[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 120 (Wednesday, June 24, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30203-30204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-14825]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration


Notice of Informational Filing

    For informational purposes only, the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) is providing notice that it has received an 
informational filing from the BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) to conduct 
testing of Configuration IV of BNSF's Electronic Train Management 
System (ETMS) submitted pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) 236.913. The informational filing is described below, 
including the submitting party and the requisite docket number where 
the informational filing and any related information may be found. The 
document is available for public inspection; however, FRA is not 
accepting public comment on the document.

BNSF Railway Company

[Docket Number FRA-2006-23687]

    BNSF has submitted an informational filing to FRA to begin 
operational testing of ETMS Version IV on BNSF's Stampede Subdivision. 
This testing will allow BNSF to obtain the necessary assessments 
required to amend BNSF's currently approved Product Safety Plan (PSP) 
for ETMS Version I for a future submittal to FRA. In addition, this 
testing will allow BNSF to substantiate the ETMS technology on mountain 
grade territory with freight operations. The informational filing has 
been placed under Docket Number FRA-2006-23687 and is available for 
public inspection.
    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.).

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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 June 17, 2009.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E9-14825 Filed 6-23-09; 8:45 am]
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