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from certain provisions of the Safety 

Glazing Standards, 49 CFR Part 223, 

which requires certified glazing in all 

windows. The NYLE is a short line 

freight carrier that travels 29.5 miles 

through rural countryside and small 

communities, averaging 1.5 times per 

week. The number of cars hauled per 

train is 5 cars or less. The railroad has 

two line segments, which are connected 

and extend from Cattaraugus, NY to 

Dayton, NY (10.1 miles) and from 

Conewango Valley, NY to Gowanda, NY 

(19.4 miles). The point of interchange is 

in Gowanda, NY. 

This request is for three locomotives, 

specifically locomotive numbers NYLE 

6101, NYLE 1013, and NYLE 308. At the 

present time, NYLE 6101 is equipped 

with Safety Glass, AS–2, 230, 5, and 

DOT 1. NYLE 1013 is equipped with 

Laminated Safety Glass AS–1, DOT 

14M–220–ASI–030. NYLE 308 is 

equipped with Clear Laminated Safety 

Glass, AS–2 101. The railroad claims 

that they have not had any problems 

with window breakage due to 

vandalism, and they have not had to 

replace glass due to breakage from flying 

objects. 

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 2004–19950) 

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 February 1, 

2005. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety.

[FR Doc. 05–2235 Filed 2–4–05; 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 favour of relief. 

Union Railroad Company 

[Docket Number FRA–2004–19260] 

The Union Railroad (URR), a Class III 

switching railroad, seeks a waiver of 

compliance from the requirements of 

Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) § 223.13 Requirements for 

existing cabooses for nine cabooses to be 

used in revenue freight service. The 

URR is engaged in general railroad 

transportation and provides railroad 

switching service primarily to the steel 

industry. In addition to steel mills, the 

railroad serves the coal industry through 

Duquesne Wharf, a coke production 

facility at Clairton, Pennsylvania, and 

more than 30 other customers in the 

automotive, chemical, and aggregate 

business. 

The URR currently consists of 65 

miles of main track and approximately 

200 miles of yard tracks and sidings, all 

located within a 10-mile radius in 

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The 

northernmost point is located at North 

Bessemer, Pennsylvania, where the 

railroad proceeds southward through 

Turtle Creek, East Pittsburgh, 

Monongahela Junction, Clairton 

Junction and Clairton. 

Laminated safety glass is proposed to 

be used in lieu of glazing materials that 

meet the requirements of FRA Type I 

and Type II. Cabooses on the URR, 

which have been recently retired from 

service and scrapped, were operating 

with laminated safety glazing under a 

similar waiver granted in 1980 [FRA 

Docket Number RSGM–80–1]. There 

have been no reported acts of vandalism 

or breakage of caboose glazing caused by 

striking objects. Cabooses C–100, 101, 

102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, and 109 

will be operating over the same routes 

and schedules as the equipment covered 

by the previous waiver. 

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–

19260 ) and must be submitted in 

triplicate to the Docket Clerk, DOT 

Central Docket Management Facility, 

Room Pl–401, Washington, DC. 20590–

0001. 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 DOT 

Central Docket Management Facility, 

Room Pl–401 (Plaza Level), 400 Seventh 

Street SW., Washington. 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 19377–78). The 

statement may also be found at http://

dms.dot.gov.

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 1, 

2005. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety.

[FR Doc. 05–2234 Filed 2–4–05; 8:45 am] 

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