[Federal Register: December 22, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 245)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA-1999-5756]

 
Canadian National Railway; Public Hearing

    Canadian National Railway (CN) has petitioned the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA) seeking a permanent waiver of compliance with the 
Locomotive Safety Standards, Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, 
Sec. 229.47(a), which requires each car body type road locomotive be 
equipped with an emergency brake valve attached to the wall adjacent to 
the end exit door. CN seeks this waiver for 178 car body locomotives 
built between 1985 and 1990 and used to haul freight that have never 
been equipped with an emergency brake valve at the rear exit door.
    This proceeding is identified as FRA-1999-5756. FRA issued a public 
notice seeking comments of interested parties and conducted a field 
investigation in this matter. After examining the carrier's proposal, 
letters of protest, and field report, FRA has determined that a public 
hearing is necessary before a final decision is made on this proposal.
    Accordingly, a public hearing is hereby set for 9 a.m. on Thursday, 
January 27, 2000, at FRA headquarters located at 1120 Vermont Avenue, 
NW, Washington, DC, 7th floor, Conference Room 1. Interested parties 
are invited to present oral statements at the hearing.
    The hearing will be an informal one and will be conducted in 
accordance with Rule 25 of FRA's rules of practice (49 CFR 211.25) by a 
representative designated by FRA.
    The hearing will be a nonadversary proceeding and, therefore, there 
will be no cross-examination of persons presenting statements. FRA's 
representative will make an opening statement outlining the scope of 
the hearing. After all initial statements have been completed, those 
persons wishing to make brief rebuttal statements will be given the 
opportunity to do so in the same order in which they made their initial 
statements. Additional procedures, if necessary for the conduct of the 
hearing, will be announced at the hearing.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 17, 1999.
Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety Standards and Program 
Development.
[FR Doc. 99-33208 Filed 12-21-99; 8:45 am]
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