30 day Federal Register Notice

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Abandonments to abandon 1.96 miles of
rail line between mileposts 0.00 and
1.96, in Duluth, St. Louis County,
Minn.1 The line traverses United States
Postal Service Zip Code 55808.
DMIR has certified that: (1) No local
traffic has moved over the line for at
least 2 years; (2) there is no overhead
traffic on the line; (3) no formal
complaint filed by a user of rail service
on the line (or by a state or local
government entity acting on behalf of
such user) regarding cessation of service
over the line either is pending with the
Surface Transportation Board (Board) or
with any U.S. District Court or has been
decided in favor of complainant within
the 2-year period; and (4) the
requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(c)
(environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.11
(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12
(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR
1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental
agencies) have been met.
As a condition to this exemption, any
employee adversely affected by the
abandonment shall be protected under
Oregon Short Line Railroad—
Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch
Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham &
Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C.
91 (1979). To address whether this
condition adequately protects affected
employees, a petition for partial
revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
must be filed.
Provided no formal expression of
intent to file an offer of financial
assistance (OFA) has been received, this
exemption will become effective on July
15, 2011, unless stayed pending
reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do
not involve environmental issues,2
formal expressions of intent to file an
OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),3 and
trail use/rail banking requests under 49
CFR 1152.29 must be filed by June 27,
2011. Petitions to reopen or requests for
public use conditions under 49 CFR
1152.28 must be filed by July 5, 2011,
with the Surface Transportation Board,
395 E Street, SW., Washington, DC
20423–0001.
A copy of any petition filed with the
Board should be sent to DMIR’s

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1 DMIR

is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian
National Railway Company.
2 The Board will grant a stay if an informed
decision on environmental issues (whether raised
by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental
Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation)
cannot be made before the exemption’s effective
date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. Rail Lines, 5
I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any request for a stay should
be filed as soon as possible so that the Board may
take appropriate action before the exemption’s
effective date.
3 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing
fee, which is currently set at $1,500. See 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(25).

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representative: Thomas J. Healey, 17641
S. Ashland Ave., Homewood, IL 60430.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio.
DMIR has filed a combined
environmental and historic report
which addresses the effects, if any, of
the abandonment on the environment
and historic resources. OEA will issue
an environmental assessment (EA) by
June 20, 2011. Interested persons may
obtain a copy of the EA by writing to
OEA (Room 1100, Surface
Transportation Board, Washington, DC
20423–0001) or by calling OEA, at (202)
245–0305. Assistance for the hearing
impaired is available through the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339. Comments
on environmental and historic
preservation matters must be filed
within 15 days after the EA becomes
available to the public.
Environmental, historic preservation,
public use, or trail use/rail banking
conditions will be imposed, where
appropriate, in a subsequent decision.
Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR
1152.29(e)(2), DMIR shall file a notice of
consummation with the Board to signify
that it has exercised the authority
granted and fully abandoned the line. If
consummation has not been effected by
DMIR’s filing of a notice of
consummation by June 15, 2012, and
there are no legal or regulatory barriers
to consummation, the authority to
abandon will automatically expire.
Board decisions and notices are
available on our Web site at http://
www.stb.dot.gov.
Decided: June 8, 2011.
By the Board.
Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
AGENCY:

Surface Transportation Board,

DOT.
30-Day notice of submission of
information collection approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
and request for comments.

ACTION:

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As part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process to seek feedback from the
public on service delivery, the Surface
Transportation Board has submitted a
Generic Information Collection Request
(Generic ICR): ‘‘Generic Clearance for
the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery ’’ to OMB
for approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et.
seq.).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
July 11, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
directed to the Office of Management
and Budget, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Kimberly
Nelson, Surface Transportation Board
Desk Officer, by fax at (202) 395–6974;
by mail at Room 10235, 725 17th Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20503; or by email at:
[email protected].
SUMMARY:

To
request additional information, please
contact Marilyn Levitt, Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20423–0001, or to:
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
Abstract: The information collection
activity will garner qualitative customer
and stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
Administration’s commitment to
improving service delivery. By
qualitative feedback we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the
Agency and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data
that can be generalized to the overall
population. This type of generic
clearance for qualitative information
will not be used for quantitative

