Program Approval; Canadian National Railway, 20017-20018 [2020-07427]

Download as PDF 20017 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 69 / Thursday, April 9, 2020 / Notices The Interest Rates are: Percent Small Businesses and Small Agricultural Cooperatives ................ Non-Profit Organizations .............. 3.750 2.750 which the United States is committed under the World Trade Organization Uruguay Round Agreements (1,117,195 MTRV). USTR is allocating this additional quantity of 317,515 MTRV to the following countries in the amounts specified below: (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008) Country Jovita Carranza, Administrator. [FR Doc. 2020–07501 Filed 4–8–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8026–03–P OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Fiscal Year 2020 Allocation of Additional Tariff-Rate Quota Volume for Raw Cane Sugar and Refined Sugar Office of the United States Trade Representative. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice of the allocations of additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 inquota quantities of the tariff-rate quotas (TRQ) for imported raw cane and refined sugars as announced by the Secretary of Agriculture on April 3, 2020. DATES: This notice is applicable on April 9, 2020. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Nicholson, Office of Agricultural Affairs, at (202) 395–9419 or Erin.H.Nicholson@ustr.eop.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to Additional U.S. Note 5 to Chapter 17 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), the United States maintains TRQs for imports of raw cane and refined sugar. Section 404(d)(3) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3601(d)(3)) authorizes the President to allocate the in-quota quantity of a TRQ for any agricultural product among supplying countries or customs areas. The President delegated this authority to the United States Trade Representative under Presidential Proclamation 6763 (60 FR 1007, January 4, 1995). On April 3, 2020, the Secretary of Agriculture announced an additional inquota quantity of the TRQ for raw cane sugar for the remainder of FY 2020 (ending September 30, 2020) in the amount of 317,515 metric tons raw value (MTRV). See 85 FR 18913. The conversion factor is 1 metric ton equals 1.10231125 short tons. This quantity is in addition to the minimum amount to khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:28 Apr 08, 2020 FY 2020 raw sugar TRQ increase allocation (MTRV) Jkt 250001 Argentina .............................. Australia ................................ Barbados .............................. Belize .................................... Bolivia ................................... Brazil ..................................... Colombia ............................... Costa Rica ............................ DR ......................................... Ecuador ................................ El Salvador ........................... Eswatini (Swaziland) ............ Fiji ......................................... Guatemala ............................ Guyana ................................. Honduras .............................. India ...................................... Malawi ................................... Mauritius ............................... Mozambique ......................... Nicaragua ............................. Panama ................................ Peru ...................................... South Africa .......................... Thailand ................................ Zimbabwe ............................. Month FY 2020 refined sugar TRQ increased allocation (MTRV) Day May ........... June .......... June .......... June .......... 18 1 15 29 12,000 12,000 12,000 10,437 No certificate for quota eligibility is required for sugar entering under the 19,185 global TRQ for refined sugar. 37,032 3,123 4,908 3,569 64,694 10,708 6,692 30,000 4,908 11,600 7,139 4,015 21,417 5,354 4,462 3,569 4,462 5,354 5,800 9,369 10,000 18,293 10,262 6,246 5,354 Gregory Doud, Chief Agricultural Negotiator. Office of the United States Trade Representative. [FR Doc. 2020–07502 Filed 4–8–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3290–F0–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Railroad Administration [Docket No. FRA–2020–0014] Program Approval; Canadian National Railway Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice of approval. AGENCY: FRA is issuing this notice to explain its rationale for approving a Canadian National Railway (CN) Total ............................... 317,515 petition for a Test Program designed to test track inspection technologies (i.e., an autonomous track geometry USTR based these allocations on the measurement system) and new countries’ historical shipments to the United States. The allocations of the raw operational approaches to track cane sugar TRQ to countries that are net inspections and its rationale for granting a limited, temporary suspension of a importers of sugar are conditioned on substantive FRA rule that is necessary to receipt of the appropriate verifications facilitate the conduct of the Test of origin, and certificates for quota Program. eligibility must accompany imports from any country for which an FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yuallocation has been provided. Jiang Zhang, Staff Director, Track The Secretary of Agriculture also Division, Office of Railroad Safety, FRA, announced an increase in the FY 2020 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, refined sugar TRQ of 181,437 MTRV. Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) USTR is allocating 5,000 MTRV of the 493–6460 or email yujiang.zhang@ additional quantity to Canada and the dot.gov; Aaron Moore, Attorney, Office rest of the increase (176,437 MTRV) to of Chief Counsel, FRA, 1200 New Jersey the global tariff-rate quota, which may Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, be supplied by any country on a firsttelephone (202) 493–7009 or email come, first-served basis in seven aaron.moore@dot.gov. tranches as follows: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 11, 2019, CN petitioned FRA FY 2020 under Title 49 Code of Federal refined sugar Regulations (CFR) Section 211.51 to TRQ Month Day increased suspend certain requirements of FRA’s allocation track safety regulations to conduct a (MTRV) program to test new track inspection April ........... 13 95,000 technologies (i.e., an autonomous track April ........... 27 20,000 geometry measurement system) and new May ........... 11 15,000 operational approaches to track PO 00000 Frm 00098 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\09APN1.SGM 09APN1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES 20018 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 69 / Thursday, April 9, 2020 / Notices inspections. CN also submitted a written Test Program providing a description of the proposed tests and the geographic scope of the testing territory. The Test Program specifies that the tests will be conducted on approximately 1,204 miles of main line and siding tracks on CN’s corridor between Chicago and New Orleans, spanning 11 subdivisions. The Test Program is designed to test autonomous track geometry measurement systems and gradually decrease manual visual inspections as an alternative to FRA’s inspection frequency requirements. CN indicates that it will continue to use other inspection technologies during the Test Program, including: (1) Vehicle Track Interaction monitoring systems; (2) ultrasonic rail inspection systems; and (3) optical joint bar inspection systems. The Test Program will be carried out in four separate phases over the course of 12 months, as detailed in Exhibit C of the Test Program (available for review at www.regulations.gov (docket number FRA–2020–0014)). After review and analysis of CN’s petition for a Test Program, subject to certain conditions designed to ensure safety, FRA approved CN’s Test Program and suspended the requirements of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) 1 and (c) as necessary to carry out the Test Program. A copy of FRA’s letter approving CN’s Test Program and granting the requested limited temporary suspension of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) and (c), as well as a complete copy of the Test Program, is available in docket number FRA–2020– 0014 at www.regulations.gov. FRA’s letter approving CN’s Test Program and granting the requested limited temporary suspension of certain regulations specifically details the conditions CN will need to undertake during the Test Program. As required by 49 CFR 211.51(c), FRA is providing this explanatory statement describing the Test Program. As explained more fully in its approval letter, FRA finds that the temporary, limited suspension of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) and (c) is necessary to the conduct of the approved Test Program, which is specifically designed to evaluate the effectiveness of new automated track inspection technologies and operational methods. Furthermore, FRA also finds that the scope and application of the granted suspension of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) and (c) as applied to the Test Program are limited to that necessary to conduct the Test Program. Finally, FRA’s approval letter outlines 1 The suspension of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) only applies to Phases 3 and 4 of the Test Program. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:28 Apr 08, 2020 Jkt 250001 the conditions of the Test Program that will ensure standards sufficient to assure safety. John Karl Alexy, Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, Chief Safety Officer. 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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 69 (Thursday, April 9, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20017-20018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07427]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket No. FRA-2020-0014]


