[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 179 (Friday, September 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 54802]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18484]


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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 favour of relief.

Strategic Transportation Services

[Docket Number FRA-2005-21961]

    Strategic Transportation Services, on behalf of EXEL Switching 
Services, seeks a waiver of compliance with the Safety Glazing 
Standards 49 CFR 223.9(a), which requires Locomotives, including yard 
locomotives, built or rebuilt after June 30, 1980, must be equipped 
with certified glazing in all locomotive cab windows, and with the 
requirements of the Safety Appliance Standards 49 CFR 231.3(c)(1) & 
(c)(4), which requires Each locomotive used in switching service must 
have four (4) switching steps & Switching steps must be supported by a 
bracket at each end and fastened to the bracket by two bolts or rivets 
of at least one-half (\1/2\) inch diameter or by a weldment of at least 
twice the strength of a bolted attachment. Strategic Transportation 
Services requests the waiver for a ``Rail King'' mobile railcar mover 
that they intend to utilize to switch railcars inside the Exel 
facility, business park, in Houston, TX. The Rail King mobile railcar 
mover described in the waiver request is not equipped with FRA Type I & 
II certified glazing material and only has two switching steps that are 
attached to the vehicle by weldment.
    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-
2005-21961) and must be submitted to the Docket Clerk, DOT Central 
Docket Management Facility, Room Pl-401, Washington, DC 20590-0001. 
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 September 12, 2005.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. 05-18484 Filed 9-15-05; 8:45 am]
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