[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 211 (Tuesday, November 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 56918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26434]


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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 BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) and the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) to conduct joint testing of 
Version V of BNSF's Electronic Train Management System (ETMS) submitted 
pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 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; National Railroad Passenger Corporation

[Docket Number FRA-2006-23687]

    BNSF and Amtrak have submitted an informational filing to FRA to 
begin joint operational testing of ETMS Version V on BNSF's Fort Worth, 
Red Rock, and Stampede Subdivisions. This joint testing will allow BNSF 
to obtain the necessary assessments required to amend its currently 
approved Product Safety Plan for ETMS Version I for a future submittal 
to the FRA. In addition, this joint testing will allow BNSF and Amtrak 
to substantiate the ETMS system with mixed freight and passenger 
operations, and on mountain grade territories. The informational filing 
has been placed in 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.). 
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) or at http://www.dot.gov/privacy.html.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 26, 2009.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E9-26434 Filed 11-2-09; 8:45 am]
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