[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 5718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1425]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2003-15432]


BNSF Railway Company; Notice of Public Hearing and Extension of 
Comment Period

    The BNSF Railway Company has petitioned the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) seeking approval to expand the existing waiver, 
granted on June 23, 2004, to include the area from Fort Worth, Texas, 
milepost 346.67, to Arkansas City, Kansas, milepost 264.11, on the Fort 
Worth and Red Rock Subdivisions, a distance of approximately 329 miles. 
This expansion request is identified as Docket No. FRA-2003-15432.
    The FRA had issued a public notice seeking comments of interested 
parties. After examining the railroad's proposal and the comments 
received, 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 even further, a separate notice will be published 
indicating such extension.
    Accordingly, a public hearing is hereby set for 1 p.m. (Eastern 
Standard Time), on Thursday, February 23, 2006, at the Wyndham Hotel, 
Vista Ballroom C, 1400 M Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005. Interested 
parties are invited to present oral statements at the hearing. The 
hearing will be informal and will be conducted by a representative 
designated by the FRA, in accordance with Rule 25 of the FRA Rules of 
Practice (49 CFR part 211.25). 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 March 2, 2006. 
All communications concerning these proceedings should identify the 
appropriate docket number (e.g., Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA-
2003-15432) 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 and entered into 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 January 30, 2006.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E6-1425 Filed 2-1-06; 8:45 am]
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