[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 38 (Tuesday, February 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 13156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04378]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2008-0010]


Petition for Waiver of Compliance

In accordance with Part 211 of Title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations, this document provides the public notice that by a
document dated January 18, 2013, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Company (NWP), the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, and the
Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (Petitioners) have jointly
petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for an exception
to a condition in a previously granted application for an approval of
the discontinuance and removal of NWP's interlocking signal system on
three drawbridges--including the Brazos Drawbridge--in Docket Number
FRA-2008-0010. By letter dated April 3, 2009, FRA had approved NWP's
block signal application subject to certain conditions, including the
condition that the approval was for freight movements only and should
be revisited prior to any passenger operations over the three
drawbridges.
Petitioners request this exception for a one-time, one-day,
roundtrip, chartered passenger train movement on June 23, 2013, over
the Brazos Drawbridge. The charter train will operate from Sacramento
to the Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, CA, and then back to Sacramento. Petitioners have agreed to a service operating plan for this
charter train movement that includes the safety of train operations,
equipment, passenger boarding/alighting, staffing, access/egress
considerations, dispatching, and all relevant safety precautions that
have been established for freight train movements. NWP's general
manager will be responsible for the charter train's operations over NWP
track between Brazos Junction and the Sears Point Raceway, including
across the Brazos Drawbridge.
A copy of the petition, as well as any written communications
concerning the petition, is available for review online at
www.regulations.gov and in person at the U.S. Department of
Transportation's (DOT) Docket Operations Facility, 1200 New Jersey Ave.
SE., W12-140, Washington, DC 20590. The Docket Operations Facility is
open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
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 and may be submitted by any of the following
methods:
Web site: [www.regulations.gov]. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 202-493-2251.
Mail: Docket Operations Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., W12-140, Washington, DC
20590.
Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W12-140,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays.
Communications received by April 12, 2013 will be considered by FRA
before final action is taken. Comments received after that date will be
considered as far as practicable.
Anyone is able to search the electronic form of any written
communications and comments received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the comment (or signing the document,
if submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.).
See [www.regulations.gov] for the privacy notice
of regulations.gov or interested parties may review DOT's complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11,
2000 (65 FR 19477).

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2013.
Robert C. Lauby,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Regulatory and Legislative
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2013-04378 Filed 2-25-13; 8:45 am]
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