[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 111 (Friday, June 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29164-29165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14260]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. RSI-95-1, Notice No. 2]
Regulatory Reinvention; Notice of Railroad Safety Advisory
Committee (RSAC) Task Acceptance
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of Railroad Safety Advisory Committee Task Acceptance.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the President's March 4, 1995, directive regarding
regulatory reinvention, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
conducted an intensive review of its regulations and committed itself
to eliminating and reinventing over 95 pages of regulations from the
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) by June 1, 1996. Consistent with the
President's initiative on reinventing government, FRA chartered a new
Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) for consensual rulemaking and
deliberation on key railroad safety issues. At the Committee's
inaugural meeting on April 1-2, 1996, the RSAC accepted regulatory
reinvention of: power brake systems for freight equipment (49 CFR Part
232), the Track Safety Standards
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(49 CFR Part 213), and the Radio Standards and Procedures (49 CFR Part
220).
In addition, FRA has decided that the Passenger Equipment Safety
Standards and Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness working groups,
which currently are addressing the reinvention of 49 CFR Part 223,
Safety Glazing Standards, and the steam locomotive standards working
group, which currently is addressing the reinvention of 49 CFR Part
230, Steam Locomotive Inspection, should all continue their operation
under the aegis of the RSAC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vicky McCully, FRA, 400 7th Street,
S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590 at (202) 366-6569; Lisa Levine, Office of
Chief Counsel, FRA, 400 7th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590 at
(202) 366-0621; or Grady C. Cothen, Jr., Deputy Associate Administrator
for Safety Standards Program Development, FRA, 400 7th Street, S.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20590 at (202) 366-0897.
Issued in Washington, D.C. on May 30, 1996.
Donald M. Itzkoff,
Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-14260 Filed 6-6-96; 8:45 am]
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