Document ID: FRA-2012-0042-0003
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Posted Date: 2012-06-12T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35107-35108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-14167]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2012-0042]

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 March 22, 2012, CSX Transportation (CSX) has petitioned the 
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of compliance from 
certain provisions of the Federal railroad safety regulations contained 
at 49 CFR Part 236. FRA assigned the petition Docket Number FRA-2012-
0042.
    CSX seeks relief from the requirements of 49 CFR Part 236, Rules, 
Standards, and Instructions Governing the Installation, Inspection, 
Maintenance, and Repair of Signal and Train Control Systems, Devices, 
and Appliances; and Section 236.109, Time releases, timing relays and 
timing devices. CSX requests relief from 49 CFR 236.109 as it applies 
to variable timers within the program logic of the operating software 
of microprocessor-based equipment.

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    CSX states that timing devices contained within microprocessor-
based equipment are typically nonvariables and are within the program 
logic of the operating software. However, CSX notes that some 
microprocessor-based equipment have variable timers. CSX is requesting 
relief from the requirement of checking the actual time interval of 
microprocessor-based variable timers. Such variable timers will use 
verification of the cyclic redundancy check/check sum/universal control 
number of the existing location specific application logic to the 
previously tested version.
    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 July 27, 2012 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 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 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 
19477-78), or online at http://www.dot.gov/privacy.html.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 5, 2012.
Ron Hynes,
Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Regulatory and Legislative 
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2012-14167 Filed 6-11-12; 8:45 am]
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