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1SRC states that, although the proposed 

transaction is wholly within a corporate family and 

would satisfy the criteria for an exemption under 

section 1180.2(d)(3), it submitted verified notices 

for acquisition authority and continuance in control 

authority given the decision in Oregon International 

Port of Coos Bay—Intra-Corporate Family 

Transaction Exemption, FD 36199 (STB served Oct. 

26, 2018). This notice does not address the 

appropriateness of section 1180.2(d)(3) in this 

situation, as the notice satisfies the criteria for 

section 1180.2(d)(2). 

selected the following sanctions to be 

imposed upon Arya Sasol Polymer 

Company, Binrin Limited, Bakhtar 

Commercial Company, Kavian 

Petrochemical Company, and Strait 

Shipbrokers PTE. LTD: 

• Prohibit any transactions in foreign 

exchange that are subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States and in 

which the entities have any interest; 

• Prohibit any transfers of credit or 

payments between financial institutions 

or by, through, or to any financial 

institution, to the extent that such 

transfers or payments are subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States and 

involve any interest of the entities; 

• Block all property and interests in 

property that are in the United States, 

that hereafter come within the United 

States, or that are or hereafter come 

within the possession or control of any 

United States person of the entities, and 

provide that such property and interests 

in property may not be transferred, paid, 

exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt 

in; 

• Prohibit any United States person 

from investing in or purchasing 

significant amounts of equity or debt 

instruments of the entities; 

• Restrict or prohibit imports of 

goods, technology, or services, directly 

or indirectly, into the United States 

from the entities; and 

• Impose on the principal executive 

officer or officers, or persons performing 

similar functions and with similar 

authorities, of the entities the sanctions 

described in sections 5(a)(i)–5(a)(iv) and 

5(a)(vi) of E.O. 13846, as selected by the 

Secretary of State. 

Pursuant to Sections 4(e) and 5(a) of 

E.O. 13846, the Secretary of State has 

selected the following sanctions to be 

imposed upon Amir Hossein Bahreini, 

Lin Na Wei, Murtuza Mustafamunir 

Basrai, Hosein Firouzi Arani, and 

Ramezan Oladi, each of whom has been 

determined to be (i) a corporate officer 

or principal of the aforementioned 

entities and (ii) a principal executive 

officer of the aforementioned entities, or 

perform similar functions with similar 

authorities as a principal executive 

officer: 

• Prohibit any transactions in foreign 

exchange that are subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States and in 

which Amir Hossein Bahreini, Lin Na 

Wei, Murtuza Mustafamunir Basrai, 

Hosein Firouzi Arani, and Ramezan 

Oladi have any interest; 

• Prohibit any transfers of credit or 

payments between financial institutions 

or by, through, or to any financial 

institution, to the extent that such 

transfers or payments are subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States and 

involve any interest of Amir Hossein 

Bahreini, Lin Na Wei, Murtuza 

Mustafamunir Basrai, Hosein Firouzi 

Arani, and Ramezan Oladi; 

• Block all property and interests in 

property that are in the United States, 

that hereafter come within the United 

States, or that are or hereafter come 

within the possession or control of any 

United States person of Amir Hossein 

Bahreini, Lin Na Wei, Murtuza 

Mustafamunir BasraiHosein Firouzi 

Arani, and Ramezan Oladi; and provide 

that such property and interests in 

property may not be transferred, paid, 

exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt 

in; and 

• Restrict or prohibit imports of 

goods, technology, or services, directly 

or indirectly, into the United States 

from Amir Hossein Bahreini, Lin Na 

Wei, Murtuza Mustafamunir Basrai, 

Hosein Firouzi Arani, and Ramezan 

Oladi. 

Additionally, pursuant to Section 4(e) 

of E.O. 13846, the Secretary of State 

shall deny a visa to, and the Secretary 

of Homeland Security shall exclude 

from the United States, any alien that 

the Secretary of State determines is a 

corporate officer or principal of, or a 

shareholder with a controlling interest 

in, a sanctioned person subject to this 

action. 

Peter D. Haas, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 

of Economic and Business Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2020–29200 Filed 1–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–AE–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36454] 

Strasburg Rail Road Company— 

Continuance in Control Exemption— 

SRC Railway LLC 

Strasburg Rail Road Company (SRC), 

a Class III rail carrier, has filed a verified 

notice of exemption pursuant to 49 CFR 

1180.2(d)(2) to continue in control of 

SRC Railway LLC (Railway LLC), upon 

Railway LLC becoming a Class III rail 

carrier.1 Railway LLC is a newly formed 

noncarrier entity that is controlled by 

SRC. 

This transaction is related to a 

concurrently filed verified notice of 

exemption in SRC Railway LLC—Lease 

& Operation Exemption—Strasburg Rail 

Road Co., Docket No. FD 36453. In that 

proceeding, Railway LLC seeks an 

exemption to lease and operate 

approximately 4.25 miles of rail line 

known as the Strasburg Line in 

Lancaster County, Pa. (the Line). 

The verified notice states that because 

the Line is solely owned by SRC, lease 

of the Line to Railway LLC does not 

constitute a connection within the 

corporate family. SRC further states that 

the transaction does not involve a Class 

I rail carrier. The proposed transaction 

is therefore exempt from the prior 

approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 

11323. See 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2). 

The earliest this transaction may be 

consummated is January 20, 2021, the 

effective date of the exemption (30 days 

after the verified notice was filed). 

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 sections 11324 and 

11325 that involve only Class III rail 

carriers. Accordingly, the Board may not 

impose labor protective conditions here 

because only Class III carriers are 

involved. 

