[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 124 (Tuesday, June 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34841-34842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16469]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Petition for Waiver of Compliance
In accordance with Part 211 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), notice is hereby given that the Federal Railroad Administration
(FRA) received a request for a waiver of compliance with certain
requirements of its safety standards. The individual petition is
described below, including the party seeking relief, the regulatory
provisions involved, the nature of the relief being requested, and the
petitioner's arguments in favor of relief.
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Canadian National Railway; Docket Number FRA-1999-5756
The Canadian National Railway (CN) seeks a permanent waiver of
compliance with the Locomotive Safety Standards, 49 CFR Part 229.47(a),
which requires each car body type road locomotive be equipped with an
emergency brake valve adjacent to each end exit door, that these brake
pipe valve locations shall be stencilled as ``EMERGENCY BRAKE VALVE''
or shall be identified on adjacent badge plate. The CN seeks this
waiver for 178 car body locomotives built between 1985 and 1990,
utilized to haul freight that have never been equipped with an
emergency brake valve at the rear exit door. CN states that they do not
believe that the emergency brake valve at the rear exit of these
locomotives is needed.
Interested parties are invited to participate in these proceedings
by submitting written views, data, or comments. FRA does not anticipate
scheduling a public hearing in connection with these proceedings since
the facts do not appear to warrant a hearing. If any interested party
desires an opportunity for oral comment, they should notify FRA, in
writing, before the end of the comment period and specify the basis for
their request.
All communications concerning these proceedings should identify the
appropriate docket number (e.g., Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA-
1999-5756) and must be submitted in triplicate to the Docket Clerk, DOT
Central Docket Management Facility, Room PL-401, Washington, DC. 20590-
0001. Communications received within 45 days of the date of this notice
will be considered by FRA before final action is taken. Comments
received after that date will be considered as far as practicable. All
written communications concerning these proceedings are available for
examination during regular business hours (9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.) at DOT
Central Docket Management Facility, Room PL-401 (Plaza Level), 400
Seventh Street SW, Washington. All documents in the public docket are
also available for inspection and copying on the Internet at the docket
facility's web site at http://dms.dot.gov.
Issued in Washington, DC on June 23, 1999.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program
Development.
[FR Doc. 99-16469 Filed 6-28-99; 8:45 am]
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