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Management capabilities. Also, Caltrain 

will temporally separate freight 

operations from passenger operations 

between San Francisco, CA, and Santa 

Clara (MP 44.6), by limiting freight 

movements to the exclusive freight 

period hours of midnight–5 a.m. Only 

from MP 44.6–MP 51.9 will freight 

service commingle with Caltrain 

commuter equipment during revenue 

service. 

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–2009– 

0124) 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 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:// 

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 DOT’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. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 19, 

2010. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety 

Standards and Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1226 Filed 1–22–10; 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) 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. 

Utah Transit Authority 

[Supplement to Waiver Docket Number FRA– 

1999–6253] 

As a supplement to the Utah Transit 

Authority’s (UTA) Petition for Approval 

of Shared Use and Waiver of Certain 

FRA Regulations (the original shared 

use waiver was granted by the FRA 

Railroad Safety Board on August 19, 

1999, for the Sandy/Salt Lake TRAX 

LRT line), UTA is amending the terms 

and conditions of the original waiver by 

constructing the Daybreak/Test Track 

Segment portion of the Mid-Jordan LRT 

line extension of the Sandy/Salt Lake 

TRAX LRT line. This Test Track will be 

an exclusive light rail segment, featuring 

a limited connection to the general 

freight system at an interlocking. UTA 

submits that this request is consistent 

with the waiver process for Shared Use. 

See Statement of Agency Policy 

Concerning Jurisdiction Over the Safety 

of Railroad Passenger Operations and 

Waivers Related to Shared Use of the 

Tracks of the General Railroad System 

by Light Rail and Conventional 

Equipment, 65 FR 42529 (July 10, 2000); 

see also Joint Statement of Agency 

Policy Concerning Shared Use of the 

Tracks of the General Railroad System 

by Conventional Railroads and Light 

Rail Transit Systems, 65 FR 42626 (July 

10, 2000). 

UTA is expanding its original Sandy/ 

Salt Lake TRAX LRT line by building 

the 10.6-mile Mid-Jordan LRT line 

extension on the active Union Pacific 

Railroad (UPRR) Bingham Branch, 

which is a single track used solely for 

freight operations. As part of this MidJordan extension, UTA will reconstruct 

this existing track and add a new 

parallel track. This construction will 

allow that portion of the Mid-Jordan 

LRT line that runs on the Bingham 

Branch to utilize two (2) tracks for light 

rail operations during the temporally 

separated passenger period. UPRR will 

continue to operate on the Bingham 

Branch only during the freight period. 

UTA anticipates petitioning FRA at a 

future date for a supplemental waiver of 

compliance from certain portions of 

Title 49 of the CFR for shared use 

temporal separation operations on this 

Mid-Jordan LRT line extension. 

This petition pertains to UTA’s intent 

to first construct an initial 2-mile 

portion of this Mid-Jordan extension 

called the Daybreak/Test Track 

Segment, which will be used 

exclusively by UTA TRAX LRT 

equipment. This track initially will be 

used to commission new LRV 

equipment and to train LRV operators. 

This Daybreak/Test Track segment will 

be an exclusive light rail portion of the 

Mid-Jordan LRT line extension, with a 

limited connection to UPRR Bingham 

Branch at address 5600 West. This 

connection will be composed of four 

electrically locked hand throw switches 

interlocked with UTA’s Signal & Train 

Control System. In addition to this, UTA 

will temporarily employ portable derail 

devices to separate any possible 

incursions of UPRR equipment onto this 

Daybreak/Test Track equipment. Derails 

will be permanently removed once UTA 

has completed testing and begun prerevenue service on the entire MidJordan line. 

