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11.09 miles of rail line (the Line) owned
by its noncarrier corporate parent,
Midland Railway Company (Midland).
The Line extends between milepost
14.95 at Baldwin, Kan., and milepost
26.04 at Ottawa, Kan.
According to Leavenworth, Midland
and Leavenworth have executed an
agreement granting Leavenworth freight
operating rights on the Line.
Leavenworth states that it plans to
provide service under the trade name
Baldwin City & Southern Railroad
Company.
Leavenworth certifies that, as a result
of the proposed transaction, its
projected revenue will not exceed $5
million annually and will not result in
its becoming a Class I or Class II carrier.
Leavenworth states that the operating
agreement does not contain interchange
commitments.
The proposed transaction may be
consummated on or after September 4,
2019, the effective date of the exemption
(30 days after the verified notice was
filed).1
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the
exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
may be filed at any time. The filing of
a petition to revoke will not
automatically stay the effectiveness of
the exemption. Petitions for stay must
be filed no later than August 28, 2019
(at least seven days before the
exemption becomes effective).
All pleadings, referring to Docket No.
FD 36300, must be filed with the
Surface Transportation Board either via
e-filing or in writing addressed to 395 E
Street SW, Washington, DC 20423–0001.
In addition, a copy of each pleading
must be served on Leavenworth’s
representative, A.J. Stevens, Baldwin
City & Southern Railroad, 719 High
Street, P.O. Box 5, Baldwin City, KS
66006.
According to Leavenworth, this action
is exempt from environmental review
under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and from
historic reporting requirements under
49 CFR 1105.8(b).
Board decisions and notices are
available at www.stb.gov.

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Decided: August 16, 2019.
1 Leavenworth initially submitted its notice of
exemption on May 3, 2019. However, by decision
served May 31, 2019, this proceeding was held in
abeyance pending Leavenworth’s filing of
supplemental information, which it filed on June
19, 2019. Leavenworth submitted additional
supplements to correct a verification page on July
17 and August 5, 2019. As a result, August 5 is
deemed the filing date of the verified notice.

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By the Board, Allison C. Davis, Director,
Office of Proceedings.
Regena Smith-Bernard,
Clearance Clerk.
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BILLING CODE 4915–01–P

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
[Docket No. AB 1288X]

Cedar River Railroad Company—
Discontinuance of Service
Exemption—in Freeborn County, Minn
Cedar River Railroad Company
(CEDR) has filed a verified notice of
exemption under 49 CFR part 1152
subpart F—Exempt Abandonments and
Discontinuances of Service to
discontinue service over approximately
9.3 miles of railroad line between
milepost 85.0 in London Township (at
the southwestern quadrant of the
intersection of County Road 107 and
Township Road 264) and milepost 94.32
at Glenville, in Freeborn County, Minn.
(the Line). The Line traverses U.S.
Postal Service Zip Code 56036.
CEDR has certified that: (1) No local
has moved over the Line for at least two
years; (2) overhead traffic (to the extent
there is any) can be rerouted over other
lines; (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 is
pending either with the Surface
Transportation Board (Board) or with
any U.S. District Court or has been
decided in favor of complainant within
the two-year period; and (4) the
requirements at 49 CFR 1105.12
(newspaper publication) and 49 CFR
1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental
agencies) have been met.
Any employee of CEDR adversely
affected by the discontinuance of
service 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) 1 to subsidize
continued rail service has been
received, this exemption will be
1 Persons interested in submitting an OFA to
subsidize continued rail service must first file a
formal expression of intent to file an offer,
indicating the intent to file an OFA for subsidy and
demonstrating that they are preliminarily
financially responsible. See 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2)(i).

