[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20940-20941]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-07322]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

[Docket Number FRA-2003-15010]


Petition for Extension of Waiver of Compliance

    Under part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), this 
document provides the public notice that on February 28, 2023, Canadian 
Pacific Railway (CP) petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration 
(FRA) for an extension of a waiver of compliance from certain 
provisions of the Federal railroad safety regulations contained at 49 
CFR part 241 (United States Locational Requirements for Dispatching of 
United States Rail Operations). The relevant Docket Number is FRA-2003-
15010.
    Specifically, CP requests an extension of relief and permanent 
waiver pursuant to 49 CFR 241.7(c), Fringe border dispatching, to allow 
the continuation of Canadian dispatching of three locations in the 
United States: (1) 1.8 miles of the Windsor Subdivision between 
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and Detroit, Michigan, United States; \1\ and 
(2) two track segments totaling 23.44 miles on the Newport Subdivision 
between Richford, Vermont, and East Richford, Vermont, United States 
and between North Troy, Vermont, and Newport, Vermont, United 
States.\2\ CP notes that all locations are dispatched by the Operations 
Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In support of its request, CP 
states that ``in the approximately twenty years since the original 
waiver was granted, CP has operated safely on the Windsor Subdivision 
and has operated safe[ly] on the Newport Subdivision since the 
acquisition of this territory in 2020.''
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    \1\ This section on the Windsor Subdivision is defined in 
appendix A to part 241, List of Lines Being Extraterritorially 
Dispatched in Accordance with the Regulations Contained in 49 CFR 
part 241, Revised as of October 1, 2002.
    \2\ The track segments on the Newport Subdivision cross the 
U.S./Canada border at three separate locations.
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    A copy of the petition, as well as any written communications 
concerning the petition, is available for review online at 
www.regulations.gov.
    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 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 at http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Communications received by June 6, 2023 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), the U.S. Department of Transportation (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

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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/privacy-notice for the privacy notice of 
regulations.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC.
John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-07322 Filed 4-6-23; 8:45 am]
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