13272 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 47 / Thursday, March 10, 2011 / Notices 

1See Tenn. S. R.R.—Continuance in Control 

Exemption—Columbia & Cowlitz Ry., Docket No. 

FD 35425 (served Nov. 12, 2010). Patriot Rail, LLC, 

Patriot Rail Holdings LLC, and Patriot Rail Corp. 

indirectly control CLC and Woods through TSRR. 

must be served on applicants’ 

representative, Louis E. Gitomer, 600 

Baltimore Ave., Suite 301, Towson, MD 

21204. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

WWW.STB.DOT.GOV. 

Decided: March 4, 2011. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5357 Filed 3–9–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35473] 

Columbia & Cowlitz Railway, LLC— 

Corporate Family Transaction 

Exemption—Patriot Woods Railroad, 

LLC 

Columbia & Cowlitz Railway, LLC 

(CLC) and Patriot Woods Railroad, LLC 

(Woods), have filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3) 

for a transaction within a corporate 

family. CLC seeks to lease and operate 

all of Woods’ lines of railroad consisting 

of approximately 22 miles of spur rail 

line between the connection with CLC 

at milepost 8.5 (Ostrander Junction) and 

milepost 30.5 (Green Mountain), 

including auxiliary and temporary 

storage tracks, in Cowlitz County, Wash. 

CLC and Woods are Class III rail carriers 

and are wholly owned subsidiaries of 

Tennessee Southern Railroad Company 

(TSRR).1 The transaction is intended to 

result in more efficient and lower cost 

operations. 

The exemption will be effective on 

March 24, 2011. 

This is a transaction within a 

corporate family of the type exempted 

from prior review and approval under 

49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3). The parties state 

that the transaction will not result in 

adverse changes in service levels, 

significant operational changes, or 

changes in the competitive balance with 

carriers outside the corporate family. 

Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board 

may not use its exemption authority to 

relieve a rail carrier of its statutory 

obligation to protect the interests of its 

employees. Section 11326(c), however, 

does not provide for labor protection for 

transactions under §§ 11324 and 11325 

that involve only Class III rail carriers. 

Accordingly, the Board may not impose 

labor protective conditions here, 

because all of the carriers involved are 

Class III rail carriers. 

If the 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 transaction. 

Petitions for stay will be due no later 

than March 17, 2011 (at least 7 days 

before the effective date of the 

exemption). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35473 must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, one copy of each pleading 

must be served on applicants’ 

representative, Louis E. Gitomer, 600 

Baltimore Ave., Suite 301, Towson, MD 

21204. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: March 4, 2011. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5326 Filed 3–8–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Branch Offices 

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on its proposal to 

extend this information collection. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before May 9, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518; or send 

an e-mail to 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov. 

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at 

http://www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., by appointment. To 

make an appointment, call (202) 906– 

5922, send an e-mail to 

public.info@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906– 

7755. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information 

about this proposed information 

collection from Donald W. Dwyer on 

(202) 906–6414, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Branch Offices. 

OMB Number: 1550–0006. 

Form Numbers: 1450 and 1558. 

Description: OTS may not conduct or 

sponsor an information collection, and 

respondents are not required to respond 

to an information collection, unless the 

information collection displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. As 


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