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safety risks because if the kicked cars
fail to couple, there is a likelihood that
the equipment may roll backward
toward employees who have to place
themselves between rolling equipment
in the course of conducting switching
operations. Thus, one of FRA’s
recommendations below is that
railroads adopt procedures to prohibit
crews from kicking cars in flat switching
operations at locations where the
physical characteristics make it likely
that such cars will roll back out toward
the crew if a proper coupling is not
made.
The discussion contained in this
safety advisory is not intended to place
blame on or assign responsibility to
individuals or railroads, but rather to
emphasize the fact that a culture of
safety and rules compliance is
everyone’s responsibility. FRA
encourages railroad management to
adopt and adhere to policies that
promote the safest course of action in
conducting switching operations,
particularly by taking into account
unique characteristics that exist at
different locations when adopting those
policies. Further, a culture of
performing each task safely and as
instructed in training in accordance
with applicable railroad operating rules
must be reinforced not only by
management, but by railroad employees
as well. Railroad management must
positively reinforce, via job briefings
and other appropriate means, safe job
performance in accordance with
established rules and procedures.
Support from railroad management and
positive peer pressure from fellow
railroad employees encouraging
individuals to perform each task in a
safe manner via the proper procedures
will help railroad employees maintain
responsibility for their own safety.
Recommended Railroad Action: In
light of the above discussion, and in an
effort to maintain a heightened sense of
vigilance among railroads and their
employees who conduct switching
operations, FRA recommends that
railroads:
(1) Review with their employees the
circumstances of the fatal incident
described in this Safety Advisory 2013–
03.
(2) Evaluate locations where flat
switching operations are conducted and
identify those where the physical
characteristics and the types of cars
being switched heighten the possibility
that cars will roll out toward the
employees conducting such operations.
After identifying such locations, FRA
recommends that railroads adopt
procedures requiring that cars be shoved
into couplings rather than kicked during
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such operations in an effort to lessen the
potential safety risks, particularly when
employees have to go between
equipment.
(3) Review with their employees,
including management employees,
SOFA Safety Recommendation # 1,
Adjusting Knuckles, Adjusting
Drawbars, and installing End of Train
Devices, reproduced above, and
communicate its procedures
implementing that recommendation to
employees working in yards or other
locations where the possibility of
entering between rolling equipment
exists. FRA recommends that railroads
place emphasis on the portion of SOFA
Safety Recommendation #1 discussing
the need to ensure that equipment not
attached to the locomotive is stopped,
and is secured with handbrakes when
necessary, before employees go between
rolling equipment. Inherent in
complying with SOFA Safety
Recommendation #1 is recognition of
the physical characteristics of the track
on which switching operations are being
conducted and the rolling
characteristics of the type of equipment
being switched, particularly as related
to the handling of loaded tank cars.
(4) Re-emphasize the
recommendations contained in previous
Safety Advisory 2011–02 with all of
their employees, including railroad
management.
FRA encourages railroad industry
members to take actions that are
consistent with the preceding
recommendations, and to take other
complementary actions to help ensure
the safety of the Nation’s railroad
employees. FRA may modify this Safety
Advisory 2013–03, issue additional
safety advisories, or take other
appropriate actions necessary to ensure
the highest level of safety on the
Nation’s railroads, including pursuing
other corrective measures under its rail
safety authority.
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 29,
2013.
Joseph C. Szabo,
Administrator.
ACTION:
Notice; correction.
SUMMARY: The Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) published a
notice in the Federal Register on April
22, 2013, concerning a limitation on
claims for certain specified public
transportation projects. The notice
contained an incorrect description of
one project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy-Ellen Zusman, Assistant Chief
Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (312)
353–2577 or Terence Plaskon,
Environmental Protection Specialist,
Office of Human and Natural
Environment, (202) 366–0442. FTA is
located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Correction
In the Federal Register notice dated
April 22, 2013, FR Doc. E6–14314, on
page 23817, in the third column, the
Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project
was incorrectly described as a heavy rail
project; a corrected project description
should read:
Project description: The project will extend
light rail transit from the existing Metro
Exposition Line at Crenshaw and Exposition
Boulevards to the Metro Green Line’s
Aviation/LAX Station. LACMTA proposes
three modifications to the project. These
modifications resulted from refinements to
design and efforts to reduce cost, to respond
to community concerns, reduce right-of-way
acquisition, and to improve circulation. The
proposed modifications and refinements
include reconfiguration of a mid-block atgrade pedestrian crossing to an undercrossing
at Faithful Central Bible Church;
reconfiguration of a below-grade trench to an
aerial guideway over La Brea Avenue; and
elevation of the planned at-grade Florence/La
Brea Station to street level. This notice only
applies to the discrete actions taken by FTA
at this time, as described below. Nothing in
this notice affects FTA’s previous decisions,
or notice thereof, for this project.
Federal Transit Administration
This correction does not alter the
statute of limitations (SOL) for
modifications to the Crenshaw/LAX
Transit Corridor Project previously
noticed on April 22, 2013, and
described above. The SOL on claims
still will expire on September 19, 2013.
Limitation on Claims Against Proposed
Public Transportation Projects;
Correction
Issued On: April 30, 2013.
Lucy Garliauskas,
Associate Administrator for Planning and
Environment, Washington, DC.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public Transportation
Projects; Correction
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published a notice in
the Federal Register on April 22, 2013, concerning a limitation on
claims for certain specified public transportation projects. The notice
contained an incorrect description of one project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy-Ellen Zusman, Assistant Chief
Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (312) 353-2577 or Terence Plaskon,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Human and Natural
Environment, (202) 366-0442. FTA is located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue
SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Correction
In the Federal Register notice dated April 22, 2013, FR Doc. E6-
14314, on page 23817, in the third column, the Crenshaw/LAX Transit
Corridor Project was incorrectly described as a heavy rail project; a
corrected project description should read:
Project description: The project will extend light rail transit
from the existing Metro Exposition Line at Crenshaw and Exposition
Boulevards to the Metro Green Line's Aviation/LAX Station. LACMTA
proposes three modifications to the project. These modifications
resulted from refinements to design and efforts to reduce cost, to
respond to community concerns, reduce right-of-way acquisition, and
to improve circulation. The proposed modifications and refinements
include reconfiguration of a mid-block at-grade pedestrian crossing
to an undercrossing at Faithful Central Bible Church;
reconfiguration of a below-grade trench to an aerial guideway over
La Brea Avenue; and elevation of the planned at-grade Florence/La
Brea Station to street level. This notice only applies to the
discrete actions taken by FTA at this time, as described below.
Nothing in this notice affects FTA's previous decisions, or notice
thereof, for this project.
This correction does not alter the statute of limitations (SOL) for
modifications to the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project previously
noticed on April 22, 2013, and described above. The SOL on claims still
will expire on September 19, 2013.
Issued On: April 30, 2013.
Lucy Garliauskas,
Associate Administrator for Planning and Environment, Washington, DC.
[FR Doc. 2013-10512 Filed 5-2-13; 8:45 am]
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