[Federal Register: August 8, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 152)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Notice of Application for Approval of Discontinuance or
Modification of a Railroad Signal System or Relief From Requirements
Pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 235 and
49 U.S.C. 20502(a), the following railroad has petitioned the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) seeking approval for the discontinuance
or modification of the signal system or relief from the requirements of
49 CFR part 236 as detailed below.
Docket Number: FRA-2006-25083.
Applicant: Union Pacific Railroad, Mr. John C. Estes, Jr.,
Superintendent Locomotive, 1400 Douglas Stop 1050, Omaha, Nebraska
68179.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) seeks relief from the
requirements of the Rules, Standards and Instructions, Title 49 CFR,
part 236, Section 236.588, Periodic test. Specifically, UP is seeking
to change the requirement as defined in the Technical Manual for Signal
and Train Control Rules which requires disassembly of the receiver bar
junction box during periodic inspection.
Applicant's justification for relief: Harmon, the manufacturer of
UP's Ultra Cab II equipment does not recommend the removal of the
junction box cover, except for replacement of the cab signal
discriminators (receiver bars). Electrical qualification and integrity
tests are conducted from the LCU ( Logic Control Unit) located in the
locomotive cab area. Harmon and UP believe that removing the junction
box cover during periodic inspections will, over time, degrade the
integrity of the junction box and reduce overall reliability of the
Harmon Ultra Cab II equipment.
Any interested party desiring to protest the granting of an
application shall set forth specifically the grounds upon which the
protest is made, and include a concise statement of the interest of the
party in the proceeding. Additionally, one copy of the protest shall be
furnished to the applicant at the address listed above.
All communications concerning this proceeding should be identified
by the docket number and must be submitted to the Docket Clerk, DOT
Central Docket Management Facility, Room PI-401, 400 7th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20590-0001. Communications received within 45 days of
the date of this notice will be considered by the FRA before final
action is taken. Comments received after that date will be considered
as far as practicable. All written communications
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concerning these proceedings are available for examination during
regular business hours (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) at the above facility. All
documents in the public docket are also available for inspection and
copying on the internet at the docket facility's Web site at http://dms.dot.gov
.
FRA wishes to inform all potential commenters that anyone is able
to search the electronic form of all comments received into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78) or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.
FRA expects to be able to determine these matters without an oral
hearing. However, if a specific request for an oral hearing is
accompanied by a showing that the party is unable to adequately present
his or her position by written statements, an application may be set
for public hearing.
Issued in Washington, DC on August 1, 2006.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program
Development.
[FR Doc. E6-12805 Filed 8-7-06; 8:45 am]
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