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1The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Section of 

Environmental Analysis (SEA) in its independent 

investigation) cannot be made before the 

exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-Service 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.

2Effective October 31, 2004, the filing fee for an 

OFA will increase to $1,200. See Regulations 

Governing Fees for Services Performed in 

Connection with Licensing and Related Services—

2004 Update, STB Ex Parte No. 542 (Sub-No. 11) 

(STB served Oct. 1, 2004).

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–812X] 

Stockton Terminal and Eastern 

Railroad—Abandonment Exemption—

in San Joaquin County, CA 

Stockton Terminal and Eastern 

Railroad (STE) has filed a notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart 

F—Exempt Abandonments to abandon 

approximately 3,600 feet of rail line 

extending from the west edge of North 

Duncan Road to the end of the line near 

North Wall Road, in Linden, San 

Joaquin County, CA. The line traverses 

United States Postal Service Zip Code 

95236. 

STE has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic 

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 either is pending with the 

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 (environmental reports), 49 CFR 

1105.8 (historic reports), 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 R. Co.—

Abandonment—Goshen, 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 be 

effective on November 17, 2004, unless 

stayed pending reconsideration. 

Petitions to stay that do not involve 

environmental issues,1 formal 

expressions of intent to file an OFA 

under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),2 and trail 

use/rail banking requests under 49 CFR 

1152.29 must be filed by October 28, 

2004. Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by November 8, 

2004, with the Surface Transportation 

Board, 1925 K Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20423–0001.

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to STE’s 

representative: Thomas F. McFarland, 

208 South LaSalle St., Suite 1890, 

Chicago, IL 60604–1112. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio.

STE has filed an environmental report 

which addresses the effects, if any, of 

the abandonment on the environment 

and historic resources. SEA will issue 

an environmental assessment (EA) by 

October 22, 2004. Interested persons 

may obtain a copy of the EA by writing 

to SEA (Room 500, Surface 

Transportation Board, Washington, DC 

20423–0001) or by calling SEA, at (202) 

565–1539. [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), STE 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 

STE’s filing of a notice of consummation 

by October 18, 2005, 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: October 8, 2004. 

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–23137 Filed 10–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Call for Redemption: 113⁄4

Percent Treasury Bonds of 2005–10; 

Washington, DC 

October 15, 2004. 

1. Public notice is hereby given that 

all outstanding 113⁄4 percent Treasury 

Bonds of 2005–10 (CUSIP No. 912810 

CM 8) dated February 15, 1980, due 

February 15, 2010, are hereby called for 

redemption at par on February 15, 2005, 

on which date interest on such bonds 

will cease. 

2. Full information regarding the 

presentation and surrender of such 

bonds held in coupon and registered 

form for redemption under this call will 

be found in Department of the Treasury 

Circular No. 300 dated March 4, 1973, 

as amended (31 CFR part 306), and from 

the Definitives Section of the Bureau of 

the Public Debt (telephone (304) 480–

7936), and on the Bureau of the Public 

Debt’s Web site, http//

www.publicdebt.treas.gov.

3. Redemption payments for such 

bonds held in book-entry form, whether 

on the books of the Federal Reserve 

Banks or in Treasury-Direct accounts, 

will be made automatically on February 

15, 2005.

Donald V. Hammond, 

Fiscal Assistant Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–22978 Filed 10–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–40–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for the Statistics of Income 

(SOI) Corporate Survey

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

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 take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

Statistics of Income (SOI) Corporate 

Survey.