[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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