Document ID: FRA-2017-0002-0013
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Survey of Plant and Insular Tourist Railroads subject to FRA Bridge Safety Standards
Posted Date: 2017-05-22T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 97 (Monday, May 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 23486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-10294]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket No. FRA-2017-0002-N-15]

Survey of Plant and Insular Tourist Railroads Subject to FRA 
Bridge Safety Standards

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice and request for information.

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SUMMARY: FRA is issuing this notice to supplement a prior notice and 
request for comments by which FRA requested railroads serving a plant, 
and moving railroad equipment over bridges within the plant, or the 
plant itself, to advise FRA by email or telephone if there are railroad 
bridges within the plant potentially subject to FRA Bridge Safety 
Standards. FRA also requested insular tourist railroads with tracks 
supported by one or more bridges to advise FRA of the existence of 
their bridges by email or telephone. This notice provides the email 
address railroads should use and extends the date to submit comments in 
response to the prior notice.

DATES: Comments must be received no later than July 21, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Killingbeck, Chief Engineer--
Structures, Bridge & Structures Division, Office of Technical 
Oversight, FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 3rd Floor--West, 
Washington, DC, 20590, (202) 493-6251.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Email notifications responding to FRA's 
notice and request for information published April 11, 2017 (see 82 FR 
17498) should be sent to FRAPlantTouristSurvey@dot.gov and include the 
name of the plant or insular tourist railroad, that entity's address 
(including city and State), and a contact name, telephone number, and 
email address. Notification may also be made by telephone to David 
Killingbeck at (202) 493-6251. The date for comments in response to the 
notice and request for information published in the Federal Register on 
April 11, 2017, has been extended to the date listed in the DATES 
section above.

John Seguin,
Acting Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2017-10294 Filed 5-19-17; 8:45 am]
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