Railroad consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions of control: Safety integration plans; correction,

[Federal Register: February 1, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 20)]

[Proposed Rules]

[Page 4833-4834]

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[DOCID:fr01fe99-27]

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

49 CFR Part 244

[FRA Docket No. FRA-1999-4985, Notice No. 2]

RIN 2130-AB24

Regulations on Safety Integration Plans Governing Railroad Consolidations, Mergers, Acquisitions of Control, and Start Up Operations; Correction

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

SUMMARY: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) corrects the docket number entry identified in the proposed rule that was published in the Federal Register on December 31, 1998, 63 FR 72225, Dec. 31, 1998, regarding Regulations on Safety Integration Plans Governing Railroad Consolidations, Mergers, Acquisitions of Control, and Start Up Operations. The previous docket number for the agency's proposed rule was ``FRA Docket No. SIP-1.'' The new docket number is ``FRA-1999- 4985.'' FRA informs the public that it will nevertheless receive and file comments from interested persons in the administrative record for this rulemaking action that identified the proposed rule as FRA Docket No. SIP-1. FRA also advises the regulated community that this notice does not affect the Surface Transportation Board's (STB or Board) docket number for comments on the Board's proposed rule in the joint rulemaking proceeding.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jon Kaplan, Trial Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, FRA, 1120 Vermont Avenue, Mailstop 10, Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202) 493-6053).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 18, 1998, FRA and the STB issued a joint rule proposing regulations for the development and implementation of safety integration plans (SIPs) by railroads seeking to engage in certain specified merger, consolidation, or acquisition of control transactions with another railroad. 63 FR 72225, Dec. 31, 1998. FRA identified the docket number corresponding to its rulemaking action as ``FRA Docket No. SIP-1'' in the caption and address section of the document. Due to consolidation of FRA's docket facilities with those of other DOT operating administrations into a centralized docket management system, however, FRA's docket numbering system has changed. The central docket facility styles dockets received in its electronic docket system as, for example, ``FRA-1999-xxxx.'' For this reason, the docket number assigned to FRA's portion of the SIP rule is now ``FRA- 1999-4985,'' and commenters should use this docket number when commenting on FRA's proposed rule. (Interested parties should continue to refer to STB Ex Parte No. 574 when commenting on the Board's proposed rule.) FRA will, however, receive and docket comments filedby interested persons responding to the agency's proposed rule that identified the action as ``FRA Docket No. SIP-1.''

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Issued in Washington, DC on January 26, 1999. Michael T. Haley, Deputy Chief Counsel.

[FR Doc. 99-2253Filed1-29-99; 8:45 am]

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