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1According to TMBL, an agreement has been 

reached between BNSF, as seller and lessor of the 

real estate and grantor of incidental trackage rights, 

and TMBL, as buyer and lessee of the real estate 

and grantee of incidental trackage rights.

2 Inasmuch as TMBL did not certify to the Board 

compliance with 49 CFR 1150.42(e) 60 days prior 

to its intended consummation of the transaction, it 

sought waiver of the 60-day certification 

requirement. The Board denied that request in a 

decision served on September 27, 2004. As a 

consequence, this exemption is not scheduled to 

become effective until November 16, 2004, and the 

inspection and copying on the Internet 

at the docket facility’s Web site at http:/

/dms.dot.gov.

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–19478). 

The Statement may also be found at 

http://dms.dot.gov.

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 12, 

2004. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety.

[FR Doc. 04–23386 Filed 10–18–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

In accordance with Part 211 of Title 

49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 

notice is hereby given that the Federal 

Railroad Administration (FRA) received 

a request for a waiver of compliance 

with certain requirements of its safety 

standards. The individual petition is 

described below, including the party 

seeking relief, the regulatory provisions 

involved, the nature of the relief being 

requested, and the petitioner’s 

arguments in favor of relief. 

Canadian National Railway Company 

(Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA–2004–

18960) 

The Canadian National Railway 

Company (CN) seeks a waiver of 

compliance with the Locomotive Safety 

Standards, 49 CFR 229.23, 229.27, and 

229.29, as they pertain to the 

requirement to maintain the locomotive 

repair record form FRA 6180.49A, 

commonly referred to as the Blue Card, 

in the cab of their locomotives. If 

granted, CN would maintain locomotive 

inspection information in a secure data 

base. The data base would be 

maintained as the required office copy 

of form FRA 6180.49A. A computer 

generated form, which is similar to and 

contains all information currently 

contained on the required FRA 

6180.49A, would be maintained on 

board the locomotive. In place of 

required signatures of persons 

performing inspections and tests, CN 

employees would be provided a unique 

login identification number and a secure 

password to access the system and 

verify performance of inspections. In 

place of signatures, computer generated 

reports would block print the name of 

the employee performing a required 

inspection and block print the 

employees supervisor who is certifying 

that all inspections have been made and 

all repairs were completed. Required 

filing of the previous inspection record 

will be maintained through the data 

base. 

Interested parties are invited to 

participate in these proceedings by 

submitting written views, data, or 

comments. FRA does not anticipate 

scheduling a public hearing in 

connection with these proceedings since 

the facts do not appear to warrant a 

hearing. If any interested party desires 

an opportunity for oral comment, they 

should notify FRA, in writing, before 

the end of the comment period and 

specify the basis for their request. 

All communications concerning these 

proceedings should identify the 

appropriate docket number (FRA–2004–

18960) and must be submitted to the 

Docket Clerk, DOT Docket Management 

Facility, Room PL–401 (Plaza Level), 

400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590. Communications received within 

45 days of the date of this notice will 

be considered by FRA before final 

action is taken. Comments received after 

that date will be considered as far as 

practicable. All written communications 

concerning these proceedings are 

available for examination during regular 

business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.) at the 

above facility. All documents in the 

public docket are also available for 

inspection and copying on the Internet 

at the docket facility’s Web site at http:/

/dms.dot.gov.

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–19478). 

The Statement may also be found at 

http://dms.dot.gov.

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 12, 

2004. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety.

[FR Doc. 04–23388 Filed 10–18–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Finance Docket No. 34555) 

City of Tacoma, Department of Public 

Utilities, Beltline Division, d/b/a 

Tacoma Rail or Tacoma Municipal 

Beltline or TMBL—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—Lakeview 

Subdivision, Quadlok-St. Clair and 

Belmore-Olympia Rail Lines in Pierce 

and Thurston Counties, WA 

The City of Tacoma, Department of 

Public Utilities, Beltline Division, d/b/a 

Tacoma Rail or Tacoma Municipal 

Beltline or TMBL (TMBL), a Class III rail 

carrier, has filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1150.41 to 

acquire and operate approximately 28 

miles of rail line, and to obtain 

approximately 22 miles of incidental 

trackage rights, in Pierce and Thurston 

Counties, WA. Specifically, TMBL 

intends: (1) To acquire a freight service 

easement from The Burlington Northern 

and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) 

from milepost 2.15 at South Tacoma to 

milepost 8.92 at Lakeview Junction, and 

from milepost 0.0 at West Lakeview to 

milepost 10.98 at Nisqually, a total 

distance of 17.75 miles in Pierce 

County; (2) to lease BNSF’s right-of-way 

from milepost 3.27 at Quadlok to 

milepost 0.0 at St. Clair, and from 

milepost 16.0 at Belmore to milepost 

9.07 at Olympia, a total distance of 10.2 

miles in Thurston County; and (3) to 

obtain incidental trackage rights from 

BNSF from milepost 23.0 at Nisqually to 

milepost 37.00 at East Olympia, and to 

be assigned incidental trackage rights 

from BNSF over Union Pacific Railroad 

Company’s rail line from milepost 0.0 at 

East Olympia to milepost 9.07 at 

Olympia. 1

Because TMBL’s projected annual 

revenues will exceed $5 million, it 

certified to the Board on September 17, 

2004, that it sent the required notice of 

the transaction on July 29, 2004, to the 

national offices of all labor unions 

representing employees on the line and 

that a copy of the notice was posted at 

the workplace of the employees on the 

affected lines on July 30, 2004. 2

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parties cannot consummate this transaction until 

that date.

