6372 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 27 / Tuesday, February 10, 2004 / Notices 

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.

2Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which currently is set at $1,100. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25).

3HCRRA has requested that the Board make 

certain determinations regarding the imposition of 

public use and trail use conditions here. The 

Board’s Class Exemption process, which HCRRA 

has invoked, does not provide for such 

determinations in issuing a notice of exemption, 

and it is not clear that these determinations are 

necessary in this proceeding. While no one has 

made a proper filing for either a public use or trail 

use condition, should a party wish to proceed 

under the Board’s public use or trail use 

procedures, such party should make the appropriate 

filings within the time frames set forth above, as 

provided in the Board’s rules at 49 CFR 1152.28 

(Public use procedures) and at 49 CFR 1152.29 

(Prospective use of right-of-way for interim trail use 

and rail banking, respectively).

to activate the key warning buzzer and 

the belt warning buzzer. 

Standard No. 208 Occupant Crash 

Protection: Reprogramming of the 

vehicle’s computer to activate the seat 

belt warning system. The petitioner 

states that the vehicles should be 

equipped at the front and rear outboard 

seating positions with combination lap 

and shoulder belts that are selftensioning and that release by means of 

a single red pushbutton. The petitioner 

further states that the vehicles are 

equipped with driver’s and passenger’s 

airbags, and with a seat belt warning 

lamp that is identical to the lamp 

installed on U.S.-certified models. 

The petitioner also states that a 

vehicle identification plate must be 

affixed to the vehicles near the left 

windshield post and a reference and 

certification label must be affixed in the 

area of the left front door post to meet 

the requirements of 49 CFR part 565. 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on the petition 

described above. Comments should refer 

to the docket number and be submitted 

to: Docket Management, Room PL–401, 

400 Seventh St. SW., Washington, DC 

20590. Docket hours are from 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m. It is requested but not required 

that 10 copies be submitted. 

All comments received before the 

close of business on the closing date 

indicated above will be considered, and 

will be available for examination in the 

docket at the above address both before 

and after that date. To the extent 

possible, comments filed after the 

closing date will also be considered. 

Notice of final action on the petition 

will be published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to the authority 

indicated below.

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30141(a)(1)(A) and 

(b)(1); 49 CFR 593.8; delegations of authority 

at 49 CFR 1.50 and 501.8.

Issued on: February 4, 2004. 

Kenneth N. Weinstein, 

Associate Administrator for Enforcement.

[FR Doc. 04–2740 Filed 2–9–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–864X] 

Hennepin County Regional Railroad 

Authority-Abandonment Exemption-in 

McLeod, Carver and Hennepin 

Counties, MN 

Hennepin County Regional Railroad 

Authority (HCRRA) has filed a notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart 

F—Exempt Abandonments to abandon a 

43.9+/-mile line of railroad, between 

milepost 24.6+/-near Wayzata and 

milepost 68.5+/-in Hutchinson, in 

McLeod, Carver and Hennepin 

Counties, MN. In its notice, HCRRA 

indicates that the right to conduct 

freight rail operations on the line is 

pursuant to a freight rail operations 

easement in its favor. HCRRA further 

indicates that the underlying property 

located in McLeod County is owned by 

McLeod County Regional Railroad 

Authority (MCRRA), in Carver County is 

owned by the Carver County Regional 

Railroad Authority (CCRRA), and in 

Hennepin County is owned by HCRRA, 

and that MCRRA, CCRRA and HCRRA 

are all political subdivisions of the State 

of Minnesota. HCRRA has filed this 

notice to terminate its common carrier 

obligation on the line and, upon the 

effective date of the proposed 

abandonment exemption, it has agreed 

to release the freight rail operations 

easement in its favor for that portion of 

the line located in Carver County to 

CCRRA, and for that portion of the line 

located in McLeod County to MCRRA, 

and HCRRA will retain its portion of the 

line located in Hennepin County, all for 

the purposes of preserving the line for 

future rail transportation use and other 

compatible transportation uses. The line 

traverses United States Postal Service 

Zip Codes 55323, 55350, 55354, 55356, 

55360, 55361, 55364, 55367, 55375, 

55381, 55384, 55387, and 55391. 

HCRRA 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 

(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 March 

11, 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 February 

20, 2004. Petitions to reopen or requests 

for public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by March 1, 2004, 

with: Surface Transportation Board, 

1925 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20423–0001.3

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to HCRRA’s 

representative: Marilyn J. Maloney, 

Assistant County Attorney, 2000A 

Government Center, Minneapolis, MN 

55487. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

HCRRA has filed an environmental 

report which addresses the 

abandonment’s effects, if any, on the 

environment and historic resources. 

SEA will issue an environmental 

assessment (EA) by February 13, 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 

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 27 / Tuesday, February 10, 2004 / Notices 6373

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.

2Each offer of financial assistance must be 

accompanied by the filing fee, which currently is 

set at $1,100. See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).

3On February 2, 2004, the Bucks County 

Transportation Management Association (Bucks 

County) filed a letter in opposition to the 

abandonment of the rail line. Bucks County states 

that the line represents the only existing rail line 

between Philadelphia and the Allentown/

Bethlehem area and that abandonment of the line 

would eliminate any possibility of restoring 

commuter rail service through this area. Bucks 

County and any other interested person may file 

petitions for relief within the deadlines established 

in this notice.

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), HCRRA 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 HCRRA’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by February 10, 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 

‘‘www.stb.dot.gov.’’

Decided: February 2, 2004.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–2590 Filed 2–9–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–859 (Sub-No. 1X) and 

STB Docket No. AB–290 (Sub-No. 245X)] 

Pennsylvania Lines LLC—

Abandonment Exemption—in 

Northampton County, PA, and Norfolk 

Southern Railway Company—

Discontinuance of Service 

Exemption—in Northampton County, 

PA 

Pennsylvania Lines LLC (PRR) and 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 

(NSR) (collectively, petitioners) have 

jointly filed a notice of exemption under 

49 CFR Part 1152, Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments and Discontinuances of 

Service for PRR to abandon, and NSR to 

discontinue service over, a 3.7-mile line 

of railroad between milepost EK–53.0 at 

Hellertown and milepost EK–56.7 at 

Bethlehem, in Northampton, PA. The 

line traverses United States Postal 

Service Zip Codes 18015, 18016, 18017, 

18018, 18020, 18025 and 18055. 

PRR and NSR have certified that: (1) 

No local traffic has moved over the line 

for at least 2 years; (2) no overhead 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years and overhead traffic, if 

there were any, could 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 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 

(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 these exemptions, 

any employee adversely affected by the 

abandonment or discontinuance 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, these exemptions will be 

effective on March 11, 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 February 20, 

2004. Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by March 1, 2004, 

with: Surface Transportation Board, 

1925 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20423–0001.3

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to applicants’

representative: James R. Paschall, 

General Attorney, Norfolk Southern 

Corporation, Three Commercial Place, 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company, 

Norfolk, VA 23510. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio.

PRR and NSR have filed an 

environmental report which addresses 

the effects, if any, of the abandonment 

and discontinuance on the environment 

and historic resources. SEA will issue 

an environmental assessment (EA) by 

February 13, 2004. Interested persons 

may obtain a copy of the EA by writing 

to SEA (Room 500, Surface 

Transportation Board, Washington, DC 

20423) 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), PRR 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 

PRR’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by February 10, 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 

www.stb.dot.gov.

Decided: February 4, 2004.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary.

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