[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 14, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 11929]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-4581]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration


Notice of Product Development

    Although not required, notice is hereby given that the Federal 
Railroad Administration (FRA) has received a Notice of Product 
Development (NPD) from the Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP), 
pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 
236.913(d)(1) for Phases 1 and 2 of the development of a Communications 
Based Train Control (CBTC) system. A brief summary of the NPD, 
including the party submitting it, and the requisite docket number are 
as follows.

Union Pacific Railroad Company

[Waiver Docket Number FRA-2007-27322]

    UP submitted an NPD of its CBTC system for Phases 1 and 2. The 
proposed CBTC system is a safety-critical, microprocessor-based system, 
designed to provide the enforcement of movement authorities and speed 
restrictions for CBTC-equipped locomotives, and provide the locomotive 
engineer an assist function to optimize train handling. Phase 1 of the 
CBTC is a non-vital safety overlay based on BNSF's Electronic Train 
Management System, previously approved under Docket Number FRA-2006-
23687. Phase 2 of the CBTC implements the functionality of Phase 1 
using a vital onboard architecture.
    Interested parties are invited to review the notification and 
associated documents at the following locations:
     Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for 
a simple search on the DOT electronic docket site; and/or
     DOT Central Docket Management Facility, 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.
    All documents in the public docket are also available for 
inspection and copying on the Internet at the docket facility's Web 
site, 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 March 7, 2007.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
 [FR Doc. E7-4581 Filed 3-13-07; 8:45 am]
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