Notice of Application for Approval of Discontinuance or Modification of a Railroad Signal System or Relief From the Requirements of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations Part 236, 34979-34980 [E8-13892]
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the requirements of Federal Aviation
Regulations (FAR) Part 150,
promulgated pursuant to the Act, may
submit a noise compatibility program
for FAA approval which sets forth the
measures the operator has taken or
proposes to reduce existing noncompatible uses and prevent the
introduction of additional noncompatible uses.
The FAA has formally received the
noise compatibility program for LAS,
effective on June 9, 2008. The airport
operator has requested that the FAA
review this material and that the noise
mitigation measures, to be implemented
jointly by the airport and surrounding
communities, be approved as a noise
compatibility program under section
47504 of the Act. Preliminary review of
the submitted material indicates that it
conforms to FAR Part 150 requirements
for the submittal of noise compatibility
programs, but that further review will be
necessary prior to approval or
disapproval of the program. The formal
review period, limited by law to a
maximum of 180 days, will be
completed on or before December 6,
2008.
The FAA’s detailed evaluation will be
conducted under the provisions of 14
CFR Part 150, section 150.33. The
primary considerations in the
evaluation process are whether the
proposed measures may reduce the level
of aviation safety or create an undue
burden on interstate or foreign
commerce, and whether they are
reasonably consistent with obtaining the
goal of reducing existing noncompatible land uses and preventing the
introduction of additional noncompatible land uses.
Interested persons are invited to
comment on the proposed program with
specific reference to these factors. All
comments relating to these factors, other
than those properly addressed to local
land use authorities, will be considered
by the FAA to the extent practicable.
Copies of the noise exposure maps and
the proposed noise compatibility
program are available for examination at
the following locations:
Federal Aviation Administration,
National Headquarters, Planning and
Environmental Division, APP–400,
800 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Room 615E, Washington, DC 20591;
Federal Aviation Administration,
Western-Pacific Region Office,
Airports Division, Room 3012, 15000
Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne,
California 90261;
Federal Aviation Administration,
Western Pacific Region, San Francisco
Airports District Office, 831 Mitten
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Road, Suite 210, Burlingame,
California 94010;
Randall H. Walker, Director of Aviation,
Clark County Department of Aviation,
P.O. Box 11005, Las Vegas, Nevada
89111–1005.
Questions may be directed to the
individual named above under the
heading, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Issued in Hawthorne, California on June 9,
2008.
Winsome A. Lenfert,
Acting Manager, Airports Division, AWP–600,
Western-Pacific Region.
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contributing element. Early in 2006,
MassHighway presented its current
proposal to acclaim, proposing to
replace the bridge on its existing
alignment, providing a Temporary
Bridge on southern alignment to allow
public safety mutual aid and vehicular
travel. The proposed fixed bridge will
be 7 feet taller than the existing movable
bridge in closed position. This proposal
reduces impacts to the surrounding
area, including the re-drawn Bridge
Village National Register-eligible
Historic District. For these reasons,
FHWA believes that the proper class of
action for the current proposal is a
Categorical Exclusion.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Environmental Impact Statement:
Bristol County, MA
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Cancellation of the Notice of
Intent.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice rescinds the
previous Notice of Intent (issued
October 9, 1985) to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for a
proposed bridge replacement project—
the Elm St and Center St (BerkleyDighton) Bridge over the Taunton
River—in Bristol County,
Massachusetts.
