PART 237—BRIDGE SAFETY STANDARDS

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If an owner of track to which this part applies assigns responsibility for the bridges that carry the track to another person (by lease or otherwise),written notification of the assignment shall be provided to the appropriate FRA Regional Office at least 30 days in advance of the assignment.responsible for compliance with this part and subject to penalties.

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Bridge modification means a change to the configuration of a railroad bridge that affects the load capacity of the bridge

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Bridge repair means remediation of damage or deterioration which has affected the structural integrity of a railroad bridge.

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Each track owner shall adopt abridge safety management program to prevent the deterioration of railroad bridges by preserving their capability to safely carry the traffic to be operated over them, and reduce the risk of human casualties, environmental damage,and disruption to the Nation’s railroad transportation system that would result from a catastrophic bridge failure.

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Each bridge management program adopted in compliance with this part shall include, as a minimum, the following

identifier for each bridge, its location,

configuration, type of construction,

number of spans, span lengths, and all

other information necessary to provide

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A bridge inspection program covering as a minimum:

(1) Inspection personnel safety considerations;

(2) Types of inspection including required detail;

(3) Definitions of defect levels along with associated condition codes if condition codes are used;

(4) The method of documenting inspections

(5) Structure type and component nomenclature;

(6) Numbering or identification protocol for substructure units, spans, and individual components.

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Each track owner shall determine the load capacity of each of its railroad bridges. The load capacity need not be the ultimate or maximum load capacity, but must be a safe load capacity

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Each bridge management program shall include a provision for scheduling an inspection for each bridge in railroad service at least once in each calendar year, with not more than 540 days between any successive inspections.

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The bridge inspection procedures shall ensure that the level of detail and the inspection procedures are appropriate to: the configuration of the bridge; conditions found during previous inspections; the nature of the railroad traffic moved over the bridge(including equipment weights, train frequency and length, levels of passenger and hazardous materials traffic);and vulnerability of the bridge to damage.

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Each track owner required to implement a bridge management program and keep records under this part shall make those program documents and records available for inspection and reproduction by the Federal Railroad Administration.

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