Document ID: FRA-2013-0144-0004
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Railroad Signal Systems: Applications for Discontinuances or Modifications
Posted Date: 2014-02-11T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 8241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02868]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2013-0144]

Notice of Application for Approval of Discontinuance or 
Modification of a Railroad Signal System

    In accordance with Part 235 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 
and 49 U.S.C. 20502(a), this document provides the public notice that 
by a document dated November 25, 2013, Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad 
(BPRR) and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) jointly petitioned the Federal 
Railroad Administration (FRA) seeking approval for the discontinuance 
or modification of a signal system. FRA assigned the petition Docket 
Number FRA-2013-0144.
    Applicants: 

Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, Mr. Raymond A. Goss, Senior Vice 
President, Northeast Region, Genesee & Wyoming, 400 Meridian Centre, 
Suite 330, Rochester, NY 14618.
Norfolk Southern Corporation, Mr. Brian Sykes, Chief Engineer C&S 
Engineering, 1200 Peachtree Street NE., Atlanta, GA 30309.
    BPRR and NS jointly seek approval of the proposed discontinuance of 
the traffic control system (TCS) on the main track and controlled 
siding between West Seneca, NY, Milepost (MP) BR 8.8, and Machias, NY, 
MP 44.7, on the Machias Subdivision. Controlled signals at Control 
Points (CP) Machias (MP 44.5), CP Perry (MP 25.0), and CP Wales (MP 
22.0) will be discontinued. Intermediate signals 12, 
15, 18, 27, 33, 37, and 
40 will be discontinued. Power-operated switches at CPs will 
be converted to hand operation. Derails will be installed at the end of 
the siding at CP Wales and CP Perry. BPRR will maintain an approach 
signal to CP Gravity (MP 10.5).
    The reasons given for the proposed changes are to improve the 
efficiency of operation, that the TCS is no longer needed due to 
reduced train traffic, and that there are no longer opposing moves or 
fleeted traffic with following moves.
    A copy of the petition, as well as any written communications 
concerning the petition, is available for review online at 
www.regulations.gov and in person at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation's (DOT) Docket Operations Facility, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE., W12-140, Washington, DC 20590. The Docket Operations 
Facility is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 
Federal Holidays.
    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 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 by March 28, 2014 will be considered by FRA 
before final action is taken. Comments received after that date will be 
considered as far as practicable.
    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 comment (or signing the document, 
if submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). 
See http://www.regulations.gov/#!privacyNotice for the privacy notice 
of regulations.gov or interested parties may review DOT's complete 
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 
2000 (65 FR 19477).

Robert C. Lauby,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-02868 Filed 2-10-14; 8:45 am]
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