FRA Publishes RSAC Meeting Notice – 10-31-13

The Federal Railroad Administration published a meeting notice in today’s fiscal fiasco shortened Federal Register (78 FR 62002-62003) for the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee. The October 31^st meeting will be held in Washington, DC.

The topics to be addressed in the meeting include reports by the following working groups:

• Train Crew Size;

• Securement;

• Hazardous Material Issues;

• Fatigue Management;

• Rail Failure; and

• Risk Reduction 

This is a very short notice and does not include the standard verbiage about public comments, either written or verbal. I suppose we should be happy that there was someone at the FRA to prepare this shortened meeting notice so that it could be published in a timely manner in the Federal Register.

BTW: There are some interesting documents on the RSAC web site from the August 29^th emergency meeting about the Canadian oil train derailment response. I may have a blog post on these this weekend.