[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 45 (Thursday, March 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14876-14877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-05323]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2009-0078]


Petition for Waiver of Compliance

    In accordance with Part 211 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR), this document provides the public notice that by a document 
dated February 5, 2013, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad 
Association (ASLRRA), on behalf of the Garden City Western Railway 
Company, the Georgia Southern Railway Company, the Great Smoky 
Mountains Railroad, the Mississippi Central Railroad Company, the Port 
Bienville Railroad, and Railserve, has petitioned the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) for an amended waiver of compliance from certain 
provisions of the Federal hours of service laws contained at 49 U.S.C. 
21103(a)(4), which require a train employee to receive 48 hours off 
duty after initiating an on-duty period for 6 consecutive days. FRA 
assigned the petition Docket Number FRA-2009-0078.
    In its petition, ASLRRA seeks to amend Exhibit A of its previously 
filed petition for extension of the waiver to add the six railroads 
referenced above, which did not participate in ASLRRA's original 
petition for a waiver extension. FRA had granted ASLRRA's petition for 
a waiver extension in a letter dated February 27, 2012. The waiver 
allows a train employee to initiate an on-duty period each day for 6 
consecutive days followed by 24 hours, rather than 48 hours, off duty.
    Each railroad that seeks to be added to the waiver has executed a 
compliance letter, which attests that the railroad has complied with 
all of the employee consent requirements that FRA had originally set 
forth in its initial decision letter dated March 5, 2010. Additionally, 
each railroad will maintain in its files for FRA inspection the 
underlying employee consent or employee representative consent 
documents.
    A copy of the petition, as well as any written communications 
concerning the petition, is available for review online at 
www.regulations.gov and in person at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation's Docket Operations Facility, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., 
W12-140, Washington, DC 20590. The Docket Operations Facility is open 
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    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.

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    All communications concerning these proceedings should identify the 
appropriate docket number and may be submitted by any of the following 
methods:
     Web site: http://www.regulations.gov/. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Operations Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., W12-140, Washington, DC 
20590.
     Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.
    Communications received by April 22, 2013 will be considered by FRA 
before final action is taken. Comments received after that date will be 
considered as far as practicable.
    Anyone is able to search the electronic form of any written 
communications and comments received into any of our dockets by the 
name of the individual submitting the comment (or signing the document, 
if submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). 
See http://www.regulations.gov/#!privacyNotice for the privacy notice 
of regulations.gov or interested parties may review DOT's complete 
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 
2000 (65 FR 19477).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2013.
Robert C. Lauby,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Regulatory and Legislative 
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2013-05323 Filed 3-6-13; 8:45 am]
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