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12 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

1Persons interested in submitting an OFA must 

first file a formal expression of intent to file an 

offer, indicating the type of financial assistance they 

wish to provide (i.e., subsidy or purchase) and 

demonstrating that they are preliminarily 

financially responsible. See 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2)(i). 

2The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental 

Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation) 

cannot be made before the exemptions’ effective 

date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. 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 exemptions’ 

effective date. 

3Filing fees for OFAs and trail use requests can 

be found at 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25) and (27), 

respectively. 

Comments may be submitted by any of 

the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an email to rule-comments@

sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– 

LTSE–2020–22 on the subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Secretary, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–LTSE–2020–22. This file 

number should be included on the 

subject line if email is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

internet website (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for website viewing and 

printing in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549, on official 

business days between the hours of 

10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the 

filing also will be available for 

inspection and copying at the principal 

office of the Exchange. All comments 

received will be posted without change. 

Persons submitting comments are 

cautioned that we do not redact or edit 

personal identifying information from 

comment submissions. You should 

submit only information that you wish 

to make available publicly. All 

submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–LTSE–2020–22, and should 

be submitted on or before January 19, 

2021. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.12

J. Matthew DeLesDernier, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28515 Filed 12–23–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Interest Rates 

The Small Business Administration 

publishes an interest rate called the 

optional ‘‘peg’’ rate (13 CFR 120.214) on 

a quarterly basis. This rate is a weighted 

average cost of money to the 

government for maturities similar to the 

average SBA direct loan. This rate may 

be used as a base rate for guaranteed 

fluctuating interest rate SBA loans. This 

rate will be 1.13 percent for the 

January–March quarter of FY 2021. 

Pursuant to 13 CFR 120.921(b), the 

maximum legal interest rate for any 

third party lender’s commercial loan 

which funds any portion of the cost of 

a 504 project (see 13 CFR 120.801) shall 

be 6% over the New York Prime rate or, 

in the event that rate exceeds the 

maximum interest rate permitted by the 

constitution or laws of a given State, the 

maximum interest rate will be the rate 

permitted by the constitution or laws of 

the given State. 

John Wade, 

Chief, Secondary Market Division, Office of 

Financial Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28533 Filed 12–23–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 1302X] 

City of Temple, Tex.—Abandonment 

Exemption—in Bell County, Tex. 

[Docket No. AB 1309X] 

Temple & Central Texas Railway, 

LLC—Discontinuance of Service 

Exemption—in Bell County, Tex. 

The City of Temple, Tex. (the City), 

and Temple & Central Texas Railway, 

LLC (TCTR) (collectively, Applicants), 

jointly filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR part 1152 

subpart F—Exempt Abandonments and 

Discontinuances of Service for the City 

to abandon and TCTR to discontinue 

service over approximately 6.277 miles 

of rail line between Belton, Tex., 

milepost 0.0, and Smith, Tex., milepost 

6.277, in Bell County, Tex. (the Line). 

The Line traverses U.S. Postal Service 

Zip Codes 76513 and 76502. 

Applicants have certified that: (1) No 

local traffic has moved over the Line for 

at least two 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 two-year period; and (4) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7 and 

1105.8 (notice of environmental and 

historic report), 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 and 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) has been received,1 the 

exemptions will be effective on January 

27, 2021, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do 

not involve environmental issues,2

formal expressions of intent to file an 

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

interim trail use/rail banking requests 

under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be filed by 

January 7, 2021.3 Petitions to reopen or 

requests for public use conditions under 

49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by January 

19, 2021. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to the City’s 

representative, Peter W. Denton, Steptoe 

& Johnson LLP, 1330 Connecticut 

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036, 

and to TCTR’s representative, Bradley S. 

Gordon, Patriot Rail Company LLC, 

Patriot Port Holdings LLC, 10752 

Deerwood Park Boulevard, Suite 300, 

Jacksonville, FL 32256. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemptions 

are void ab initio. 

Applicants have filed a combined 

environmental and historic report that 


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