Document ID: FRA-2015-0013-0003
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petitions: Waivers of Compliance
Posted Date: 2015-03-13T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 49 (Friday, March 13, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13459-13460]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-05752]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2015-0013]

Petition for Waiver of Compliance

    In accordance with Part 211 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR), this document provides the public notice that by a document 
dated January 26, 2015, the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) has 
petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of 
compliance from certain provisions of the Federal railroad safety 
regulations. Specifically, IRM requests relief from certain provisions 
of 49 CFR part 230, Steam Locomotive Inspection and Maintenance 
Standards. FRA assigned the petition Docket Number FRA-2015-0013.
    IRM is a railroad museum that maintains and operates Number 1630, a 
2-10-0 ``Decapod'' type steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive 
Works in 1918. IRM typically operates Number 1630 for 31 or fewer 
service days per year and expects to do so for the future. IRM requests 
relief from performing the fifth annual inspection as it pertains to 
the inspection of flexible staybolt caps every 5 years as required by 
49 CFR 230.41(a), and requests to extend the inspection interval to 
2,760 calendar days (7.5 years) after the locomotive entered service on 
May 24, 2014. IRM will perform all other inspections as required by 49 
CFR 230.16, Annual inspection. IRM's justification for requesting this 
relief is that the current level of safety would be maintained due to 
the low number of service days accrued in this engine since the last 
flexible staybolt cap inspection. There will be a significant cost 
savings as the IRM shop forces would not be required to remove the cab, 
piping, jacketing, and insulation to gain access to the caps to perform 
the flexible staybolt cap inspection.
    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

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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 April 27, 2015 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.). 
In accordance with 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 www.dot.gov/privacy. 
See also http://www.regulations.gov/#!privacyNotice for the privacy 
notice of regulations.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on March 10, 2015.
Ron Hynes,
Director, Office of Technical Oversight.
[FR Doc. 2015-05752 Filed 3-12-15; 8:45 am]
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