[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 214 (Monday, November 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65029-65030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-18619]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2006-23687]


Notice of Petition for Approval

    In accordance with Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 
236.913(e)(1), notice is hereby given that the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) has received a petition for approval of a Product 
Safety Plan (PSP) submitted pursuant to 49 CFR part 236, subpart H. The 
individual petition is described below, including the party seeking 
approval, the requisite docket number, and a brief summary of the 
petition.

BNSF Railway Company

    The BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) submitted a petition for approval 
of a PSP for its Electronic Train Management System (ETMS). BNSF 
asserts that the PSP demonstrates ETMS has been designed in a safe 
manner and that it supports BNSF's assessment that railroad operations 
with ETMS are as safe as, or safer than, railroad operations without 
ETMS. The PSP provides descriptions of the ETMS itself, ETMS safety 
process and analyses, validation and verification processes used during 
development of ETMS, and operational and support requirements and 
procedures.
    Interested parties are invited to participate in this safety review 
by providing written information or comments pertinent to FRA's 
consideration of the above petition for approval of the PSP. All 
communications concerning this approval should identify the appropriate 
docket number (FRA-2006-23687) and may be submitted by any of the 
following methods:

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     Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for 
submitting comments on the DOT electronic docket;
     Fax: 202-493-2251;
     Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401, 
Washington, DC 20590-0001; or
     Hand delivery: Room PL-401 on the plaza level of the 
Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9 
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Communications received within 30 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 on behalf of an 
association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the 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 November 1, 2006.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E6-18619 Filed 11-3-06; 8:45 am]
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