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contained at 49 CFR Section 229.23 

(which requires a periodic inspection 

every 92 days) and 49 CFR Section 

229.25 (which requires specific tests to 

be done at every periodic inspection). 

The SBG is asking for this testing 

interval to be extended to 184 days. SBG 

conducts rail switching operations for 

customers in the Midvale, UT, area. For 

this operation, SBG runs two 

locomotives for fewer hours than 

normal Class I railroads. This relief will 

help SBG to lower costs and thereby be 

able to pass those savings on to its 

customers. FRA assigned the petition 

Docket Number FRA–2012–0017. 

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 

(DOT) Docket Operations Facility, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue 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. 

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 May 14, 

2012 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 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 

online at http://www.dot.gov/ 

privacy.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 26, 

2012. 

Ron Hynes, 

Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for 

Regulatory and Legislative Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7617 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket Number FRA–2012–0011] 

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) has 

received a request for a waiver of 

compliance from 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. 

The petition has been assigned Docket 

Number FRA–2012–0011. 

Farmrail System Inc. (Farmrail), 

located in Clinton, OK, hereby petitions 

FRA for a waiver from 49 CFR 

213.4(e)(3) to allow more than five cars 

required to be placarded by the 

Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 

CFR part 172) to operate in a single-unit 

train consist. Farmrail proposes that 

FRA grant Farmrail a waiver of 

compliance that will permit more than 

five tank cars carrying any quantity of 

crude oil moving from the Anadarko 

Basin to operate over designated 

‘‘excepted track’’ segments. The basin is 

located between Clinton and Sayre, OK. 

The 17-mile segment between Elk City 

and Sayre is the former Rock Island 

Railroad main track and currently 

designated as excepted track. Under this 

proposal, outbound loads would be 

metered in maximum blocks of 10 cars, 

while up to 20 inbound empties could 

be moved as they arrive (without 

unnecessary delay and loss of velocity); 

thereby relieving severe track 

congestion at Elk City. Farmrail claims 

the relief would not only improve the 

increasing volume of outbound traffic, 

but also eliminate bunching of inbound 

empties at the Elk City bottleneck 

between Class 2 and excepted track, 

where longer strings must now be split 

into five-car blocks for delivery to the 

different logistics customers. 

Additionally, Farmrail states that a 

rail shipper in Sayre receives inbound 

loaded tank cars of methanol at a rate of 

approximately one or two cars per 

month. Methanol is a hazardous 

material. Under this proposal, a loaded 

car of methanol would displace one 

empty car of crude oil, and an empty 

tank car of methanol would displace 

one loaded car of crude oil. A train 

leaving Elk City for Sayre would be 

permitted to have up to 19 empty crude 

oil cars and one loaded methanol car. 

Similarly, a train leaving Sayre for Elk 

City could have 9 loaded crude oil cars 

and one empty methanol car. 

Farmrail states that they have 

experienced no line-haul derailments 

between Elk City and Sayre on the 100- 

pound former mainline rail at 10 mph. 

Farmrail has installed new ties where 

there is curvature, so the safety risk for 

empty tank cars in this extremely rural 

environment is minimal. Public benefits 

from issuance of the requested 

regulatory waiver would include a 

potential 50-percent reduction in the 

number of train movements required to 

move available traffic and associated 

grade crossing accident exposure. 

Farmrail train crews have had 

emergency response and hazmat 

training, and their operating practices 

are randomly monitored by a field 

compliance supervisor. Farmrail 

proposes to conduct twice-weekly hirail inspections of the subject track 

segment until it can be reclassified. 

Additionally, Farmrail states that they 

are the recipients of the Transportation 

Investment Generating Economic 

Recovery or TIGER III grant funds for 

the rehabilitation of 49 miles of rail line 

in western Oklahoma to sound Class 2 

safety standards. The Clinton-to-Sayre 

segment is critical to the origination of 

rapidly growing volumes of crude oil 

produced from the Anadarko Basin oil 

and gas reserves. The $8.4 million-track 

project, sponsored by the Oklahoma 

Department of Transportation (ODOT), 

includes 20 percent in local matching 

funds and an indicated benefit-cost 

factor of 56.8, as posted by ODOT on its 

Web site www.odot.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, 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 (e.g., Waiver 

Petition Docket Number FRA–2012– 

0011) 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 within 30 

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://www.regulations.gov. 

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 

document (or signing the document, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review the U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477), or at http://www.dot.gov/ 

privacy.html. 

Dated: Issued in Washington, DC, on 

March 26, 2012. 

Ron Hynes, 

Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for 

Regulatory and Legislative Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7618 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket Number FRA–2012–0021] 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

In accordance with part 211 of Title 

49 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR), this document provides the 

public notice that by a document dated 

February 14, 2012, Columbia Business 

Center Railroad (CBCX) has petitioned 

the Federal Railroad Administration 

(FRA) for a waiver of compliance from 

certain provisions of the Federal hours 

of service laws contained at 49 U.S.C. 

21103(a)(4). FRA assigned the petition 

docket number FRA–2012–0021. 

In its petition, CBCX seeks relief from 

49 U.S.C. 21103(a)(4), which, in part, 

requires a train employee to receive 48 

hours off duty after initiating an on-duty 

period for 6 consecutive days. 

Specifically, CBCX seeks a waiver to 

allow a train employee to initiate an onduty period for 6 consecutive days 

followed by 24 hours off-duty. In 

support of its request, CBCX submitted 

documents demonstrating employee 

support and a description of employee 

work schedules. 

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 

(DOT) Docket Operations Facility, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue 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. 

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 May 14, 

2012 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 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 

online at http://www.dot.gov/ 

privacy.html. 

Dated: Issued in Washington, DC, on 

March 26, 2012. 

Ron Hynes, 

Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for 

Regulatory and Legislative Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7611 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket Number FRA–2012–0023] 

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 January 

25, 2012, Union Pacific Railroad (UP) 

has petitioned the Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA) for a permanent 

waiver of compliance from certain 

provisions of the Locomotive Safety 

Standards, found at 49 CFR 229.129(b) 

and (c), and which pertain to railroad 

locomotive horn testing. FRA assigned 

the petition Docket Number FRA–2012– 

0023. 

UP seeks to use an automated sound 

measurement system (ASMS) to test 

locomotive horns as required in 49 CFR 

229.129(b). The ASMS uses a Class 1 

sound-level measuring instrument that 

is permanently mounted in a fixed test 

site and uses the same technology that 

is used to measure noise at airports 

nationwide. Due to the proven accuracy 

and reliability of the ASMS and the 

tight procedural control and concise 

documentation they provide (plus the 

fact that the frequency and duration of 

horn blasts and the resulting impact on 

the surrounding community and 

personnel is reduced), UP strongly 

believes that the ASMS is an 

improvement from the current testing 

scheme permitted under 49 CFR 

229.129. 

In addition, UP requests a waiver to 

extend the duration between acoustic 

calibrations (49 CFR 229.129(c)(9)) from 

immediately before and after each 

session of compliance tests, or no later 

than 8 hours, as clarified in 71 FR 

47626, to a period of no more than 6 

months. 

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