Document ID: FRA-2012-0053-0004
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Applications for Approval of Discontinuance or Modification of Railroad Signal Systems
Posted Date: 2012-07-10T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 10, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40700-40701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16796]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2012-0053]

Notice of Application for Approval of Discontinuance or 
Modification of a Railroad Signal System

    In accordance with Part 235 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) and 49 U.S.C. 20502(a), this document provides the 
public notice that by a document dated June 5, 2012, the Alabama and 
Tennessee River Railway LLC has petitioned the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) seeking approval for the discontinuance or 
modification of a signal system. FRA assigned the petition Docket 
Number FRA-2012-0053.
    Applicant: Alabama and Tennessee River Railway LLC, Mr. Jason 
Scott, Vice President Signals & Communications, 3425 Forrest Avenue, 
Gadsden, Alabama 35904.
    The Alabama and Tennessee River Railway LLC (ATN) seeks approval of 
the proposed discontinuance of signalized slide fences on the 
Birmingham Subdivision. The discontinuance would include the slide 
fence at Milepost (MP) 693.8, northbound signal at MP 697.1, and 
southbound signal at MP 691.9; slide fences at MP 701.6, 702.9, 703.2, 
704.4, and 705.6, northbound signal at MP 706.8, and southbound signal 
at MP 699.9; slide fence at MP 718.0, northbound signal at MP 721.2, 
and southbound signal at MP 715.7; slide fences located at MP 724.4 and 
724.5, northbound signal at MP 726.3, and southbound signal at MP 
721.2.
    The reasons given for the proposed changes is that there has been 
no slide activity affecting train operations since ATN began operations 
in 2005. The maximum authorized speed is 10 mph, with ATN crews 
operating at restricted speed, as outlined in General Code of Operating 
Rules 6.21, when a severe weather event is encountered during the 
course of duty. Maintenance-of-way employees also perform an inspection 
prior to trains operating in the area after a significant storm event. 
There are no passenger train operations in the area and freight trains 
average one train per day.
    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 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.
    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

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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 August 24, 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).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 3, 2012.
Ron Hynes,
Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Regulatory and Legislative 
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2012-16796 Filed 7-9-12; 8:45 am]
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