[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 126 (Tuesday, July 1, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39181-39182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16557]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration


Petition for Designation of Repair Locations

    In accordance with Part 232 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR), notice is hereby given that the Federal Railroad Administration 
(FRA) received a request for designating repair locations as prescribed 
in Sec.  232.15 (g).

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company

[Docket Number FRA-2002-13651]

    Pursuant to 49 CFR 232.17, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company 
(CP), on behalf of their Soo Line Railroad Subsidiary, seeks FRA's 
approval to designate locations on their Soo Line property where brake 
system repairs will be performed, as prescribed in Sec.  232.15(g) of 
the Federal Regulations, Brake System Safety Standards for Freight and 
Other Non-Passenger Trains and Equipment. CP has identified the 
following sites as the designated repair locations:

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            Location                Milepost/ Subdivision           Distance                   Facility
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                                              St. Paul Service Area
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Harvey, ND......................  MP 396.5, Portal Sub....  152.5 mi from Portal...  Repair track.
Enderlin, ND....................  MP 257.3, Carrington Sub  139.2 mi. from Harvey..  Road truck.
Thief River Falls, MN...........  MP 307.4, Detroit Lakes   79.1 mi. from Noyes....  Road truck.
                                   Sub.
Glenwood, MN....................  MP 120.3, Elbow Lake Sub  137.1 mi. from Enderlin  Road truck.
St. Paul Yard, MN...............  MP 0, Merriam Park Sub..  127.5 mi. froM Glenwood  Repair track.
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                                              Chicago Service Area
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Lacrosse, WI....................  MP 281.2, Tomah Sub.....  130.6 mi. from St. Paul  Road truck.
Portage, WI.....................  MP 178.2, Tomah Sub.....  103 mi. from Lacrosse..  Road truck.
Milwaukee, WI...................  MP 85.4, Watertown Sub..  92.8 mi. from Portage..  Repair track.
Bensenville, IL.................  MP 15.5, Elgin Sub......  104.8 mi. from           Repair track
                                                             Milwaukee.
Latta, IN.......................  MP 204.2, Latta Sub.....  131.7 mi. from           Road truck.
                                                             Louisville.
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    CP states that all repair track locations will have full-time 
qualified car men on duty and these locations will be equipped with 
yard air plants, jacking pads and single car test devices. They may not 
be enclosed repair shops. All road truck locations are serviced 
regularly by qualified car men with fully equipped repair trucks that 
include compressors, jacks, and single car test devices. These 
locations may or may not have jacking pads. All of the above locations 
have tracks that are readily and safely accessible for the car men to 
make repairs. All locations are commonly serviced by through trains, 
reducing the need for additional switching and the related hazards. All 
locations can make repairs to most part 215, 231 and 232 defects to 
include performing single car air tests. All road truck locations are 
in reasonable proximity to their home base, which will accommodate the 
availability of material, effective and timely repair, and 
accessibility in adverse weather conditions. Furthermore, designating 
the above locations as the repair locations will not diminish CP's 
ability to effect emergency repairs at other locations, where cars 
cannot be safely moved to a designated location, including, but not 
limited to, cars set off as a result of wayside inspections and 
trackside warning detectors.
    Pursuant to 49 CFR 232.17, CP affirms that a copy of their petition 
to designate the above locations as their repair locations has been 
provided to the following labor organizations that represent the 
employees working for the CP: Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the United Transportation 
Union.
    Interested parties are invited to submit written comments to FRA. 
All written communications concerning this petition should identify the 
appropriate

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docket number (e.g., Docket Number FRA-2002-13651) and must be 
submitted to the Docket Clerk, DOT Docket Management Facility, Room PL-
401 (Plaza Level), 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Comments 
received within 30 days of the date of this notice will be considered 
by FRA before any final action is taken. Although FRA does not 
anticipate scheduling a public hearing in connection with these 
proceedings, 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 written 
communications concerning these proceedings are available for 
examination during regular business hours (9 a.m.--5 p.m.).
    All documents in the public docket are also available for 
inspection and copying on the Internet at the docket facility's Web 
site http://dms.dot.gov . Anyone is able to search the electronic form 
of all comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the 
individual submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted 
on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may 
review DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register 
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78) at 
http://dms.dot.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC on June 24, 2003.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. 03-16557 Filed 6-30-03; 8:45 am]
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