[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 10, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48559-48560]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-18196]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration


Notice of Application for Approval of Discontinuance or 
Modification of a Railroad Signal System or Relief From Requirements

    Pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 235 and 
49 U.S.C. 20502(a), the following railroads have petitioned the Federal 
Railroad Administration (FRA) seeking approval for the discontinuance 
or modification of the signal system or relief from the requirements of 
49 CFR part 236 as detailed below.

Docket Number FRA-2004-18644

    Applicant: New Jersey Transit, Mr. William B. Duggan, Vice 
President and General Manager, Rail Operations, One Penn Plaza East, 
Newark, New Jersey 07105-2246.
    New Jersey Transit (NJT) seeks temporary relief from the 
requirements of Part 236, Section 236.566, of the Rules, Standard and 
Instructions, to the extent that NJT be permitted to operate non-
equipped, New York Susquehanna and Western (NYS&W) steam locomotive 
Number 142, in automatic train control territory on NJT's Raritan 
Valley Line, between milepost 18.2, near Cranford, New Jersey and 
milepost 52.2, at High Bridge, New Jersey. The relief is requested for 
Saturday and Sunday, September 18 and 19, 2004, in celebration of the 
``Dunellen Railroad Days'' event for the City of Dunellen, New Jersey, 
and for Saturday and Sunday, October 2 and 3, 2004, in celebration an 
event for the City of Westfield, New Jersey.
    Applicant's justification for relief: The three NJT lines are 
equipped with automatic block signals and operate under NORAC Rules 251 
and 261, and the steam excursion train movements for each event would 
be limited to no more than four trips daily, would not exceed 50 mph, 
and would establish an absolute block ahead of each movement.
    Any interested party desiring to protest the granting of an 
application shall set forth specifically the grounds upon which the 
protest is made, and contain a concise statement of the interest of the 
party in the proceeding. Additionally, one copy of the protest shall be 
furnished to the applicant at the address listed above.
    All communications concerning this proceeding should be identified 
by the docket number and must be submitted to the Docket Clerk, DOT 
Central Docket Management Facility, Room PL-401 (Plaza Level), 400 7th 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    Communications received within 30 days of the date of this notice 
will be considered by the 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.
    FRA wishes to inform all potential commenters that anyone is able 
to search the electronic form of all

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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) or you may visit 
http://dms.dot.gov.
    FRA expects to be able to determine these matters without an oral 
hearing. However, if a specific request for an oral hearing is 
accompanied by a showing that the party is unable to adequately present 
his or her position by written statements, an application may be set 
for public hearing.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on August 2, 2004.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Acting Associate Administrator for Safety.
[FR Doc. 04-18196 Filed 8-9-04; 8:45 am]
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