[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 128 (Thursday, July 5, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 36752]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-13028]


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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) has received a request for a waiver of compliance from 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.

Carolina Coastal Railway, Inc.

[Docket Number FRA-2007-28420]

    The Carolina Coastal Railway, Inc. (CLNA) seeks a permanent waiver 
of compliance from Control of Alcohol and Drug Use, 49 CFR Part 219 
Subpart G, which requires a railroad to conduct random alcohol and drug 
testing. CLNA has less than 16 hours of service employees and 
previously had no joint operations, but they plan to lease from Norfolk 
Southern Corporation (NS) nearly 140 miles of track from Raleigh to 
Plymouth, NC, on June 15, 2007. The CLNA will operate over NS tracks to 
reach their yards for interchange potentially at Chocowinity, NC, and 
at Raleigh, NC. CSX Transportation (CSX) will have overhead trackage 
rights over a 16-mile segment of the track, although there will be 
temporal separation since CLNA's operation will be during daytime hours 
and CSX's operations will be restricted to nighttime hours.
    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-
2007-28420) and must be submitted to the Docket Clerk, DOT Central 
Docket Management Facility, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 
Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 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.
    FRA wishes to inform all potential commenters that 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) or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC on June 28, 2007.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E7-13028 Filed 7-3-07; 8:45 am]
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