[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 17948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5055]


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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.

Canadian National Railway Company

[Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA-2006-24224]

    The Canadian National Railway Company (CN) on behalf of its wholly 
owned subsidiaries, Illinois Central Railroad Company, Wisconsin 
Central, Ltd, Grand Trunk and Western Railroad Company, Chicago Central 
& Pacific Railroad Company, Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railroad 
Company, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company, and the Duluth Missabe 
& Iron Range Railroad Company (hereinafter ``CN'') seeks a waiver of 
compliance with the Locomotive Safety Standards, 49 CFR, 229.27(a)(2), 
and 229.29 (a), as they pertain to the requirement to clean, repair, 
and test airbrake equipment associated with ``Canac'' remote control 
equipment installed on the locomotive. CN requests to change the time 
interval requirements for the additional Canac equipment from biennial 
(736 days) to every 4 years (1472 days).
    The request, if granted, would allow the additional Canac equipment 
to receive attention at the same time as the 26 L type brake equipment 
previously wavered under the petition identified as docket number FRA-
2005-21325. According to the petitioner, the four-year maintenance 
period for the remote control brake equipment is the manufacturer's 
recommendation, and the four-year interval has been adopted by 
Transport Canada, as required maintenance interval for 26 L type Canac 
remote control locomotives operating in Canada.
    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 (FRA-2006-24224) and must be submitted to the 
Docket Clerk, DOT Docket Management Facility, Room PL-401 (Plaza 
Level), 400 7th Street, SW., 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 March 31, 2006.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E6-5055 Filed 4-6-06; 8:45 am]
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