Safety Appliance Checklist Forms 60-day Federal Register Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA 2012–0006–N–5]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
its implementing regulations, the
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
hereby announces that it is seeking
approval for the new Safety Appliance
Standards Guidance Checklist form
listed below. Before submitting
information collection requirements
(ICRs) for clearance by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), FRA is
required to solicit public comment on
specific aspects of the activities
identified below.
DATES: Comments must be received no
later than August 13, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on any or all of the following proposed
activities by mail to either: Mr. Robert
Brogan, Office of Safety, Planning and
Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal
Railroad Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 25,
Washington, DC 20590, or Ms. Kimberly
Toone, Office of Information
Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave.
SE. Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC
20590. Commenters requesting FRA to
acknowledge receipt of their respective
comments must include a self-addressed
stamped postcard stating, ‘‘Comments
on OMB control number 2130–0565.’’
Alternatively, comments may be
transmitted via facsimile to (202) 493–
6216 or (202) 493–6479, or via email to
Mr. Brogan at Robert.Brogan@dot.gov, or
to Ms. Toone at
Kimberly.Toone@dot.gov. Please refer to
the assigned OMB control number in
any correspondence submitted. FRA
will summarize comments received in
response to this notice in a subsequent
notice and include them in its
information collection submission to
OMB for approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robert Brogan, Office of Planning and
Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal
Railroad Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 21,
Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202)
493–6292) or Ms. Kimberly Toone,
Office of Information Technology, RAD–
20, Federal Railroad Administration,

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SUMMARY:

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1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 35,
Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202)
493–6132). (These telephone numbers
are not toll-free.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), Public Law 104–13, § 2, 109 Stat.
163 (1995) (codified as revised at 44
U.S.C. 3501–3520), and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to
provide 60-days notice to the public for
comment on information collection
activities before seeking approval for
reinstatement or renewal by OMB. 44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1),
1320.10(e)(1), 1320.12(a). Specifically,
FRA invites interested respondents to
comment on the following summary of
proposed information collection
activities regarding (i) Whether the
information collection activities are
necessary for FRA to properly execute
its functions, including whether the
activities will have practical utility; (ii)
the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the
burden of the information collection
activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimates; (iii) ways for
FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (iv) ways for FRA to
minimize the burden of information
collection activities on the public by
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology (e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses). See 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)(I)–(iv); 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1)(I)–(iv). FRA believes that
soliciting public comment will promote
its efforts to reduce the administrative
and paperwork burdens associated with
the collection of information mandated
by Federal regulations. In summary,
FRA reasons that comments received
will advance three objectives: (i) Reduce
reporting burdens; (ii) ensure that it
organizes information collection
requirements in a ‘‘user friendly’’ format
to improve the use of such information;
and (iii) accurately assess the resources
expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C.
3501.
Below is a brief summary of the
currently approved ICRs that FRA will
submit for clearance by OMB as
required under the PRA:
Title: Safety Appliance Concern
Recommendation Report; Safety
Appliance Standards Guidance
Checklist Forms.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0565.
Abstract: Sample car/locomotive
inspections are performed as a courtesy

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to the car manufacturers to ensure that
the equipment is built in accordance
with all applicable Federal regulations
and requirements. Car builders that
desire to have FRA review their
equipment for compliance with safety
standards are to submit their safety
appliance arrangement drawings, prints,
etc., to the FRA Office of Safety
Assurance and Compliance for review at
least 60 days prior to construction. The
sample car inspection program is
designed to provide assurance that
rolling stock equipment is compliant
within the Code of Federal Regulations
for use on the general railroad system.
Although a sample car inspection is not
required, most builders today request
FRA to perform the inspection. The goal
of the sample car inspection program is
to reduce risk to railroad employees and
improve passenger safety for the general
public by ensuring rolling stock is fully
compliant with all applicable
regulations.
In an ongoing effort to conduct more
thorough and more effective inspections
of freight railroad equipment and to
further enhance safe rail operations,
FRA has developed a safety concern
recommendation report form and a
group of guidance checklist forms that
facilitate railroad, rail car owner, and
rail equipment manufacturer
compliance with agency Railroad Safety
Appliance Standards regulations. New
form FRA F 6180.EZ is designed to
reduce burden on respondents. When a
request for sample car inspection
incoming letter is provided by the
customer, an abundant of amount of
information is submitted to FRA for
review that may require a formal on-site
inspection. The information contained
in the letter includes several paragraphs
to explain the cited Code of Federal
Regulations that the customer believes
related to the construction of the car.
Since many cars today are considered a
car of special construction, the type of
car to be reviewed, many times the
amount of details of information are
supplied to support why the customer
believes the car submitted is the nearest
car to construction. An abundance of
factors with justification to support the
car type is included in the request.
Some examples would be a Logo,
Company Name, and signature block,
specific drawings, reflectorization,
engineering information such as test or
modeling of components. Also, the
request may include car reporting
marks, the amount of cars that would be
constructed in the car series. In
addition, the request would provide the
location of the inspection, contact
person, title, and contact information.