John
McVann, Field Operations Team Leader,
Federal Highway Administration,
Massachusetts Division Office, 55
Broadway, 10th floor, Cambridge, MA
02142, Telephone: (617) 494–2521—
or—Diane Madden, Sr. Project Manager,
Massachusetts Highway Department,
Environmental Services, 10 Park Plaza,
Room 4260, Boston, MA 02116,
Telephone (617) 973–7477.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
proposed project has changed
dramatically from the mid-1980s when
FHWA determined that except for the
historical aspects of the project the
proposed action would be classified as
a categorical exclusion. Early proposals
including new fixed bridges over 20’ in
height on northern or southern
alignment, negatively impacting the
adjacent Bridge Village National
Register-eligible Historic District. In
2000, noting extensive changes in the
district close to the bridge, FHWA
concurred with a MassHighway petition
to de-list the district, which was later
redrawn, retaining the bridge as a
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Richard J. Marquis,
Assistant FHWA Division Administrator,
Cambridge, MA.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Notice of Application for Approval of
Discontinuance or Modification of a
Railroad Signal System or Relief From
the Requirements of Title 49 Code of
Federal Regulations Part 236
Pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) Part 235 and 49
U.S.C. 20502(a), the following railroad
has petitioned the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) seeking approval
for the discontinuance or modification
of the signal system or relief from the
requirements of 49 CFR Part 236 as
detailed below.
[Docket Number FRA–2008–0064]
Applicant: Portland and Western
Railroad, Inc., Mr. Paul A. Zalec, Vice
President Passenger Operations, 650
Hawthorne Avenue, SE., Suite 220,
Salem, Oregon 97301.
The Portland and Western Railroad,
Inc. (PWRR) seeks relief from the
requirements of the Rules, Standards,
and Instructions, Title 49 CFR, Part 236,
Section 236.513(a), Audible Indicator,
for its planned Wilsonville to Beaverton
commuter rail project, to the extent that
PWRR be permitted to utilize a cab
signal system that does not contain any
onboard acknowledgment device
beyond the acknowledgment received
from movement of brake control(s). The
location of the request is from
Wilsonville, Oregon, on the former
Oregon Electric Railway, Oregon
Electric Subdivision milepost (MP) 42.8
to Beaverton, OR, Tillamook District,
MP 755.50, a distance of approximately
15.3 route miles.
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Applicant’s justification for relief: It is
proposed to provide a momentary
audible indication when a more
restrictive aspect is received, but not
require a manual acknowledgement of
that audible indication. The onboard
automatic train control system
continually monitors the operator’s
adherence to the existing speed limit,
provides an alarm if the speed limit is
being violated, and applies an
irrevocable penalty brake application if
the operator does not act appropriately
to safely bring the speed of the train
below the speed limit. Eliminating the
need for acknowledgement in favor of
continuous speed enforcement
eliminates confusion on the part of the
operator.
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.
Any interested party desiring to
protest the granting of an application
shall set forth specifically the grounds
upon which the protest is made, and it
shall contain a concise statement of the
interest of the party in the proceeding.
Additionally, one copy of the protest
shall be furnished to the applicant at the
address listed above.
All communications concerning these
proceedings should be identified by
Docket Number FRA–2008–0064 and
may be submitted by any of the
following methods:
• Web site: https://
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 within 45
days of the date of this notice will be
considered by FRA before final action is
taken. Comments received after that
date will be considered as far as
practicable. All written communications
concerning these proceedings are
available for examination during regular
business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.) at the
above facility. All documents in the
public docket are also available for
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inspection and copying on the Internet
at the docket facility’s Web site at
https://www.regulations.gov.
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 June 16,
2008.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety
Standards and Program Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Petition for Waiver of Compliance
In accordance with Part 211 of Title
49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR),
notice is hereby given that the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) received
a request for a waiver of compliance
with certain requirements of its safety
standards. The individual petition is
described below, including the party
seeking relief, the regulatory provisions
involved, the nature of the relief being
requested, and the petitioner’s
arguments in favor of relief.
National Railroad Passenger
Corporation
[Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA–2008–
0065]
The National Railroad Passenger
Corporation (Amtrak) seeks a waiver of
compliance from the Passenger
Equipment Safety Standards, 49 CFR
Part 238.309, and the Locomotive Safety
Standards, 49 CFR Parts 229.27 and
229.29, as they pertain to the
requirements to clean, repair and test
airbrake equipment associated with
twenty-one HHP–8 electric locomotives
equipped with Computer Controlled
Brake (CCB–KE–3.9) manufactured by
Knorr Brake Corporation.
