Document ID: FRA-2007-0022-0003
Agency: fra
Document Type: Rule
Title: Waiver of Compliance Petition
Posted Date: 2008-02-01T05:00Z

[Federal Register: February 1, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 22)]
[Notices]               
[Page 6260-6261]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

 
Petition for Waiver of Compliance

    In accordance with Part 211 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR), notice is hereby given that the Federal Railroad Administration 
(FRA) received a request for a waiver of compliance with certain 
requirements of its safety standards. The individual petition is 
described below, including the party seeking relief, the regulatory 
provisions involved, the nature of the relief being requested, and the 
petitioner's arguments in favor of relief.

Village of Elmwood Park, Illinois

[Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA-2007-0022]

    The Village of Elmwood Park, Illinois (Village) and the 
Northeastern Illinois Commuter Rail Corporation (Metra) seek a 
permanent waiver of compliance from a certain provision of the Use of 
Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings, 49 CFR Part 222. The 
Village intends to establish a new partial quiet zone consisting of 
four public highway-rail at-grade crossings and two pedestrian at-grade 
crossings. The Village and Metra are seeking a waiver to modify the 
hours of a new partial quiet zone as provided in 49 CFR Part 222.9, 
definition of a new partial quiet zone that states that locomotive 
horns are not routinely sounded between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. 
The waiver petition requests that the time period for the new partial 
quiet zone is between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. as recommended by the Illinois 
Commerce Commission (ICC) to better reflect the existing traffic 
conditions. The ICC made these comments during a diagnostic team 
meeting on September 5, 2007, and in a letter to the Village dated 
September 11, 2007.
    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 (e.g., Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA-
2007-0022) and may be submitted by any of the following methods:

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    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 within 45 days of the date of this notice 
will be considered by FRA before final action is taken. Comments 
received after that date will be considered as far as practicable. All 
written communications concerning these proceedings are available for 
examination during regular business hours (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) at the above 
facility. All documents in the public docket are also available for 
inspection and copying on the Internet at the docket facility's Web 
site at http://www.regulations.gov.

    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 
19477-19478).

    Issued in Washington, DC on January 28, 2008.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. E8-1866 Filed 1-31-08; 8:45 am]

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