64626 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 214 / Friday, November 5, 2004 / Notices 

satisfy the signature requirements of the 

‘‘Hours of Service of Railroad 

Employees.’’ The railroad maintains that 

the renewal is in the best interests of all 

parties, in that, it will continue to 

reduce unnecessary paperwork and the 

costs associated therewith while 

providing the railroads, its employees 

and the FRA with a superior level of 

information on a more timely than 

signed paper records. 

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 of their request. 

All communications concerning these 

proceedings should identify the 

appropriate docket number (FRA–2004–

19391) and must be submitted to the 

Docket Clerk, DOT Docket Management 

Facility, Room PL–401 (Plaza Level), 

400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590. Communications received within 

45 days of the date of this notice will 

be considered by FRA before final 

action is taken. Comments received after 

that date will be considered as far as 

practicable. All written communications 

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.

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). The 

Statement may also be found at http://

dms.dot.gov.

Issued in Washington, DC on November 1, 

2004. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety.

[FR Doc. 04–24769 Filed 11–4–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

In accordance with part 211 of title 49 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 

notice is hereby given that the Federal 

Railroad Administration (FRA) received 

a request for a waiver of compliance 

with certain requirements of its safety 

standards. The individual petition is 

described below, including the party 

seeking relief, the regulatory provisions 

involved, the nature of the relief being 

requested, and the petitioner’s 

arguments in favor of relief. 

Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad (MRSR) 

(Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA–

2004–19102) 

The Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad 

(MRSR) seeks a waiver of compliance 

from certain provisions of the Safety 

Glazing Standards, 49 CFR part 223, 

which requires certified glazing in all 

windows. This request is for one 

Southern Pacific Caboose, number 1751. 

The caboose was built in November of 

1956. The railroad is in the process of 

restoring the caboose. When it is 

complete, it will be used only in 

excursion services and for display 

purposes. 

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. 

All communications concerning these 

proceedings should identify the 

appropriate docket number (e.g., Waiver 

Petition Docket Number FRA–2004–

19102) and must be submitted to the 

Docket Clerk, DOT Docket Management 

Facility, Room PL–401 (Plaza Level), 

400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590. Communications received within 

45 days of the date of this notice will 

be considered by FRA before final 

action is taken. Comments received after 

that date will be considered as far as 

practicable. All written communications 

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. 

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). The 

Statement may also be found at http://

dms.dot.gov.

Issued in Washington, DC on November 1, 

2004. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety.

[FR Doc. 04–24767 Filed 11–4–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

In accordance with part 211 of Title 

49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 

notice is hereby given that the Federal 

Railroad Administration (FRA) received 

a request for a waiver of compliance 

with certain requirements of its safety 

standards. The individual petition is 

described below, including the party 

seeking relief, the regulatory provisions 

involved, the nature of the relief being 

requested, and the petitioner’s 

arguments in favor of relief. 

Union Pacific Railroad Company 

(Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA–

2004–19199) 

The Union Pacific Railroad Company 

(UP) seeks a waiver of compliance from 

certain provisions of 49 CFR part 232, 

Brake System Safety Standards for 

Freight and Other Non-Passenger Trains 

and Equipment. Specifically, § 232.215, 

Transfer Train Brake Tests and 

§ 232.103(e), which requires at least 

85% of a train’s brakes to be operative 

when moving defective equipment in a 

train. This relief would apply for the 

movement of ‘‘bad order’’ cuts of cars 

from UP’s former 18th Street Yard to 

UP’s former Armstrong Yard in Kansas 

City, Kansas. 

UP contends that the yard in question 

consists of one large end-to-end yard, 

which was historically considered 

separate yards—the former 18th Street 

Yard and the former Armstrong Yard. 

Both yards are contiguous and are 

connected by yard tracks, as well as a 

main line track. For purposes of clarity, 

the historical names of the two former 

yards will be used in this waiver.