[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 20 (Monday, February 1, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 4833-4834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2253]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

49 CFR Part 244

[FRA Docket No. FRA-1999-4985, Notice No. 2]
RIN 2130-AB24


Regulations on Safety Integration Plans Governing Railroad 
Consolidations, Mergers, Acquisitions of Control, and Start Up 
Operations; Correction

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) corrects the docket 
number entry identified in the proposed rule that was published in the 
Federal Register on December 31, 1998, 63 FR 72225, Dec. 31, 1998, 
regarding Regulations on Safety Integration Plans Governing Railroad 
Consolidations, Mergers, Acquisitions of Control, and Start Up 
Operations. The previous docket number for the agency's proposed rule 
was ``FRA Docket No. SIP-1.'' The new docket number is ``FRA-1999-
4985.'' FRA informs the public that it will nevertheless receive and 
file comments from interested persons in the administrative record for 
this rulemaking action that identified the proposed rule as FRA Docket 
No. SIP-1. FRA also advises the regulated community that this notice 
does not affect the Surface Transportation Board's (STB or Board) 
docket number for comments on the Board's proposed rule in the joint 
rulemaking proceeding.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jon Kaplan, Trial Attorney, Office of 
Chief Counsel, FRA, 1120 Vermont Avenue, Mailstop 10, Washington, DC 
20590 (telephone: (202) 493-6053).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 18, 1998, FRA and the STB issued 
a joint rule proposing regulations for the development and 
implementation of safety integration plans (SIPs) by railroads seeking 
to engage in certain specified merger, consolidation, or acquisition of 
control transactions with another railroad. 63 FR 72225, Dec. 31, 1998. 
FRA identified the docket number corresponding to its rulemaking action 
as ``FRA Docket No. SIP-1'' in the caption and address section of the 
document. Due to consolidation of FRA's docket facilities with those of 
other DOT operating administrations into a centralized docket 
management system, however, FRA's docket numbering system has changed. 
The central docket facility styles dockets received in its electronic 
docket system as, for example, ``FRA-1999-xxxx.'' For this reason, the 
docket number assigned to FRA's portion of the SIP rule is now ``FRA-
1999-4985,'' and commenters should use this docket number when 
commenting on FRA's proposed rule. (Interested parties should continue 
to refer to STB Ex Parte No. 574 when commenting on the Board's 
proposed rule.) FRA will, however, receive and docket comments filed by 
interested persons responding to the agency's proposed rule that 
identified the action as ``FRA Docket No. SIP-1.''


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    Issued in Washington, DC on January 26, 1999.
Michael T. Haley,
Deputy Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 99-2253 Filed 1-29-99; 8:45 am]
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