[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 107 (Thursday, June 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23990-23991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10204]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA-2003-15010]
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 Canadian Pacific
Kansas City Limited (CPKC) petitioned FRA for relief from certain
regulations concerning extraterritorial dispatching.
DATES: FRA must receive comments on the petition by July 7, 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: Curtis Dolan, Railroad Safety
Specialist, FRA Motive Power & Equipment Division, telephone: 334-274-
6354, 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 received March 18, 2025, CPKC petitioned FRA for an extension of
a waiver of compliance from certain provisions of the Federal railroad
safety regulations contained at 49 CFR part 241 (United States
Locational Requirements for Dispatching of United States Rail
Operations). FRA assigned the petition Docket Number FRA-2003-15010.
CPKC requests relief from 49 CFR 241.7(c), Fringe border
dispatching, to allow the continuation of Canadian dispatching of three
locations in the U.S.: (1) 1.8 miles of the Windsor Subdivision between
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and Detroit, Michigan, U.S.; \1\ and (2) two
track segments totaling 23.44 miles on the Newport Subdivision between
Richford, Vermont, and East Richford, Vermont, U.S., and between North
Troy, Vermont, and Newport, Vermont, U.S.\2\ CPKC notes that all
locations are dispatched by the Operations Centre in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada. In support of its request, CPKC states that ``in the
approximately twenty-two years since the original waiver was granted,
CPKC has operated safely on the Windsor Subdivision and has operated
safely on the Newport Subdivision since the acquisition of this
territory in 2020.'' CPKC adds that there have not been ``substantial
change[s] to operating practices, programs or procedures.'' CPKC
provided with its petition copies of certain policies and procedures,
such as operating rules and alcohol and drug procedures, that were
updated since CPKC's February 28, 2024, renewal request.
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\1\ This section on the Windsor Subdivision is defined in
appendix A to part 241, List of Lines Being Extraterritorially
Dispatched in Accordance with the Regulations Contained in 49 CFR
part 241, Revised as of October 1, 2002.
\2\ The track segments on the Newport Subdivision cross the
U.S./Canada border at three separate locations.
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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 July 7, 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 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. 2025-10204 Filed 6-4-25; 8:45 am]
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