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information collections that are
designed to yield reliably actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance. Such data uses require
more rigorous designs that address: The
target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
The Agency received no comments in
response to the 60-day notice published
in the Federal Register of December 22,
2010 (75 FR 80542).
Below we provide the Surface
Transportation Board’s projected
average estimates for the next three
years:1
Current Actions: New collection of
information.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Affected Public: Individuals and
Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Average Expected Annual Number of
activities: 5.
Respondents: 15 (for one focus group),
150 (for each of two surveys), 200 (for
each of two comments card requests).
Annual responses: 15 (for focus
groups), 300 (for surveys), 400 (for
comment cards)
Frequency of Response: Once per
request.
Average minutes per response: 24
minutes (2 hours per focus group, 36
minutes per survey, 10 minutes per
comment card).
Burden hours: 277.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
1 The 60-day notice included the following
estimate of the aggregate burden hours for this
generic clearance Federal-wide:
Average Expected Annual Number of activities:
25,000.
Average number of Respondents per Activity:
200.
Annual responses: 5,000,000.
Frequency of Response: Once per request.
Average minutes per response: 30.
Burden hours: 2,500,000.

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Office of Management and Budget
control number.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. FD 35524]

Canexus Chemicals Canada L.P. v.
BNSF Railway Company
AGENCY:

Surface Transportation Board,

DOT.
ACTION:

Notice of Oral Argument.

In a decision served on June
8, 2011, the Board announced that it has
tentatively scheduled an oral argument
in this complaint proceeding.
Dates/Location: The oral argument is
tentatively scheduled to be held
Thursday, June 23, 2011, at 2 p.m., or
at a later time that afternoon designated
by the Board, in the hearing room at the
Board’s headquarters located at 395 E
Street, SW., Washington, DC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Joseph Dettmar, (202) 245–0395.
Assistance for the hearing impaired is
available through the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at:
(800) 877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Canexus
Chemicals Canada L.P. (Canexus) has
filed a complaint with a request for
expedited consideration. The complaint
asks the Board to issue an order
compelling BNSF Railway Company
(BNSF) to establish common carrier
rates and service terms effective July 1,
2011, between North Vancouver, B.C.,
and Kansas City, Mo., and between
Marshall, Wash., and Kansas City, Mo.
Currently, BNSF is hauling Canexus
shipments of chlorine from North
Vancouver and Marshall to Kansas City
in joint line service under temporary
rates that terminate on June 30, 2011.
According to the complaint, BNSF
interchanges with Union Pacific
Railroad Company (UP) in Kansas City
and the shipments are hauled by UP to
their final destinations in Illinois,
Texas, and Arkansas. Canexus states
that BNSF will terminate the interline
service with UP through Kansas City
after the temporary rates expire. Instead,
BNSF has offered to interchange with
UP at Spokane, Wash. (for movements
originating from Marshall), and
Portland, Or. (for movements originating
from North Vancouver).
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In the June 8, 2011 decision, the
Board directed BNSF by June 15, 2011,
to submit its argument as to whether
BNSF has a legal obligation to provide
the specific service to Kansas City that
Canexus has requested and to establish
an appropriate rate. The Board noted
that UP has an interest in this matter as
a carrier involved in these movements.
Accordingly, the Board also directed UP
by June 15, 2011, to submit a pleading
addressing its legal obligation, if any, to
interchange with BNSF at Spokane and
Portland. Lastly, in the decision, the
Board advised Canexus, BNSF, and UP
that the Board may, following the
receipt of the pleadings, convene an oral
hearing to receive testimony from
Canexus and the two railroads during
the afternoon of June 23, 2011, at the
Board’s headquarters. If the Board
determines that a hearing is necessary,
it will issue a subsequent notice setting
the time no later than June 16, 2011.
This action will not significantly
affect either the human environment or
the conservation of energy resources.
Decided: June 10, 2011.
By the Board.
Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
Release of Waybill Data
The Surface Transportation Board has
received a request from Sidley Austin
LLP on behalf of Norfolk Southern
Railway Company (WB484–1—6/7/11),
for permission to use certain data from
the Board’s 2000–2009 Carload Waybill
Samples. A copy of the request may be
obtained from the Office of Economics.
The waybill sample contains
confidential railroad and shipper data;
therefore, if any parties object to these
requests, they should file their
objections with the Director of the
Board’s Office of Economics within 14
calendar days of the date of this notice.
The rules for release of waybill data are
codified at 49 CFR 1244.9.
Contact: Scott Decker, (202) 245–
0330.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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