Document ID: FRA-2000-7137-0041
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petition for Waiver of Compliance
Posted Date: 2021-01-08T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 5 (Friday, January 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1575-1576]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-00141]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2000-7137]

Petition for Waiver of Compliance

    Under part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), this 
document provides the public notice that on December 21, 2020, San 
Diego Trolley Incorporated (SDTI) petitioned the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) to renew a waiver of compliance from certain 
provisions of the Federal railroad safety regulations contained at 
various parts of 49 CFR. FRA assigned the petition Docket Number FRA-
2000-7137.
    Specifically, SDTI seeks a five-year extension of its existing 
waiver of compliance with modifications. The waiver applies to certain 
portions of SDTI's rail fixed guideway urban transit operations which 
employ temporal separation to safely share track with the general 
railroad system's San Diego & Imperial Valley Railroad (SDIV). 
Contiguous to the shared trackage are portions with limited connections 
to the general railroad system, which include a small shared corridor 
with BNSF Railway and Coaster commuter train service, which also shares 
a storage yard with SDTI. FRA granted SDTI its initial waiver on 
January 19, 2001, and the most recent update to the waiver was FRA's 
May 1, 2020, approval of SDTI's new absolute block arrangement on its 
Blue Line.
    In this petition, SDTI seeks an extension of its relief from the 
following parts and sections in 49 CFR: part 217, Railroad Operating 
Rules (except for 217.9(d)); 218.27(a), Workers on track other than 
main track (as granted in part and denied in part in FRA's January 19, 
2001, letter); part 219, Control of Alcohol and Drug Use; part 220, 
Railroad Communications (as granted in part in FRA's January 19, 2001, 
letter); part 221, Rear End Marking Device--Passenger, Commuter and 
Freight Trains; 223.9(c), Requirements for new or rebuilt equipment and 
223.15(c), Requirements for existing passenger cars; part 225, Railroad 
Accidents/Incidents: Reports Classification, and Investigations (for 
employee injuries only); part 228, subpart F, Substantive Hours of 
Service Requirements for Train Employees Engaged in Commuter or 
Intercity Rail Passenger Transportation, and relevant recordkeeping 
sections of subpart B, Records and Reporting; the following sections of 
part 229, Railroad Locomotive Safety Standards: 229.46-229.59, 229.61, 
229.65, 229.71, 229.77, 229.125, and 229.135; 231.14, Passenger-train 
cars without end platforms; the following sections of part 238, 
Passenger Equipment Safety Standards: 238.112, 238.113, 238.114, 
238.115(b)(4), 238.203, 238.205, 238.207, 238.209, 238.211, 238.213, 
238.215, 238.217, 238.219, 238.231, 238.233, 238.237, and part 238, 
subpart D in its entirety, sections 238.301 through 238.319; part 239, 
Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness; part 240, Locomotive Engineer 
Certification; and part 242, Qualification and Certification of 
Conductors.
    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 parties 
desire 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 
appropriate docket number and may be submitted by any of the following 
methods:
     Website: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Operations Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, W12-140, Washington, DC 
20590.
     Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal Holidays.
    Communications received by February 22, 2021 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

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be reviewed at https://www.transportation.gov/privacy. See also https://www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice for the privacy notice of 
regulations.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC.
John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-00141 Filed 1-7-21; 8:45 am]
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