[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 198 (Tuesday, October 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 59233]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-25896]


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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.

New Jersey Transit Rail Operations

[Docket Number FRA-1999-6356]

    The New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJTR) requests an extension 
of time for a previously granted temporary waiver of compliance with 
the Passenger Equipment Safety Standards, 49 CFR part 238.235, for 
seventy (70) Comet I, low level door passenger coaches. The previously 
granted waiver requiring that each power operated door that is 
partitioned from the passenger compartment shall be equipped with a 
manual override adjacent to that door will expire on December 31, 2003. 
NJTR expected to retire the 70 cars after receiving 265 new Comet V 
cars and 160 re-manufactured Comet II cars. NJTR indicates that there 
have been numerous delays in the delivery of the replacement equipment 
and requests that the waiver extension be granted until a sufficient 
number of these cars are delivered to maintain their service.
    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 (e.g., Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA-
1999-6356) and must be submitted to the Docket Clerk, DOT Central 
Docket Management Facility, Room Pl-401, 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 October 7, 2003.
Grady C. Cothen,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. 03-25896 Filed 10-10-03; 8:45 am]
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