Document ID: FRA-2019-0097-0003
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petition for Waiver of Compliance
Posted Date: 2020-01-09T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 6 (Thursday, January 9, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 1192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00127]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2019-0097]

Petition for Waiver of Compliance

    Under part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), this 
document provides the public notice that on November 7, 2019, the 
Monticello Railway Museum (MRMZ) 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-2019-0097.
    MRMZ maintains and operates Southern No. 401, a 2-8-0 
``Consolidation'' type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive 
Works in 1907 for the Southern Railway.
    Specifically, MRMZ requests relief from 49 CFR 230.16(a)(2), Fifth 
annual inspection, of flexible staybolts and caps, due in April 2020. 
Southern No. 401 typically operates 20 service days each year, one 
weekend of each month between May and October, pulling tourist trains 
on a 7.5-mile round trip. The locomotive received a new boiler in 2005 
and was placed into service in September 2010. Because the first flue 
was installed in May 2005, the locomotive will be due for a 1,472 
service day inspection (SDI) in May 2021 as set forth by 49 CFR 230.17, 
One thousand four hundred seventy-two (1472) service day inspection. 
Southern No. 401 has accrued 100 service days since the previous fifth 
annual flexible staybolt inspection in 2015. Allowing the relief would 
add an estimated 20 service days to the locomotive before its next 
1,472 SDI.
    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 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 parties 
desire an opportunity for oral comment and a public hearing, 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:
     Website: 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 Ave. SE, W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal Holidays.
    Communications received by February 24, 2020 will be considered by 
FRA before final action is taken. Comments received after that date 
will be considered if practicable. Anyone can 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.). Under 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits 
comments from the public to better inform its processes. DOT posts 
these comments, without edit, including any personal information the 
commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as described in the system 
of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at https://www.transportation.gov/privacy. See also https://www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice for the privacy notice of regulations.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC.
John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-00127 Filed 1-8-20; 8:45 am]
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