Action
Notice of Railroad Safety Advisory Committee Task Acceptance.
Summary
Pursuant to the President's March 4, 1995, directive regarding regulatory reinvention, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) conducted an intensive review of its regulations and committed itself to eliminating and reinventing over 95 pages of regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) by June 1, 1996. Consistent with the President's initiative on reinventing government, FRA chartered a new Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) for consensual rulemaking and deliberation on key railroad safety issues. At the Committee's inaugural meeting on April 1-2, 1996, the RSAC accepted regulatory reinvention of: power brake systems for freight equipment (49 CFR Part 232), the Track Safety Standards (49 CFR Part 213), and the Radio Standards and Procedures (49 CFR Part 220). In addition, FRA has decided that the Passenger Equipment Safety Standards and Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness working groups, which currently are addressing the reinvention of 49 CFR Part 223, Safety Glazing Standards, and the steam locomotive standards working group, which currently is addressing the reinvention of 49 CFR Part 230, Steam Locomotive Inspection, should all continue their operation under the aegis of the RSAC.