Program Approval; Canadian National Railway

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of approval.

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SUMMARY: FRA is issuing this notice to explain its rationale for 
approving a Canadian National Railway (CN) petition for a Test Program 
designed to test track inspection technologies (i.e., an autonomous 
track geometry measurement system) and new operational approaches to 
track inspections and its rationale for granting a limited, temporary 
suspension of a substantive FRA rule that is necessary to facilitate 
the conduct of the Test Program.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yu-Jiang Zhang, Staff Director, Track 
Division, Office of Railroad Safety, FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 
Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) 493-6460 or email 
[email protected]; Aaron Moore, Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, 
FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) 
493-7009 or email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 11, 2019, CN petitioned FRA 
under Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 211.51 to 
suspend certain requirements of FRA's track safety regulations to 
conduct a program to test new track inspection technologies (i.e., an 
autonomous track geometry measurement system) and new operational 
approaches to track

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inspections. CN also submitted a written Test Program providing a 
description of the proposed tests and the geographic scope of the 
testing territory.
    The Test Program specifies that the tests will be conducted on 
approximately 1,204 miles of main line and siding tracks on CN's 
corridor between Chicago and New Orleans, spanning 11 subdivisions.
    The Test Program is designed to test autonomous track geometry 
measurement systems and gradually decrease manual visual inspections as 
an alternative to FRA's inspection frequency requirements. CN indicates 
that it will continue to use other inspection technologies during the 
Test Program, including: (1) Vehicle Track Interaction monitoring 
systems; (2) ultrasonic rail inspection systems; and (3) optical joint 
bar inspection systems. The Test Program will be carried out in four 
separate phases over the course of 12 months, as detailed in Exhibit C 
of the Test Program (available for review at www.regulations.gov 
(docket number FRA-2020-0014)).
    After review and analysis of CN's petition for a Test Program, 
subject to certain conditions designed to ensure safety, FRA approved 
CN's Test Program and suspended the requirements of 49 CFR 
213.233(b)(3) \1\ and (c) as necessary to carry out the Test Program. A 
copy of FRA's letter approving CN's Test Program and granting the 
requested limited temporary suspension of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) and (c), 
as well as a complete copy of the Test Program, is available in docket 
number FRA-2020-0014 at www.regulations.gov. FRA's letter approving 
CN's Test Program and granting the requested limited temporary 
suspension of certain regulations specifically details the conditions 
CN will need to undertake during the Test Program. As required by 49 
CFR 211.51(c), FRA is providing this explanatory statement describing 
the Test Program.
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    \1\ The suspension of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) only applies to 
Phases 3 and 4 of the Test Program.
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    As explained more fully in its approval letter, FRA finds that the 
temporary, limited suspension of 49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) and (c) is 
necessary to the conduct of the approved Test Program, which is 
specifically designed to evaluate the effectiveness of new automated 
track inspection technologies and operational methods. Furthermore, FRA 
also finds that the scope and application of the granted suspension of 
49 CFR 213.233(b)(3) and (c) as applied to the Test Program are limited 
to that necessary to conduct the Test Program. Finally, FRA's approval 
letter outlines the conditions of the Test Program that will ensure 
standards sufficient to assure safety.

John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-07427 Filed 4-8-20; 8:45 am]
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