[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17994-17995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07484]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA-2013-0059]
Notice of Petition for Extension of Waiver of Compliance
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This document provides the public notice that Long Island Rail
Road (LIRR) petitioned FRA for an extension of relief from certain
regulations concerning material modification of railroad interlocking
systems.
DATES: FRA must receive comments on the petition by May 30, 2025. FRA
will consider comments received after that date to the extent
practicable.
ADDRESSES:
Comments: Comments related to this docket may be submitted by going
to https://www.regulations.gov and following the online instructions
for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
docket number. All comments received will be posted without change to
https://www.regulations.gov; this includes any personal information.
Please see the Privacy Act heading in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document for Privacy Act information related to any
submitted comments or materials.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and follow the
online instructions for accessing the docket.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Johnson, Railroad Safety
Specialist, FRA Signal, Train Control, and Crossings Division,
telephone: 406-210-3608, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), this document provides the public notice that by
letter dated February 4, 2025, LIRR petitioned FRA for an extension of
a waiver of compliance from certain provisions of the Federal railroad
safety regulations contained at 49 CFR part 236 (Rules, Standards, and
Instructions Governing the Installation, Inspection, Maintenance, and
Repair of Signal and Train Control Systems, Devices, and Appliances).
The relevant Docket Number is FRA-2013-0059.
Specifically, LIRR seeks an extension of relief from Sec. 236.312,
Movable bridge, interlocking of signal appliances with bridge
devices,\1\ pertaining to the DB drawbridge on the Montauk Branch in
Long Island City, New York. The existing relief applies to the previous
removal of ``all associated locking devices from the interlocking
signal circuitry due to the installation of straight rail over both
bridge[s,] which permanently rendered the bridges fixed in place and no
longer operable.'' LIRR states that the locking devices are therefore
no longer necessary.
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\1\ In its February 4, 2025, petition, LIRR requested relief
from Sec. 235.5(a)(3), which provides changes of signal systems
that require filing of an application. In FRA's April 27, 2020,
decision letter, LIRR was granted relief from Sec. 236.312, and FRA
assumes that LIRR is requesting relief from this same regulation.
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A copy of the petition, as well as any written communications
concerning the petition, is available for review online at
www.regulations.gov.
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 and a public hearing, they
should notify FRA, in writing, before the end of the comment period and
specify the basis for their request.
Communications received by May 30, 2025 will be considered by FRA
before final action is taken. Comments received after that date will be
considered if practicable.
Privacy Act
Anyone can search the electronic form of any written communications
and comments received into any of FRA's dockets by the name of the
individual submitting the comment (or signing the document, if
submitted on
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behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). Under 5 U.S.C.
553(c), DOT solicits comments from the public to inform its processes.
DOT posts these comments, without edit, including any personal
information the commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as
described in the system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can
be reviewed at https://www.transportation.gov/privacy. See also https://www.regulations.gov/privacy-notice for the privacy notice of
regulations.gov.
Issued in Washington, DC.
John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-07484 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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