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Currently, each request is written
differently, but contains most of the
information to process the request to
completion. The F6180.EZ Form
provides specific blocks that contain a
standardized format to provide specific
information that is in an easy to fill-in
the form arrangement. This would
greatly reduce the amount of time to
complete the form instead of a long form
letter and additional sample car
inspection request of similar car orders
would be minimized by the information
provided previously. By having a form
of this nature, the customer will have
the information visually that would be
required, to eliminate the potential of
missing information that then causes
additional letters to complete the
incoming package. FRA could
potentially be able to provide a cursory
review of the provided information to
ensure the package is complete without
having to constantly compare the

request letter to the supplied
documents.
The FRA region responsible for the
sample car field sample car inspection
is obliged to formally inspect the car for
compliance. All the information in the
customer request is forwarded to the
region for review. Once the inspection
is completed, the assigned inspector
provides his report in a memorandum to
the MP&E Specialist. The MP&E
Specialist reviews the documents and
provides a memo to the Regional
Administrator who sends a response by
memorandum to FRA Headquarters of
the finding from the field inspection.
The additional memorandums would be
eliminated by the F6180.4 EZ just by a
grid sign-off, reducing the amount of
additional paperwork and filing
documents.
FRA Headquarters is responsible for
gathering all the information from the
request from the customer as well as
assigning and forwarding the

information to the Region. All the
information is reviewed by the MP&E
Specialist at Headquarters. The MP&E
Specialist prepares a grid letter response
for the MP&E Staff Director who then
offers the response letter to the Director,
Office of Safety Assurance and
Compliance. The formal response letter
is then sent to the customer through the
Control Correspondence Management
(CCM) system. The filing system and
folders today are already large in size,
and would be reduced by having a form
that is on one piece of paper with all the
information necessary to complete the
process from the initial request for
sample car inspection to the formal
response letter provided.
Form Number(s): New Form FRA
F 6180.4EZ; current Forms FRA
6180.4(a)–(q).
Affected Public: Businesses.
Respondent Universe: 130 Federal
and State Inspectors.
Frequency of Submission: Annually.

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New Form FRA F 6180.4EZ ...........................
Current Form FRA F 6180.4a .........................
Current Form FRA F 6180.4b .........................
Current Form FRA F 6180.4c .........................
Current Form FRA F 6180.4d .........................
New Form FRA F 6180.4e .............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4f ..............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4g .............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4h .............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4i ...............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4j ...............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4K .............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4l ...............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4m ............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4p .............................
New Form FRA F 6180.4q .............................

Total Responses: 232.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 244
hours.
Status: Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5
CFR 1320.5(b), 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA
informs all interested parties that it may
not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.

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responses
(forms)

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Issued in Washington, DC, on June 6, 2012.
Rebecca Pennington,
Director, Office of Financial Management,
Federal Railroad Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012–14286 Filed 6–11–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA–2012–0042]

Petition for Waiver of Compliance
In accordance with Part 211 of Title
49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR),
this document provides the public
notice that by a document dated March
22, 2012, CSX Transportation (CSX) has

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Average time
per response
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70
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Total annual
burden hours
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petitioned the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) for a waiver of
compliance from certain provisions of
the Federal railroad safety regulations
contained at 49 CFR Part 236. FRA
assigned the petition Docket Number
FRA–2012–0042.
CSX seeks relief from the
requirements of 49 CFR Part 236, Rules,
Standards, and Instructions Governing
the Installation, Inspection,
Maintenance, and Repair of Signal and
Train Control Systems, Devices, and
Appliances; and Section 236.109, Time
releases, timing relays and timing
devices. CSX requests relief from 49
CFR 236.109 as it applies to variable
timers within the program logic of the
operating software of microprocessorbased equipment.

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