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1On November 16, 2010, DSR supplemented its 

notice of exemption. 

PHMSA invites comments on an 

information collection under Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) Control 

No. 2137–0578, titled ‘‘Reporting SafetyRelated Conditions on Gas, Hazardous 

Liquid, and Carbon Dioxide Pipelines 

and Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities.’’ 

PHMSA is preparing to request approval 

from OMB for a renewal of the current 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before January 

28, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted in the following ways: 

E-Gov Web Site: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. This site allows 

the public to enter comments on any 

Federal Register notice issued by any 

agency. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. DOT, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, 

SE., West Building, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on the 

ground level of the West Building, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: Identify the docket 

number, PHMSA–2010–0354, at the 

beginning of your comments. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. You 

should know that 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.). 

Therefore, you may want to review 

DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477) or visit 

http://www.regulations.gov before 

submitting any such comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket or to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov at any time or to 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

the West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. If you 

wish to receive confirmation of receipt 

of your written comments, please 

include a self-addressed, stamped 

postcard with the following statement: 

‘‘Comments on PHMSA–2010–0354.’’ 

The Docket Clerk will date stamp the 

postcard prior to returning it to you via 

the U.S. mail. Please note that due to 

delays in the delivery of U.S. mail to 

Federal offices in Washington, DC, we 

recommend that persons consider an 

alternative method (Internet, fax, or 

professional delivery service) of 

submitting comments to the docket and 

ensuring their timely receipt at DOT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cameron Satterthwaite by telephone at 

202–366–1319, by fax at 202–366–4566, 

or by mail at U.S. DOT, PHMSA, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., PHP–30, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

1320.8(d), Title 5, Code of Federal 

Regulations requires PHMSA to provide 

interested members of the public and 

affected agencies an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping requests. This notice 

identifies an information collection 

request that PHMSA will be submitting 

to OMB for renewal and extension. The 

information collection expires February 

28, 2011, and is identified under 

Control No. 2137–0578, titled: 

‘‘Reporting Safety-Related Conditions on 

Gas, Hazardous Liquid, and Carbon 

Dioxide Pipelines and Liquefied Natural 

Gas Facilities.’’ The Pipeline Safety 

Laws (49 U.S.C. 60132) require each 

operator of a pipeline facility (except 

master meter operators) to submit to 

DOT a written report on any safetyrelated condition that causes or has 

caused a significant change or 

restriction in the operation of a pipeline 

facility or a condition that is a hazard 

to life, property or the environment. The 

following information is provided for 

this information collection: (1) Title of 

the information collection; (2) OMB 

control number; (3) Type of request; (4) 

Abstract of the information collection 

activity; (5) Description of affected 

public; (6) Estimate of total annual 

reporting and recordkeeping burden; 

and (7) Frequency of collection. PHMSA 

will request a three-year term of 

approval for this information collection 

activity. 

PHMSA requests comments on the 

following information collection: 

Title: Reporting Safety-Related 

Conditions on Gas, Hazardous Liquid, 

and Carbon Dioxide Pipelines and 

Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0578. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: Each operator of a pipeline 

facility (except master meter operators) 

must submit to DOT a written report on 

any safety-related condition that causes 

or has caused a significant change or 

restriction in the operation of a pipeline 

facility or a condition that is a hazard 

to life, property or the environment. 

Affected Public: Operators of pipeline 

facilities (except master meter 

operators). 

Estimated number of responses: 142. 

Estimated annual burden hours: 852 

hours. 

Frequency of collection: On occasion. 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) The need for the proposed 

collection of information for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques. 

Issued in Washington, DC on November 23, 

2010. 

Linda Daugherty, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy 

and Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29960 Filed 11–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. AB 384 (Sub–No. 2X)] 

Delta Southern Railroad, Inc.— 

Abandonment Exemption—In East 

Carroll Parish, LA 

Delta Southern Railroad, Inc. (DSR) 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR pt. 1152 subpart F– 

Exempt Abandonments to abandon 8 

miles of rail line extending from 

milepost 463.0, near Shelburn, to 

milepost 471.0, which is approximately 

a mile south of Lake Providence, in East 

Carroll Parish, La.1 The line traverses 

United States Postal Service Zip Code 

71254. 

