[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 149 (Friday, August 3, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43321-43322]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15144]


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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 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.

Union Pacific Railroad Company

[Docket Number FRA-2007-28339]

    Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) seeks a waiver of compliance 
from certain requirements of 49 CFR Part 232, Brake System Safety 
Standards for Freight and Other Non-Passenger Trains and Equipment, 
End-of-Train Devices; and from 49 CFR Part 215, Railroad Freight Car 
Safety Standards. Specifically, UP seeks relief to permit trains 
received at the U.S./Mexico border at Laredo, Texas, from the Kansas 
City Southern de Mexico Railway to move from the interchange point 
without performing the regulatory tests and inspections specified in 
Part 215 and section 232.205(a)(1) at that location. UP proposes moving 
the trains from the border at Milepost 412.5 on the Laredo subdivision 
to the UP yard at Port Laredo, Texas (a distance of 11.6 miles), where 
FRA-required inspections will be performed. According to UP, they have 
been operating in this fashion since October 1996, under the authority 
of a letter from the Director of FRA's Office of Safety Assurance and 
Compliance.

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    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-
2007-28339) and must be submitted in triplicate to the Docket Clerk, 
DOT Central Docket Management Facility, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    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 DOT 
Central Docket Management Facility, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Room 
W12-140, West Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590-0001. 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 July 30, 2007.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
 [FR Doc. E7-15144 Filed 8-2-07; 8:45 am]
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