[Federal Register: August 28, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 167)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

49 CFR Part 213

[Docket No. RST-90-1, Notice No. 9]
RIN 2130-AA75

 
Technical Amendments to the Track Safety Standards

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

ACTION: Final rule; corrections.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Railroad Administration published in the Federal 
Register of June 22, 1998 (63 FR 33992), a final rule to revise the 
Track Safety Standards contained in 49 CFR part 213. The publication 
included several inadvertent errors which this notice corrects.

DATES: Effective on September 28, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allison H. MacDowell, Office of Safety 
Assurance and Compliance, Federal Railroad Administration, 400 Seventh 
Street, S.W., Mail Stop 25, Washington, D.C. 20590 (telephone: 202-493-
6236), or Nancy Lummen Lewis, Office of Chief Counsel, Federal Railroad 
Administration, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Mail Stop 10, Washington, 
D.C. 20590 (telephone: 202-493-6047).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FRA published a final rule in the Federal 
Register of June 22, 1998, (63 FR 33992), which, effective September 
21, 1998, will replace the Track Safety Standards in 49 CFR part 213. 
The final rule, however, contained several inadvertent errors which are 
corrected in this notice.
    In the final rule published June 22, 1998, (63 FR 33992), make the 
following corrections:
    On page 34000, second column, fourth paragraph, remove ``Sec. 213.1 
(Penalties)'' and replace with ``Sec. 213.15 (Penalties)''.
    On page 34002, first column, remove the last sentence of the third 
paragraph which states, ``With the elimination of the current text of 
subsection (d), this subsection now designated as (e) would become 
subsection (d).''
    On page 34033, remove the first sentence of Sec. 213.53(g)(4), and 
replace with the following sentence: ``The track owner or railroad 
operates an instrumented car having dynamic response characteristics 
that are representative of other equipment assigned to service or a 
portable device that monitors on-board instrumentation on trains over 
the curves in the identified track segment at the revenue speed profile 
at a frequency of at least once every 90-day period with not less than 
30 days interval between inspections.''
    On page 34034, in footnote 1 for the track surface table, replace 
the parenthetical sentence with the following sentence: ``(Footnote 1 
is applicable September 21, 1999.)''
    On page 34042, in Sec. 213.305(b)(1)(ii), remove the final period 
and replace with a semi-colon followed by the word ``or''.
    On page 34049, remove the first sentence of Sec. 213.343 and 
replace with the following sentence: ``Each track owner with track 
constructed of CWR shall have in effect and comply with written 
procedures which address the installation, adjustment, maintenance and 
inspection of CWR, and a training program for the application of those 
procedures, which shall be submitted to the Federal Railroad 
Administration by March 21, 1999.''
    On page 34053, in Sec. 213.365(e), replace the word ``crossover'' 
with the words ``track crossing.''
    On page 34054, under ``Appendix B to part 213--Schedule of Civil 
Penalties,'' remove footnote 2 from 213.4(e)(1), 213.4(e)(2), 
213.4(e)(3), and 213.4(e)(4).

    Dated: August 21, 1998.
Edward R. English,
Director, Office of Safety Assurance and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 98-23016 Filed 8-27-98; 8:45 am]
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