[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 27, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 25208-25209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-12156]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

49 CFR Part 240

[Docket No. FRA-2008-0091, Notice No. 3]
RIN 2130-AB95


Qualification and Certification of Locomotive Engineers; 
Miscellaneous Revisions

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice to reopen comment period.

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SUMMARY: FRA is reopening the comment period for the notice of proposed 
rulemaking (NPRM) published on December 31, 2008 (73 FR 80349) which 
proposed revisions to FRA regulations governing the qualification and 
certification of locomotive engineers. Reopening the comment period is 
necessary to provide interested parties the opportunity to submit 
comments on the information and testimony offered at the public hearing 
related to the NPRM that was conducted on April 14, 2009. The comment 
period is reopened until June 15, 2009.

DATES: Written comments must be received by Monday, June 15, 2009. 
Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent 
possible without incurring additional expenses or delays.

ADDRESSES: Comments related to Docket No. FRA-2008-0091 may be 
submitted by any of the following methods:
    <bullet> Fax: 1-202-493-2251;
    <bullet> Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket 
Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590;
    <bullet> Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket 
Operations, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays; or
    <bullet> Electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal, 
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for 
submitting comments.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name, docket 
name

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and docket number or Regulatory Identification Number (RIN) for this 
rulemaking. Note that all comments received will be posted without 
change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal 
information provided. Please see the Privacy Act section of this 
document.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to 
U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: John L. Conklin, Program Manager, 
Locomotive Engineer Certification, U.S. Department of Transportation, 
Federal Railroad Administration, Mail Stop 25, West Building 3rd Floor 
West, Room W38-208, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590 
(telephone: 202-493-6318); or John Seguin, Trial Attorney, U.S. 
Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office 
of Chief Counsel, RCC-10, Mail Stop 10, West Building 3rd Floor, Room 
W31-217, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: 
202-493-6045).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 14, 2009, the comment period for 
the NPRM reopened for thirty (30) days so that FRA could make the 
public hearing transcript available for review and comment by the 
general public, interested parties could provide additional comments or 
documents, and so interested parties could respond to testimony 
provided at the public hearing. A request for an extension of that 
comment period, which closed on May 14, 2009, has been filed with the 
FRA. The request alleges that an interested party was unable to timely 
comment due to problems accessing the hearing transcript. In light of 
the request, FRA is reopening the comment period.

Privacy Act

    FRA wishes to inform all potential commenters that anyone is able 
to search the electronic form of all comments received into any agency 
docket 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 (65 FR 19477-78) or 
you may visit http://www.regulations.gov/search/footer/privacyanduse.jsp.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on May 20, 2009.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E9-12156 Filed 5-26-09; 8:45 am]
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