[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 98 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 29553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10279]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2004-18894]


Union Pacific Railroad Company; Notice of Public Hearing and 
Extension of Comment Period

    The Union Pacific Railroad Company has petitioned the Federal 
Railroad Administration (FRA) seeking approval of the proposed 
discontinuance and removal of the automatic block signal system, on the 
single main track, between Wellton, Arizona, milepost 770.8 and 
Arlington, Arizona, milepost 861.3, on the Gila and Phoenix 
Subdivisions, in the El Paso area, a distance of approximately 91 
miles.
    This block signal application proceeding is identified as Docket 
No. FRA-2004-18894.
    The FRA has issued a public notice seeking comments of interested 
parties and has conducted its own field investigation in this matter. 
After examining the carrier's proposal and the field report, FRA has 
determined that a public hearing is necessary before a final decision 
is made on this proposal. FRA is also extending the comment period to 
one week beyond the date of the public hearing. If information received 
at the public hearing warrants the need to extend the comment period 
further, a separate notice will be published indicating such extension.
    Accordingly, a public hearing is hereby set for 9 a.m. mountain 
standard time, on Wednesday, June 29, 2005, in the Arizona Corporation 
Commission Conference Room, Suite 300, of the Southwest Gas Building, 
located at 2200 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004. 
Interested parties are invited to present oral statements at the 
hearing.
    The hearing will be an informal one and will be conducted in 
accordance with Rule 25 of the FRA Rules of Practice (49 CFR 211.25), 
by a representative designated by the FRA.
    The hearing will be a non adversary proceeding and, therefore, 
there will be no cross-examination of persons presenting statements. 
The FRA representative will make an opening statement outlining the 
scope of the hearing. After all initial statements have been completed, 
those persons wishing to make brief rebuttal statements will be given 
the opportunity to do so in the same order in which they made their 
initial statements. Additional procedures, if necessary for the conduct 
of the hearing, will be announced at the hearing.
    In addition, FRA is extending the comment period to July 7, 2005. 
All communications concerning these proceedings should identify the 
appropriate docket number (e.g., Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA-
2004-18894) and must be submitted to the Docket Clerk, DOT Docket 
Management Facility, Room PL-401 (Plaza Level), 400 7th Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. 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 May 17, 2005.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety, Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. 05-10279 Filed 5-20-05; 8:45 am]
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