Document ID: FRA-2016-0086-0021
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petition for Waiver of Compliance
Posted Date: 2022-11-16T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 16, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68792-68793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24960]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2016-0086]

Petition for Waiver of Compliance

    Under part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), this 
document provides the public notice that by letter dated October 12, 
2022, Canadian National Railway Company (CN) petitioned the Federal 
Railroad Administration (FRA) to join an existing waiver of compliance 
from certain provisions of the Federal railroad safety regulations 
contained at 49 CFR parts 232 (Brake System Safety Standards for 
Freight and Other Non-Passenger Trains and Equipment; End-Of-Train 
Devices), and 229 (Railroad Locomotive Safety Standards). The relevant 
FRA Docket Number is FRA-2016-0086.
    Specifically, CN requests to join a waiver previously granted to 
CSX Transportation (CSX), BNSF Railway (BNSF), and Kansas City Southern 
Railway Company (KCS), and be granted relief from 49 CFR 
232.205(c)(1)(iii), Class I brake test-initial terminal inspection, and 
229.29(b), Air brake system calibration, maintenance, and testing, 
related to air flow method (AFM) indicator calibration intervals. The 
relief granted to CSX, BNSF, and KCS allows the railroads to test 
extending the AFM test intervals from 92 days to 184 days on 
locomotives equipped with the New York Air Brake (NYAB) CCB-II air 
brake systems. CN seeks to form a test waiver team operating under the 
current test committee overseeing the relief in FRA-2016-0086 to test 
CN's 772 NYAB CCBII-equipped locomotives. CN states that it has been an 
active member of the Association of American Railroads Locomotive 
Committee and is familiar with the work performed by the FRA-2016-0086 
test committee.
    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

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appropriate docket number and may be submitted at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Communications received by January 16, 2023 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), 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. 2022-24960 Filed 11-15-22; 8:45 am]
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