The twenty-one locomotives are
operated over Amtrak’s North East
Corridor and maintained by Amtrak,
fifteen of these locomotives are owned
by Amtrak, and five are owned by the
Maryland Transit Administration
(MTA). Amtrak requests allowing the
brake system periodic maintenance to
go beyond the 5-year period (1,840 days)
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previously granted by waiver for Amtrak
(FRA–2001–10596) and for MTA (FRA–
2007–28611). Amtrak feels that because
the KE–3.9 brake system employs real
time self monitoring of the locomotive
brake performance, age exploration for
periodic brake valve maintenance is
appropriate.
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 (e.g., Waiver
Petition Docket Number 2008–0065) and
may be submitted by any of the
following methods:
• Web site: https://
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 within 45
days of the date of this notice will be
considered by FRA before final action is
taken. Comments received after that
date will be considered as far as
practicable. All written communications
concerning these proceedings are
available for examination during regular
business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.) at the
above facility. All documents in the
public docket are also available for
inspection and copying on the Internet
at the docket facility’s Web site at
https://www.regulations.gov.
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).
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Notice of Application for Approval of Discontinuance or
Modification of a Railroad Signal System or Relief From the
Requirements of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations Part 236
Pursuant to Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 235 and
49 U.S.C. 20502(a), the following railroad has petitioned the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) seeking approval for the discontinuance
or modification of the signal system or relief from the requirements of
49 CFR Part 236 as detailed below.
[Docket Number FRA-2008-0064]
Applicant: Portland and Western Railroad, Inc., Mr. Paul A. Zalec, Vice
President Passenger Operations, 650 Hawthorne Avenue, SE., Suite 220,
Salem, Oregon 97301.
The Portland and Western Railroad, Inc. (PWRR) seeks relief from
the requirements of the Rules, Standards, and Instructions, Title 49
CFR, Part 236, Section 236.513(a), Audible Indicator, for its planned
Wilsonville to Beaverton commuter rail project, to the extent that PWRR
be permitted to utilize a cab signal system that does not contain any
onboard acknowledgment device beyond the acknowledgment received from
movement of brake control(s). The location of the request is from
Wilsonville, Oregon, on the former Oregon Electric Railway, Oregon
Electric Subdivision milepost (MP) 42.8 to Beaverton, OR, Tillamook
District, MP 755.50, a distance of approximately 15.3 route miles.
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Applicant's justification for relief: It is proposed to provide a
momentary audible indication when a more restrictive aspect is
received, but not require a manual acknowledgement of that audible
indication. The onboard automatic train control system continually
monitors the operator's adherence to the existing speed limit, provides
an alarm if the speed limit is being violated, and applies an
irrevocable penalty brake application if the operator does not act
appropriately to safely bring the speed of the train below the speed
limit. Eliminating the need for acknowledgement in favor of continuous
speed enforcement eliminates confusion on the part of the operator.
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.
Any interested party desiring to protest the granting of an
application shall set forth specifically the grounds upon which the
protest is made, and it shall contain a concise statement of the
interest of the party in the proceeding. Additionally, one copy of the
protest shall be furnished to the applicant at the address listed
above.
All communications concerning these proceedings should be
identified by Docket Number FRA-2008-0064 and may be submitted by any
of the following methods:
Web site: https://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 within 45 days of the date of this notice
will be considered by FRA before final action is taken. Comments
received after that date will be considered as far as practicable. All
written communications concerning these proceedings are available for
examination during regular business hours (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) at the above
facility. All documents in the public docket are also available for
inspection and copying on the Internet at the docket facility's Web
site at https://www.regulations.gov.
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 June 16, 2008.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program
Development.
[FR Doc. E8-13892 Filed 6-18-08; 8:45 am]
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