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–1999– 

6253) 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 


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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 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://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 DOT’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. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 19, 

2010. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety 

Standards and Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1236 Filed 1–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Availability of a Record of 

Decision (ROD) for the Proposed Bay 

Area Rapid Transit (BART) Connector 

Project at Oakland International Airport 

(OAK), Oakland, Alameda County, CA 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of Record 

of Decision. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public that it has issued a 

ROD for the proposed construction and 

operation of the proposed BART 

connector project at OAK. The ROD 

evaluated the proposed BART–OAK 

connector project at OAK, Oakland, 

Alameda County, California. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA 

has completed and issued its ROD for a 

proposed BART–OAK connector project 

at OAK, Oakland, Alameda County, 

California. The proposed airport 

connector project would operate on an 

Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) 

system on an exclusive, approximate 3- 

mile long right-of-way. The AGT would 

provide a link between the existing 

BART Coliseum station and the airport 

terminal. Approximately one mile of the 

connector project would be built on 

airport property. The connector project 

would improve access to OAK by using 

a direct and convenient connection to 

the existing regional BART rail transit 

system. The ROD discusses alternatives 

considered by FAA in reaching its 

decision, summarizes the analysis used 

to evaluate the alternatives, and briefly 

summarizes the potential environmental 

consequences evaluated in the FAA’s 

ROD. The ROD also identifies the FAA’s 

environmentally preferred alternative, 

applicable and required mitigation. The 

FAA submitted a letter to the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

on November 19, 2009, indicating the 

FAA was adopting the Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) 2002 FEIS on this 

project and also re-circulated the EIS as 

a Final EIS for the FAA. EPA published 

the notice indicating FAA’s adoption of 

the FTA FEIS in the Federal Register on 

November 27, 2009. The comment 

period closed on December 28, 2009 and 

comments were received from the EPA. 

The FAA provided responses to the EPA 

comments in Appendix A of the ROD. 

Copies of the ROD are available for 

public examination during business 

hours at the following locations: 

1. Federal Aviation Administration, 

San Francisco Airports District Office, 

831 Mitten Road, Room 210, 

Burlingame, CA 94010–1303. 

2. Federal Aviation Administration, 

Airports Division, Room 3012, 15000 

Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne, CA 

90261. 

3. Federal Aviation Administration, 

Office of the Associate Administrator for 

Airports, Planning and Environmental 

Division, Room 615, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

4. Administrative Offices of the Port 

of Oakland, Port of Oakland, 530 Water 

Street, Oakland, CA 94607. 

5. Alameda Public Library, Bay Farm 

Island Library, 3221 Macartney Road, 

Alameda, CA 94502. 

6. Oakland Public Library, Brookfield 

Branch, 9255 Edes Avenue, Oakland, 

CA 94603. 

7. Oakland Public Library, Main 

Library, 125 14th Street, Oakland, CA 

94612. 

8. Oakland Public Library, Martin 

Luther King Jr. Branch, 6833 

International Blvd., Oakland, CA 94621. 

9. San Leandro Public Library (Main), 

300 Estudillo Avenue, San Leandro, CA 

94577. 

10. MTC–ABAG Library, Joseph P. 

Bort MetroCenter, 101 8th Street, 

Oakland, CA 94607. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Peter Ciesla, Regional Environmental 

Protection Specialist, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Western-Pacific Region, 

Airports Division, 15000 Aviation 

Boulevard, Hawthorne, California 

90261. Telephone: (310) 725–3612. 

Issued in Hawthorne, California on January 

12, 2010. 

Mia Paredes Ratcliff, 

Acting Manager, Airports Division, WesternPacific Region, AWP–600. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1286 Filed 1–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket No. MARAD–2010–0003] 

Requested Administrative Waiver of 

the Coastwise Trade Laws 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Invitation for public comments 

on a requested administrative waiver of 

the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel 

CYTHERA. 

SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 

12121, the Secretary of Transportation, 

as represented by the Maritime 

Administration (MARAD), is authorized 

to grant waivers of the U.S.-build 

requirement of the coastwise laws under 

certain circumstances. A request for 

such a waiver has been received by 

MARAD. The vessel, and a brief 

description of the proposed service, is 

listed below. The complete application 

is given in DOT docket MARAD–2010– 

0003 at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Interested parties may comment on the 

effect this action may have on U.S. 

vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. 

that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD 

determines, in accordance with 46 

U.S.C. 12121 and MARAD’s regulations 

at 46 CFR part 388 (68 FR 23084; April 

30, 2003), that the issuance of the 

waiver will have an unduly adverse 

effect on a U.S.-vessel builder or a 

business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in 

that business, a waiver will not be 

granted. Comments should refer to the 

docket number of this notice and the 

vessel name in order for MARAD to 

properly consider the comments. 

Comments should also state the 

commenter’s interest in the waiver 


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