Document ID: FRA-2014-0077-0004
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Posted Date: 2014-10-20T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 202 (Monday, October 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62703-62704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24746]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2014-0077]

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 July 30, 2014, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum 
(MNGR) has petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a 
waiver of compliance from certain provisions of the Federal railroad 
safety regulations contained at 49 CFR Part 230, Steam Locomotive 
Inspection and Maintenance Standards. FRA assigned the petition Docket 
Number FRA-2014-0077. MNGR is a 2-foot gauge railroad that owns and 
operates No. 4, a 0-4-4 type steam locomotive, built in 1918 by the 
Vulcan Iron Works.

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    MNGR requests relief from 49 CFR 230.17, One thousand four hundred 
seventy-two (1472) service day inspection. Specifically, MNGR is 
petitioning for a delay of the 1472 service-day inspection (SDI) due on 
April 29, 2014, until December 31, 2014. The delay of the SDI would 
allow No. 4 to complete the 2014 MNGR winter holiday operating season. 
To date, No. 4 has used 482 service days and requires 30 of the 
remaining 990 service days to finish the 2014 operating schedule.
    A copy of the petition, as well as any written communications 
concerning the petition, is available for review online at 
www.regulations.gov and in person at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation's (DOT) Docket Operations Facility, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue 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.
    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 December 4, 2014 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 document, 
if submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). 
See http://www.regulations.gov/#!privacyNotice for the privacy notice 
of regulations.gov or interested parties may review DOT's complete 
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 
2000 (65 FR 19477).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2014.
Ron Hynes,
Director of Technical Oversight.
[FR Doc. 2014-24746 Filed 10-17-14; 8:45 am]
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