[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 6, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46675-46676]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-20021]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration


Petition for Waiver of Compliance

    In accordance with part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR), notice is hereby given that the Federal Railroad Administration 
(FRA) received a request for a waiver of compliance with certain 
requirements of its safety standards. The individual petition is 
described below, including the party seeking relief, the regulatory 
provisions involved, the nature of the relief being requested, and the 
petitioner's arguments in favor of relief.

Maryland Department of Transportation Waiver Petition Docket Number 
FRA-2003-15193

    Maryland Department of Transportation (MARC) seeks a temporary 
waiver of compliance with the Passenger Equipment Safety Standards, 49 
CFR part 238 section 103 as it pertains to fire Safety Analysis; 
Section 303 and 305 as they pertain to exterior and interior calendar 
day inspection; Section 307 as it pertains to periodic inspection; and 
Section 311 as it pertains to periodic brake equipment single car test, 
for nine retired passenger coaches built by the Budd Company in 1949. 
If the waiver is granted, MARC will perform required inspections with 
the exception of the fire Safety Analysis to the nine cars and store 
the equipment

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in serviceable condition at its Brunswick, MD, facility for utilization 
in the event of a Public Emergency. During the day the passenger cars 
utilized to operate MARC's Brunswick line stored at Union Station, 
Washington, DC, in the event of a Public Emergency that closed or 
blocked access to Union Station, MARC could use any locomotive 
available to haul these cars. The plan would be to operate the cars 
between the extreme ends of the Washington, DC, Metro system and MARC's 
Martinsburg, WV, and Frederick, MD, stations.
    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 (FRA-2003-15193) and must be submitted to the 
Docket Clerk, DOT Docket Management Facility, Room PL-401 (Plaza 
Level), 400 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20590. Communications 
received within 45 days of the date of this notice will be considered 
by FRA before final action is taken. Comments received after that date 
will be considered as far as practicable. All written communications 
concerning these proceedings are available for examination during 
regular business hours (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) at the above facility. All 
documents in the public docket are also available for inspection and 
copying on the Internet at the docket facility's web site at 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). The Statement 
may also be found at http://dms.dot.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 30, 2003.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. 03-20021 Filed 8-5-03; 8:45 am]
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