief, Special Permits Program, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Special Permits & Approvals.
| Application number | Applicant | Reason for delay | Estimated date of completion |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | |
| 14229-N | Senex Explosives, Inc., Cuddy, PA | 4 | 11-30-2006 |
| 14239-N | Marlin Gas Transport, Inc., Odessa, FL | 1 | 11-30-2006 |
| 14237-N | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc., (ATMI), Danbury, CT | 1 | 12-31-2006 |
| 14257-N | Origin Energy American Samoa, Inc., Pago Pago, AS | 4 | 11-30-2006 |
| 14285-N | INO Therapeutics LLC, Port Allen, LA | 4 | 11-30-2006 |
| 14318-N | Lockheed Martin Technical Operations, Vandenberg AFB, CA | 4 | 12-31-2006 |
| 14314-N | North American Automotive Hazmat Action Committee | 4 | 11-30-2006 |
| 14310-N | Praxair, Danbury, CT | 4 | 10-31-2006 |
| 14316-N | VOTG North America, Inc., West Chester, PA | 4 | 12-31-2006 |
| 14341-N | Baker Petrolite, Sugar Land, TX | 4 | 10-31-2006 |
| 14337-N | NKCF Co., Ltd. Jisa-Dong, Kangseo-Gu Busan | 4 | 11-30-2006 |
| 14343-N | Valero St. Charles, Norco, LA | 4 | 10-31-2006 |
| 14330-N | Chemical & Metal Industries Inc. Hudson, CO | 4 | 12-31-2006 |
| 14298-N | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA | 4 | 10-31-2006 |
| 14266-N | NCF Industries, Inc. Santa Maria, CA | 3 | 11-30-2006 |
| 14277-N | Ascus Technologies, Ltd., Cleveland, OH | 3, 4 | 12-31-2006 |
| | | | |
| 12677-M | Austin Powder Illinois Company, Cleveland, OH | 1 | 10-31-2006 |
| 5749-M | E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Wilmington, DE | 4 | 12-31-2006 |
| 12277-M | Indian Sugar and General Engineering Corporation, Haryana | 4 | 12-31-2006 |
| 10481-M | M-1 Engineering Limited, Bradfrod, West Yorkshire | 4 | 12-31-2006 |
| 11202-M | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (NNS), Newport News, VA | 4 | 10-31-2006 |