Action
Notice of Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (``RSAC'') meeting.
Summary
As required by Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), and 41 CFR 101-6.1015(b), the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) gives notice of a meeting of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (``RSAC'). The meeting is designed to accomplish several things: (1) The RSAC's evaluation for consensus approval of the Railroad Communications working group's proposal for the revision of the railroad communications standards contained in 49 CFR part 220; (2) the RSAC's receipt of status reports, containing progress information, from the Power Brake working group (to revise the power brake regulations contained in 49 CFR part 232), the Locomotive Engineer Certification working group (to revise the locomotive engineer certification regulations contained in 49 CFR part 240), and the Tourist and Historic Railroads working group's Steam Standards task force (to revise the steam locomotive inspection and testing standards contained in 49 CFR part 230); (3) the RSAC's receipt of status reports from the locomotive crew safety planning group (to evaluate the agency's report to Congress on locomotive crashworthiness and crew working conditions and to assess possible future action); (4) the RSAC's receipt of status reports on several issues which are not currently tasked to the RSAC, but which are in exploratory data gathering stages: (a) the dispatcher training task force; (b) the track motor vehicles and self-propelled roadway equipment task force; (c) AAR Event recorder data survivability progress; and (d) the address of several administrative matters before the RSAC.