The transaction is scheduled to be 

consummated on or after November 16, 

2004. 

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 transaction. 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to STB Finance 

Docket No. 34555, must be filed with 

the Surface Transportation Board, 1925 

K Street NW., Washington, DC 20423–

0001. In addition, a copy of each 

pleading must be served on: Jeffrey O. 

Moreno, 1920 N Street, NW., Suite 800, 

Washington, DC 20036, and Anne L. 

Spangler, 3628 South 35th Street, 

Tacoma, WA 98409–3115. 

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. 04–23138 Filed 10–18–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

October 12, 2004. 

The Department of the Treasury has 

submitted the following public 

information collection requirement(s) to 

OMB for review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Copies of the 

submission(s) may be obtained by 

calling the Treasury Bureau Clearance 

Officer listed. Comments regarding this 

information collection should be 

addressed to the OMB reviewer listed 

and to the Treasury Department 

Clearance Officer, Department of the 

Treasury, Room 11000, 1750 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20220.

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before November 18, 

2004 to be assured of consideration. 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

OMB Number: 1545–1010. 

Form Number: IRS Form 1120–RIC. 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: U.S. Income Tax Return for 

Regulated Investment Companies. 

Description: Form 1120–RIC is filed 

by a domestic corporation electing to be 

taxed as a RIC in order to report its 

income and deductions and to compute 

its tax liability. IRS uses form 1120–RIC 

to determine whether the RIC has 

correctly reported its income, 

deductions, and tax liability. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents/

Recordkeepers: 3,277. 

Estimated Burden Hours Respondent/

Recordkeeper:

Recordkeeping—57 hr., 9 min. 

Learning about the law or the form—20 

hr., 43 min. 

Preparing the form—36 hr., 30 min. 

Copying, assembling, and sending the 

form to the IRS—4 hr., 1 min.

Frequency of response: Annually. 

Estimated Total Reporting/

Recordkeeping Burden: 380,325 hours.

Clearance Officer: Paul H. Finger (202) 

622–4078, Internal Revenue Service, 

Room 6516, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20224. 

OMB Reviewer: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr. 

(202) 395–7316, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 

10235, New Executive Office 

Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Lois K. Holland, 

Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 04–23358 Filed 10–18–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Departmental Offices; Debt 

Management Advisory Committee 

Meeting 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. App. 2, 10(a)(2), that a meeting 

will be held at the Hay-Adams Hotel, 

16th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC, on November 2, 2004 

at 11 a.m. of the following debt 

management advisory committee: 

Treasury Borrowing Advisory 

Committee of The Bond Market 

Association (‘‘Committee’’). 

The agenda for the meeting provides 

for a charge by the Secretary of the 

Treasury or his designate that the 

Committee discuss particular issues, 

and a working session. Following the 

working session, the Committee will 

present a written report of its 

recommendations. The meeting will be 

closed to the public, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(d) and Public 

Law 103–202, 202(c)(1)(B) (31 U.S.C. 

3121 note). 

This notice shall constitute my 

determination, pursuant to the authority 

placed in heads of agencies by 5 U.S.C. 

App. 2, section 10(d) and vested in me 

by Treasury Department Order No. 101–

05, that the meeting will consist of 

discussions and debates of the issues 

presented to the Committee by the 

Secretary of the Treasury and the 

making of recommendations of the 

Committee to the Secretary, pursuant to 

Public Law 103–202, section 

202(c)(1)(B). Thus, this information is 

exempt from disclosure under that 

provision and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(3)(B). In 

addition, the meeting is concerned with 

information that is exempt from 

disclosure under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(A). 

The public interest requires that such 

meetings be closed to the public because 

the Treasury Department requires frank 

and full advice from representatives of 

the financial community prior to 

making its final decisions on major 

financing operations. Historically, this 

advice has been offered by debt 

management advisory committees 

established by the several major 

segments of the financial community. 

When so utilized, such a committee is 

recognized to be an advisory committee 

under 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 3. 

Although the Treasury’s final 

announcement of financing plans may 

not reflect the recommendations 

provided in reports of the Committee, 

premature disclosure of the Committee’s 

deliberations and reports would be 

likely to lead to significant financial 

speculation in the securities market. 

Thus, this meeting falls within the 

exemption covered by 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(9)(A). 

Treasury staff will provide a technical 

briefing to the press on the day before 

the Committee meeting, following the 

release of a statement of economic 

conditions, financing estimates and 

technical charts. This briefing will give 

the press an opportunity to ask 

questions about financing projections 

and technical charts. The day after the 

Committee meeting, Treasury will 

release the minutes of the meeting, any 

charts that were discussed at the 

meeting, and the Committee’s report to 

the Secretary. 

The Office of Debt Management is 

responsible for maintaining records of 

debt management advisory committee 

meetings and for providing annual 

reports setting forth a summary of 

Committee activities and such other 

matters as may be informative to the 

public consistent with the policy of 5 

U.S.C. 552b. The Designated Federal 

Officer or other responsible agency 

official who may be contacted for 

additional information is Jeff Huther, 

Director, Office of Debt Management, at 

(202) 622–1868.