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 effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions for stay must 

be filed no later than January 12, 2021. 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

FD 36454 should be filed with the 

Surface Transportation Board via efiling on the Board’s website. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on SRC’s representative, 

Bradon J. Smith, Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 

29 North Wacker Drive, Suite 800, 

Chicago, IL 60606–3208. 

According to SRC, this action is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c) and from historic preservation 

reporting requirements under 49 CFR 

1105.8(b). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: December 31, 2020. 


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By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2020–29257 Filed 1–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36453] 

SRC Railway LLC—Lease and 

Operation Exemption—Strasburg Rail 

Road Company 

SRC Railway LLC (Railway LLC), a 

noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of 

exemption pursuant to 49 CFR 1150.31 

to lease from Strasburg Rail Road 

Company (SRC) and operate 

approximately 4.25 miles of rail line 

known as the Strasburg Line in 

Lancaster County, Pa. (the Line). The 

Line extends from approximately 

quarter-milepost 20 at Leaman Place 

(immediately north of the underpass at 

U.S. Highway 30 and west of the 

interchange connection with Norfolk 

Southern Railway Company and the 

National Railroad Passenger Corporation 

(NRPC milepost 56.8)), southwesterly to 

quarter-milepost 3 at East Strasburg. 

This transaction is related to a 

concurrently filed verified notice of 

exemption in Strasburg Rail Road 

Company—Continuance in Control 

Exemption—SRC Railway LLC, Docket 

No. FD 36454, in which SRC seeks to 

continue in control of Railway LLC 

upon Railway LLC’s becoming a Class 

III rail carrier. 

Railway LLC states that it will shortly 

execute agreements with SRC pursuant 

to which it will lease the Line from SRC. 

According to Railway LLC, the proposed 

agreements do not contain any 

provision that would limit future 

interchange on the Line with a thirdparty connecting carrier. 

Further, Railway LLC certifies that its 

projected annual revenue will not 

exceed $5 million and will not result in 

Railway LLC becoming a Class I or II rail 

carrier. 

The earliest this transaction may be 

consummated is January 20, 2021, the 

effective date of the exemption (30 days 

after the verified notice was filed). 

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 effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions for stay must 

be filed no later than January 12, 2021. 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

FD 36453, should be filed with the 

Surface Transportation Board via efiling on the Board’s website. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on Railway LLC’s 

representative, Bradon J. Smith, Fletcher 

& Sippel LLC, 29 North Wacker Drive, 

Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60606–3208. 

According to Railway LLC, this action 

is categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c) and from historic preservation 

reporting requirements under 49 CFR 

1105.8(b). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: December 31, 2020. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2020–29256 Filed 1–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket Number USTR–2020–0042] 

Notice of Revision of Section 301 

Action: Enforcement of U.S. WTO 

Rights in Large Civil Aircraft Dispute 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative (USTR). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Trade 

Representative has determined to revise 

the action being taken in this Section 

301 investigation to mirror the approach 

taken by the European Union (EU) in 

exercising its World Trade Organization 

(WTO) authorization in the Boeing 

dispute. In implementing this approach, 

the U.S. Trade Representative has 

determined to revise the action by 

adding certain products of certain EU 

member States to the list of products 

subject to additional duties. 

DATES: The revisions in Annex I are 

applicable with respect to products that 

are entered for consumption, or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. 

eastern standard time on January 12, 

2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about the investigation and 

revisions announced in this notice, 

contact Associate General Counsel 

Megan Grimball, at (202) 395–5725, or 

Director for Europe Michael Rogers, at 

(202) 395–3320. For questions on 

customs procedures or the classification 

of products identified in the annexes, 

contact Traderemedy@cbp.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

A. Proceedings in the Investigation 

On April 12, 2019, the U.S. Trade 

Representative announced the initiation 

of an investigation to enforce U.S. rights 

in the WTO dispute against the EU and 

certain EU member States addressed to 

subsidies on large civil aircraft. See 84 

FR 15028 (April 12 notice). The April 12 

notice contains background information 

on the investigation and the dispute 

settlement proceedings. 

The April 12 notice solicited 

comments on a proposed determination 

that, inter alia, the EU and certain 

member States have denied U.S. rights 

under the WTO Agreement, and in 

particular, under Articles 5 and 6.3 of 

the Agreement on Subsidies and 

Countervailing Measures and the 

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 

1994, and have failed to comply with 

the WTO Dispute Settlement Body 

(DSB) recommendations to bring the 

WTO-inconsistent subsidies into 

compliance with WTO obligations. The 

April 12 notice invited public 

comments on a proposed action in the 

form of an additional ad valorem duty 

of up to 100 percent on products of EU 

member States to be drawn from a list 

of 317 tariff subheadings and 9 

statistical reporting numbers of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) included in the 

annex to that notice. 

On July 5, 2019, USTR published a 

notice inviting public comments on a 

second list of products also being 

considered for an additional ad valorem 

duty of up to 100 percent. See 84 FR 

32248. 

On October 2, 2019, the WTO 

Arbitrator issued a report concluding 

that the appropriate level of 

countermeasures in response to the 

WTO-inconsistent launch aid provided 

by the EU or certain member States to 

their large civil aircraft domestic 

industry is approximately $7.5 billion 

annually. 

On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Trade 

Representative published a 

determination that the EU and certain 

member States have denied U.S. rights 

under the WTO Agreement and have 

failed to implement DSB 

recommendations concerning certain 

subsidies to the EU large civil aircraft 

industry. The U.S. Trade Representative 

determined to take action in the form of 

additional duties on products of certain 

current or former member States of the 

EU, at levels of 10 or 25 percent ad 

valorem, effective October 18, 2019. See 

84 FR 54245 (October 9, 2019) and 84 

FR 55998 (October 18, 2019). 

On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Trade 

Representative announced a review of 


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