21800 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 79 / Monday, April 24, 2000 / Notices

1See San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co.—

Acquisition and Lease Exemption—Southern

Pacific Transportation Company, Finance Docket

No. 31993 (Sub-No. 1) (ICC served Oct. 4, 1993),

and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company—

Acquisition and Operation Exemption-Tulare

Valley Railroad Company, STB Finance Docket No.

33723 (STB served Mar. 30, 1999).

2Under 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(2), the railroad must

file a verified notice with the Board at least 50 days

before the abandonment or discontinuance is to be

consummated. SJVR, in its verified notice tendered

for filing on March 22, 2000, indicated a proposed

consummation date of May 15, 2000. Because

applicant had failed to publish notice in the

newspaper as required, the verified notice was not

complete until April 4, 2000, when proof of

newspaper publication was received at the Board

and hence the notice was not deemed filed until

then. Thus, the earliest possible consummation date

is May 24, 2000. Applicant’s representative has

confirmed that the correct consummation date is on

or after May 24, 2000.

3The 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 in its independent

investigation) cannot be made before the

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[CGD08–00–008]

Houston/Galveston Navigation Safety

Advisory Committee Meeting

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

SUMMARY: The Houston/Galveston

Navigation Safety Advisory Committee

(HOGANSAC) and its working

committees will meet to discuss

waterway improvements, aids to

navigation, Houston/Galveston-area

projects impacting safety on the

Houston Ship Channel, and various

other navigation safety matters in the

Houston/Galveston area. All meetings

will be open to the public.

DATES: The next meeting of HOGANSAC

will be held on Wednesday, May 24,

2000 from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 11

a.m. The meeting of the Committee’s

working groups will be held on

Thursday, May 4, 2000 at 10 a.m. The

meetings may adjourn early if all

business is finished. Members of the

public may present written or oral

statements at either meeting.

ADDRESSES: The HOGANSAC meeting

will be held in the conference room of

the Houston Pilots’ Office, 8150 South

Loop East, Houston, TX. The working

group meeting will be held at the

Houston Yacht Club, 3620 Miramar,

Seabrook, TX.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Captain Wayne Gusman, Executive

Director of HOGANSAC, telephone

(713) 671–5199; or Commander Peter

Simons, Executive Secretary of

HOGANSAC, telephone (713) 671–5164.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of

this meeting is given pursuant to the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5

U.S.C. App. 2.

Agendas of the Meetings

Houston/Galveston Navigation Safety

Advisory Committee (HOGANSAC)

The tentative agenda includes the

following:

(1) Opening remarks by the Committee

Sponsor (RADM Pluta) (or the

Committee Sponsor’s

representative), Executive Director

(CAPT Gusman) and Chairman

(Tim Leitzell).

(2) Swearing in of new Committee

members

(3) Approval of the January 28, 2000

minutes.

(4) Status of dredging projects.

(5) Barge lanes.

(6) Facility mooring depths data

collection.

(7) Hurricane restoration plan.

(8) Eighth Coast Guard District, Office of

Aids to Navigation, presentation on

aids to navigation reconfiguration

schedule.

(9) Seaman’s Church Institute

presentation on Houston simulator

project.

(10) New business.

Working Committee Meeting

The tentative agenda for the working

committee meeting includes the

following:

(1) Presentation by each work group of

its accomplishments and plans for

the future.

(2) Review and discuss the work

completed by each work group.

Work groups were formed to examine

the following issues: hurricane

contingency plan, PORTS funding/

TCOON operability, dredging and

related issues, barge lanes, electronic

navigation systems, port emergency

communications committee/internet

site, AtoN knockdowns, VTS radio

frequency congestion.

All work groups may not necessarily

report out at this session. Further, work

group reports may not necessarily

include discussions on all issues within

the particular work group’s area of

responsibility.

All meetings are open to the public.

Please note that the meetings may

adjourn early if all business is finished.

Members of the public may make oral

presentations during either meeting.

Information on Services for the

Handicapped

For information on facilities or

services for the handicapped or to

request special assistance at the

meetings, contact the Executive Director

as soon as possible.

Dated: April 8, 2000.

Paul J. Pluta,

Rear Admiral, U. S. Coast Guard,

Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District.

[FR Doc. 00–10152 Filed 4–21–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Docket No. AB–398 (Sub–No. 6X)]

San Joaquin Valley Railroad

Company—Abandonment Exemption—

in Kern County, CA

San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company

(SJVR) has filed a notice of exemption

under 49 CFR part 1152 Subpart F—

Exempt Abandonments to abandon an

approximately half mile segment of

railroad on the Oil City Subdivision,

between milepost 311.9 and milepost

312.5 at or near Maltha, in Kern County,

CA.1 The line traverses United States

Postal Service Zip Code 93308.2

SJVR has certified that: (1) No local

traffic has moved over the line for at

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on

the line can 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 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 May 24, 2000, unless stayed

pending reconsideration. Petitions to

stay that do not involve environmental

issues,3 formal expressions of intent to