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effective on September 20, 2019,2 unless
stayed pending reconsideration.
Petitions to stay that do not involve
environmental issues must be filed by
August 30, 2019, and formal expressions
of intent to file an OFA to subsidize
continued rail service under 49 CFR
1152.27(c)(2) 3 must be filed by
September 3, 2019.4 Petitions for
reconsideration must be filed by
September 10, 2019, with the Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20423–0001.
A copy of any petition filed with
Board should be sent to CEDR’s
representative, Bradon J. Smith, Fletcher
& Sippel LLC, 29 North Wacker Drive,
Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60606.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio.
Board decisions and notices are
available at www.stb.gov.
Decided: August 15, 2019.
By the Board, Allison C. Davis, Director,
Office of Proceedings.
Kenyatta Clay,
Clearance Clerk.
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BILLING CODE 4915–01–P

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Tennessee Valley Authority.
60-Day notice of submission of
information collection approval and
request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The proposed information
collection described below will be
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The Tennessee Valley
Authority is soliciting public comments
on this proposed collection.
DATES: Comments should be sent to the
Senior Privacy Program Manager no
later than October 21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Requests for information,
including copies of the information
collection proposed and supporting
SUMMARY:

2 CEDR states that it intends to consummate the
discontinuance on or after September 1, 2019, but
it may not do so prior to the effective date of this
exemption.
3 The filing fee for OFAs can be found at 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(25).
4 Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and
not an abandonment, trail use/rail banking and
public use conditions are not appropriate. Because
there will be an environmental review during
abandonment, this discontinuance does not require
environmental review.

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documentation, should be directed to
the Senior Privacy Program Manager:
Christopher A. Marsalis, Tennessee
Valley Authority, 400 W Summit Hill
Dr. (WT 5D), Knoxville, Tennessee
37902–1401; telephone (865) 632–2467
(this is not a toll-free number) or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title of Information Collection:
Employment Application.
OMB Approval Number: 3316–0063.
Frequency of Use: On Occasion.
Type of Affected Public: Individuals.
Small Businesses or Organizations
Affected: No.
Federal Budget Functional Category
Code: 999.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 50,102.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 45,913.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Response: .92.
Need For and Use of Information:
Applications for employment are
needed to collect information on
qualifications, suitability for
employment, and eligibility for
veteran’s preference. The information is
used to make comparative appraisals
and to assist in selections. The affected
public consists of individuals who
apply for TVA employment.
Andrea S. Brackett,
Director, TVA Cybersecurity.
[FR Doc. 2019–18038 Filed 8–20–19; 8:45 am]
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Tennessee Valley Authority.
60-Day notice of submission of
information collection approval and
request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

Pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA) will be
requesting from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
reinstatement, without change, of TVA’s
Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery. This generic clearance will
fast-track the process for TVA to seek
feedback from the public, through
surveys and similar feedback
instruments, regarding TVA services
and programs.

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SUMMARY:

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Comments should be sent to the
Senior Privacy Program Manager no
later than October 21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
directed to the Senior Privacy Program
Manager: Christopher A. Marsalis,
Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 W
Summit Hill Dr. (WT 5D), Knoxville,
Tennessee 37902–1401; telephone (865)
632–2467 (this is not a toll-free
number), or by email at camarsalis@
tva.gov.
DATES:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Type of Request: Reinstatement,
without change, of a previously
approved information collection for
which approval has expired.
Title of Information Collection:
Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery.
OMB Approval Number: 3316–0114.
Abstract: Reinstatement of this
information collection will enable TVA
to obtain 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 not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide TVA with
insights into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences, and
expectations; help TVA quickly identify
actual or potential problems with how
the agency provides services to the
public; or focus attention on areas
where communication, training, or
changes in operations might improve
TVA’s delivery of its products or
services. These collections will allow
for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between
TVA and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
TVA will solicit feedback in areas
such as: Timeliness, appropriateness,
accuracy of information, courtesy,
efficiency of service delivery, and
resolution of issues with service
delivery. TVA will use the responses to
plan and inform its efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service and
programs offered to the public. If this
information is not collected, TVA will
not have access to vital feedback from
customers and stakeholders about the
agency’s services and programs.
TVA will only submit an information
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generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or who may have
experience with the program in the near
future;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary, and is not retained;
• Information gathered is intended to
be used only internally for general
service improvement and program
management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the
agency (if released, TVA will indicate
the qualitative nature of the
information);
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information, and the
collections will not be designed or
expected to yield statistically reliable
results or used as though the results are
generalizable to the population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance provides useful information,
but 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 information collections
that are designed to yield reliably
actionable results, such as monitoring
trends over time or documenting
program performance.
As a general matter, information
collections will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
Type of Affected Public: Individuals
and Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Governments.
Small Businesses or Organizations
Affected: Yes.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 10,000.

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