[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 174 (Monday, September 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 52078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-20757]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration


Notice of Informational Filing

    In accordance with Sec.  236.913 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR), notice is hereby given that the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) has received an informational filing from the 
Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) to permit field testing of the railroad's 
processor-based train control system. The informational filing is 
described below, including the requisite docket number where the 
informational filing and any related information may be found. The 
document is also available for public inspection; however, FRA is not 
accepting public comments.

Norfolk Southern Railway

[Docket Number FRA-2008-0083]

    NS has submitted an informational filing to FRA to permit field 
testing of the railroad's processor-based train control system 
identified as Optimized Train Control (OTC) Positive Train Control 
(PTC) System. The informational filing addresses the requirements under 
49 CFR 236.913(j)(1).
    Specifically, the informational filing contains a description of 
the NS OTC PTC product and an operational concepts document pursuant to 
49 CFR 236.913(j)(1). The NS OTC PTC system is designed to assist train 
crews in situational awareness, prevent authority limit and over-speed 
violations, provide open switch protection in non-signaled Track 
Warrant Control territory, and to prevent equipped trains from entering 
the limits without authorization of on-track authority granted to 
employees. NS desires to commence field testing on or after September 
1, 2008, or as soon as practicable thereafter, contingent upon FRA's 
acceptance and approval of their informational filing.
    Interested parties are invited to review the informational filing 
and associated documents at the DOT Docket Management facility during 
regular business hours (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590. All documents in the public docket 
are also available for inspection and copying on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
    Anyone is able to search the electronic form of any written 
communications received into any of our dockets by name of the 
individual submitting the document (or signing the document, if 
submitted 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).

    Issued in Washington, DC on September 3, 2008.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E8-20757 Filed 9-5-08; 8:45 am]
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