Notice2025-02835
Petition for Waiver of Compliance
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Published
February 20, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Railroad Administration
Abstract
This document provides the public notice that by letter dated January 24, 2025, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) revised its request for relief to permit the replacement of wheelsets on rail cars as part of CPKC's In-train Wheelset Replacement Program.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 33 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10032-10033]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02835]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA-2024-0079]
Petition for Waiver of Compliance
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This document provides the public notice that by letter dated
January 24, 2025, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) revised its
request for relief to permit the replacement of wheelsets on rail cars
as part of CPKC's In-train Wheelset Replacement Program.
DATES: Comments: FRA must receive comments on the petition by March 24,
2025. FRA will consider comments received after that date to the extent
practicable.
ADDRESSES:
Comments: Comments related to this docket may be submitted by going
to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and following the online instructions
for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
docket number. All comments received will be posted without change to
<a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>; this includes any personal information.
Please see the Privacy Act heading in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document for Privacy Act information related to any
submitted comments or materials.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and follow the
online instructions for accessing the docket.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leith Al-Nazer, Mechanical Engineer,
Motive Power and Equipment Division, FRA, telephone: 202-493-6128,
email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1e727b776a76307f7233707f647b6c5e7a716a30797168"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b5d9d0dcc1dd9bd4d998dbd4cfd0c7f5d1dac19bd2dac3">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under part 211 of title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), this document provides the public notice that by
letter dated January 24, 2025, CPKC revised its request for relief in
Docket Number FRA-2024-0079.
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Specifically, CPKC amended its previously filed request for relief
from the requirements of 49 CFR 232.305(b)(2), Single car air brake
tests, to ``permit the replacement of wheel-sets on rail cars as part
of CPKC's In-train Wheelset Replacement Program . . . without the need
to also perform the [single car air brake test (SCABT)]'' as required.
CPKC's initial request dated June 26, 2024, explained the program would
be used only at CPKC's International Freight Gateway intermodal
facility in Kansas City, Missouri. In its January 24, 2025, submission,
CPKC states that it also seeks implement this program in its Laredo
Yard in Laredo, Texas.
In its January 24, 2025, petition, CPKC again explained that the
program ``proactively address[es] wheel defects before they create
potential risks to safe railroad operations'' by identifying and
changing the wheels while a crew remains on the lead locomotive. CPKC
also indicated that it consulted with the Brotherhood Railway Carmen
Division, Transportation Communications Union, which supports the
program and request.
A copy of the revised petition, as well as any written
communications concerning the petition, is available for review online
at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
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.
Communications received by March 24, 2025 will be considered by FRA
before final action is taken. Comments received after that date will be
considered if practicable.
Privacy Act
Anyone can search the electronic form of any written communications
and comments received into any of FRA's 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 inform
its processes. DOT posts these comments, without edit, including any
personal information the commenter provides, to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, as
described in the system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can
be reviewed at <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/privacy">https://www.transportation.gov/privacy</a>. See also <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/privacy-notice">https://www.regulations.gov/privacy-notice</a> for the privacy notice of
<a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>.
Issued in Washington, DC.
John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-02835 Filed 2-19-25; 8:45 am]
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