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Notice of test program and public hearing.
FRA is planning to conduct a test program of rail operations involving use of remotely controlled locomotives to evaluate the safety of this new technology in which a person can operate a locomotive by means of a radio remote-control device while not physically within the confines of a locomotive cab.