[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 18064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-06595]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2007-0030]


Petition for Extension of Waiver of Compliance

    Under part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), this 
document provides the public notice that on March 11, 2022, NJ TRANSIT 
Corporation (NJT) petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 
for an extension of a waiver of compliance from certain provisions of 
the Federal railroad safety regulations contained at 49 CFR parts 213, 
219, 221, 222, 223, 229, 231, 234, 236, 238, 239, 242, 243, and 270. 
The relevant FRA Docket Number is FRA-2007-0030.
    Specifically, NJT requests an extension of relief from multiple 
regulations and seeks new relief from two additional parts (243 and 
270) for NJT's Southern New Jersey Light Rail Transit (the ``River 
Line''). The River Line is a commuter light rail transit system that 
operates over the Bordentown Secondary Track, track NJT shares with the 
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail). The operation uses diesel 
multiple unit trainsets during an exclusive passenger period, 
temporally separated from Conrail's nightly freight operations over the 
same tracks. NJT states that the relief facilitates more efficient and 
productive joint use of the trackage and that the limited nighttime 
joint operations have been carried out safely since the original waiver 
was granted.
    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.
    All communications concerning these proceedings should identify the 
appropriate docket number and may be submitted at http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Communications received by May 13, 2022 will be considered by FRA 
before final action is taken. Comments received after that date will be 
considered if practicable.
    Anyone can 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 document, if 
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). 
Under 5 U.S.C. 553(c), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) 
solicits comments from the public to better 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. 2022-06595 Filed 3-28-22; 8:45 am]
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