[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 125 (Friday, June 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36584-36585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-14542]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket No. FRA-2008-0009, Notice No. 2]


Declaration of Emergency Event

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of declaration of emergency event.

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SUMMARY: On June 11, 2008, the Administrator of the FRA determined that 
the recent flooding around the Midwest region of the United States

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constituted an emergency event as related to railroad operations. 
Accordingly, the Administrator activated the Emergency Relief Docket. 
This document provides notice of the Administrator's determination.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 11, 2008, the Administrator of the 
FRA determined that the recent flooding around the Midwest region of 
the United States constituted an emergency event pursuant to 49 CFR 
211.45(c) and that public safety would benefit from providing the 
railroad industry with operational relief directly related to that 
emergency. Accordingly, the Administrator activated the Emergency 
Relief Docket (docket number FRA-2008-0009) and in accordance with 49 
CFR 211.45(g), petitions received in that docket pursuant to this 
emergency event will be handled according to the requirements of 49 CFR 
211.45(g)-(j).
    Interested parties are reminded that the procedures in 49 CFR 
211.45 provide for expedited review and processing of emergency waiver 
petitions. Accordingly, in accordance with 49 CFR 211.45(h), any person 
wishing to comment on petitions for emergency waivers should submit 
their comments to the docket within 72 hours from the close of business 
on the day that the petition is posted in the public docket. Any person 
desiring a public hearing on any petition being processed in accordance 
with the emergency waiver procedures must notify FRA of such request in 
their comments submitted to the docket. 49 CFR 211.45(i).
    Interested persons may submit their comments using any of the 
following methods:
    (1) E-mail to FRA at [email protected];
    (2) Fax to FRA at: 202-493-6309; or
    (3) Hand deliver or expedited delivery to the Docket Clerk, Docket 
Operations Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue, SE., W12-140, Washington, DC 20590 or electronically via the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
    All communications concerning any petition in the Emergency Relief 
Docket should identify the appropriate docket number (e.g., FRA-2008-
0009).

Privacy

    Anyone is able to search 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 
665, Number 7, Pages 19477-78). The statement may also be found at 
http://www.dot.gov/privacy.html.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2008.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
 [FR Doc. E8-14542 Filed 6-26-08; 8:45 am]
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