Document ID: FMCSA-2009-0106-0015
Agency: fmcsa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Petition for Declaratory Order by Fullington Trailways, LLC
Posted Date: 2009-08-19T04:00Z

[Federal Register: August 19, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 159)]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2009-0106]

 
Petition for Declaratory Order by Fullington Trailways, LLC

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Department 
of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order; extension of comment 
period.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) 
extends the reply comment period for a Petition for Declaratory Order 
that was published on June 4, 2009, until September 14, 2009.

DATES: Reply comments are due on or before September 14, 2009. The 
Agency will only consider reply comments responding directly to issues 
raised in the initial round of comments. Commenters may not use reply 
comments to raise new issues.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Federal Docket 
Management System Docket Number in the heading of this document by any 
of the following methods. Do not submit the same comments by more than 
one method. However, to allow effective public participation before the 
comment period deadline, the Agency encourages use of the Web site that 
is listed first. It will provide the most efficient and timely method 
of receiving and processing your comments.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 
DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery: Ground floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and 
docket number for this regulatory action. Note that all comments 
received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, 
including any personal information provided. Refer to the Privacy Act 
heading on http://www.regulations.gov for further information.
    Docket: Comments and material received from the public, as well as 
background information and documents mentioned in this preamble, are 
part of docket FMCSA-2009-0191, and are available for inspection and 
copying on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. You may also 
view and copy documents at the U.S. Department of Transportation's 
Docket Operations Unit, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC.
    Public Participation: The regulations.gov system is generally 
available 24 hours each day, 365 days each year. You can find 
electronic submission and retrieval help and guidelines under the 
``help'' section of the Web site. For notification that FMCSA received 
the comments, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or 
postcard, or print the acknowledgement page that appears after 
submitting comments on line. Copies or abstracts of all documents 
referenced in this notice are in the docket: FMCSA-2009-0106. For 
access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, 
go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to Room W12-140, 1200 
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 
e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. All comments 
received before the close of business on the comment closing date 
indicated above will be considered and will be available for 
examination in the docket at the above address. Initial comments 
received after the initial comment closing date will not be considered.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Genevieve D. Sapir, Office of the 
Chief Counsel, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366-7056.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 4, 2009 (74 FR 26917), FMCSA 
published a petition submitted by Fullington Trailways, LLC 
(Fullington) for a declaratory order requesting that FMCSA find that 
certain regularly scheduled passenger bus service provided by 
Fullington is in interstate commerce and not subject to the 
jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission. We 
provided the public with a 60-day period for initial comments that 
expired on August 3, 2009, and a 30-day period for reply comments that 
expires on September 2, 2009. At least one timely filed submission 
during the initial comment period was not immediately available in the 
docket. To provide the public adequate time to respond to all timely 
filed initial comments, FMCSA extends

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the reply comment period until September 14, 2009.

    Issued on: August 12, 2009.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy and Program Development.
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