Document ID: FRA-2012-0029-0005
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Posted Date: 2012-07-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 43646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18082]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2012-0029]

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 February 28, 2012, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has petitioned 
the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of compliance 
extension from certain provisions of the Federal railroad safety 
regulations contained at 49 CFR Sections 242.403(b), (c)(1)-(3), (d), 
(e)(1)-(4), (e)(6)-(11), (e)(13) and f(1)-(2). FRA assigned the 
petition Docket Number FRA-2012-0029.
    The Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) pilot project 
for the CP Portage, WI, terminal was initially approved by FRA on March 
3, 2008. In Docket Number FRA-2007-0008, CP requested and received a 
waiver of compliance from certain provisions of 49 CFR Part 240 to 
support its C3RS demonstration pilot project. In this petition, CP, the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, and the United 
Transportation Union are requesting a waiver in order to shield the 
reporting employee(s) and the railroad from punitive sanctions that 
would otherwise arise as provided in selected sections of Sec.  
242.403.
    A copy of the petition, as well as any written communications 
concerning the petition, is available for review online at http://www.regulations.gov and in person at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation's (DOT) Docket Operations Facility, 1200 New Jersey Ave. 
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. If you do not have access to the Internet, please contact 
FRA's Docket Clerk at 202-493-6030 and the clerk will provide necessary 
information concerning the contents of the petition.
    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 September 10, 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 July 19, 2012.
Robert C. Lauby,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Regulatory and Legislative 
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2012-18082 Filed 7-24-12; 8:45 am]
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