DSR 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 to be rerouted; (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 

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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 exemption’s 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 exemption’s 

effective date. 

3Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which is currently set at $1,500. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

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(c) 

(environmental report), 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—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, this 

exemption will be effective on 

December 29, 2010, 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),3 and trail use/rail banking 

requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be 

filed by December 9, 2010. Petitions to 

reopen or requests for public use 

conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must 

be filed by December 20, 2010, with the 

Surface Transportation Board, 395 E 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423– 

0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to DSR’s 

representative: Thomas F. McFarland, 

P.C., 208 South LaSalle Street, Suite 

1890, Chicago, IL 60604–1112. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

DSR has filed a combined 

environmental and historic report 

which addresses the effects, if any, of 

the abandonment on the environment 

and historic resources. OEA will issue 

an environmental assessment (EA) by 

December 3, 2010. Interested persons 

may obtain a copy of the EA by writing 

to OEA (Room 1100, Surface 

Transportation Board, Washington, DC 

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

245–0305. 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), DSR 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 

DSR’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by November 29, 2011, 

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: November 22, 2010. 

By the Board. 

Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Andrea Pope-Matheson, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29834 Filed 11–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

November 19, 2010. 

The Department of the Treasury will 

submit the following public information 

collection requirements to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 on or after the date 

of publication of this notice. A copy of 

the submissions may be obtained by 

calling the Treasury Bureau Clearance 

Officer listed. Comments regarding 

these information collections should be 

addressed to the OMB reviewer listed 

and to the Treasury PRA Clearance 

Officer, Department of the Treasury, 

1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Suite 

11010, Washington, DC 20220. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before December 29, 2010 

to be assured of consideration. 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

OMB Number: 1545–1614. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change to a currently approved 

collection. 

Title: REG–106177–97 (NPRM) 

Qualified State Tuition Programs. 

Abstract: Respondents are States and 

eligible educational institutions that 

establish and maintain qualified State 

tuition programs. Respondents include 

distributes who receive benefits under 

the programs. Information verifies that 

programs are qualified and that 

distribution are used for qualified 

educational expenses. 

Respondents: State, Local, and Tribal 

Governments. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

4,258,260 hours. 

OMB Number: 1545–21.75. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change to a currently approved 

collection. 

Title: Form 8942—Application for 

Certification of Qualified Investments 

Eligible for Credits; Notice 2010–45— 

Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery 

Project Credit. 

Abstract: On March 23, 2010, the 

President signed the Patient Protection 

and Affordable Care Act (Act) (Pub. L. 

111–148). Section 9023(a) of the Act 

adds section 48D to the Internal 

Revenue Code. Section 48D provides a 

50-percent nonrefundable investment 

tax credit, and corresponding grant in 

lieu of a tax credit, for qualified 

investments in qualifying therapeutic 

discovery projects. The credit and grant 

are designed to encourage investments 

in new therapies relating to diseases. 

Form 8942 will be used to apply for 

certification and credit. 

Respondents: Businesses or other forprofits. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 14,545 

hours. 

OMB Number: 1545–0029. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Title: Employer’s Quarterly Federal 

Tax Return. 

Form: 941 series and schedules. 

Abstract: Form 941 is used by 

employers to report payments made to 

employees subject to income and social 

security/Medicare taxes and the 

amounts of these taxes. Form 941–PR is 

used by employers in Puerto Rico to 

report social security and Medicare 

taxes only. Form 941–SS is used by 

employers in the U.S. possessions to 

report social security and Medicare 

taxes only. Schedule B is used by 

employers to record their employment 

tax liability. 

Respondents: Private sector: 

Businesses or other for-profits. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

388,256,964 hours. 

OMB Number: 1545–2173. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change to a currently approved 

collection. 

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