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1Specifically, the application, as amended, 

identified the line to be abandoned as comprising: 

(1) The Madawaska Subdivision, consisting of 

approximately 151 miles of line between milepost 

109 near Millinocket and milepost 260 near 

Madawaska in Penobscot and Aroostook Counties; 

(2) the Presque Isle Subdivision, consisting of 

approximately 25.3 miles of line between milepost 

0.0 near Squa Pan and milepost 25.3 near Presque 

Isle in Aroostook County; (3) the Fort Fairfield 

Subdivision, consisting of approximately 10 miles 

of line between milepost 0.0 near Presque Isle and 

milepost 10.0 near Easton in Aroostook County; (4) 

the Limestone Subdivision, consisting of 

approximately 29.85 miles of line between milepost 

0.0 near Presque Isle and milepost 29.85 near 

Limestone in Aroostook County and; (5) the 

Houlton Subdivision, running between milepost 0.0 

near Oakfield and milepost 17.27 near Houlton in 

Aroostook County, and including the B Spur. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the service contract 

inventory should be directed to William 

Cody in the Procurement Division at 

(303) 844–3499 or William.Cody@sba.

gov. 

Dated: January 26, 2011. 

Jonathan I. Carver, 

Chief Financial Officer/Associate 

Administrator for Performance Management, 

Office of the Chief Financial Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection: Medical 

Standards and Certification 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for to renew an information 

collection. The Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following collection of 

information was published on October 

28, 2010, vol. 75, no. 208, page 66422– 

66423. The information collected is 

used to determine if applicants are 

medically qualified to perform the 

duties associated with the class of 

airman medical certificate sought. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by March 3, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carla Scott on (202) 267–9895, or by email at: Carla.Scott@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0034. 

Title: Medical Standards and 

Certification. 

Form Numbers: FAA Forms 8500–7, 

8500–8, 8500–14, 8500–20. 

Type of Review: Renewal of an 

information collection. 

Background: The Secretary of 

Transportation collects this information 

under the authority of 49 U.S.C. 40113; 

44701; 44510; 44702; 44703; 44709; 

45303; and 80111. Airman medical 

certification program is implemented by 

Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) parts 61 and 67 (14 CFR parts 61 

and 67). Using four forms to collect 

information, the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) determines if 

applicants are medically qualified to 

perform the duties associated with the 

class of airman medical certificate 

sought. 

Respondents: Approximately 380,000 

applicants for airman medical 

certificates. 

Frequency: Information is collected 

on occasion. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 1.5 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

577,982 hours. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to the attention of the Desk Officer, 

Department of Transportation/FAA, and 

sent via electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed 

to (202) 395–6974, or mailed to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 

725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for FAA’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (d) 

ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. The agency 

will summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 25, 

2011. 

Carla Scott, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services 

Division, AES–200. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35463; Docket No. AB 1043 

(Sub-No. 1)] 

Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, 

Ltd.—Modified Rail Certificate—in 

Aroostook and Penobscot Counties, 

Me.; Montreal, Maine & Atlantic 

Railway, Ltd.—Discontinuance of 

Service and Abandonment—in 

Aroostook and Penobscot Counties, 

ME. 

Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, 

Ltd. (MMA) has requested a modified 

certificate of public convenience and 

necessity, pursuant to 49 CFR part 1150 

subpart C—Modified Certificate of 

Public Convenience and Necessity. 

MMA wants to operate, on an interim 

basis, approximately 233 miles of rail 

line in Aroostook and Penobscot 

Counties, Me. This line was the subject 

of the abandonment application granted 

by the Board in Montreal, Maine & 

Atlantic Railway, Ltd.—Discontinuance 

of Service and Abandonment—in 

Aroostook and Penobscot Counties, Me., 

AB 1043 (Sub-No. 1) (STB served Dec. 

27, 2010).1

The State of Maine, by and through its 

Department of Transportation (State), 

actively sought to preserve service on 

the line. To that end, the State, with 

Board help, reached an agreement to 

purchase the line from MMA. Should 

the Board grant MMA abandonment 

authority, the State proposed to acquire 

the line pursuant to the class exemption 

found in Common Carrier Status of 

States, State Agencies and 

Instrumentalities, and Political 

Subdivisions, 363 I.C.C. 132 (1980) 

(Common Carrier), aff’d sub nom. 

Simmons v. ICC, 697 F.2d 326 (DC Cir. 

1982) and codified at 49 CFR 1150.22. 

The State also proposed to find a new 

operator. MMA agreed to the State’s 

proposal, agreed to provide interim 

service until the new operator can begin 


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operations, and requested that the Board 

issue a modified certificate in regards to 

the interim service. 

In its December 27, 2010 decision 

granting MMA’s application to abandon 

the line, the Board found that MMA 

already met a number of criteria 

necessary for the issuance of a modified 

certificate. Specifically, the Board found 

that the parties had provided: (1) The 

name and address of the operator, 

MMA; (2) the information on the 

abandonment giving rise to the 

acquisition by the State; (3) the 

proposed operation by MMA, and (4) a 

statement by MMA that it will receive 

no subsidies in connection with its 

operations, and that there will be no 

preconditions that shippers must meet 

to receive service. 

The Board granted the certificate to 

provide interim service in the December 

27, 2010 decision, but it required that 

MMA submit into the record the parties’ 

Interim Service Agreement and 

information on MMA’s liability 

insurance coverage. Once this 

information has been filed and the State 

has acquired the line, the Board stated 

that the modified certificate would 

become effective and appropriate notice 

pursuant to 49 CFR 1150.23 would be 

published in the Federal Register. 

On January 18, 2011, MMA filed the 

requisite data and averred that it 

conveyed the line to the State on 

January 14, 2011. MMA’s modified 

certificate has become effective, and it 

may provide interim service under the 

certificate. 

This notice will be served on the 

Association of American Railroads (Car 

Service Division) as agent for all 

railroads subscribing to the car-service 

and car-hire agreement at 425 Third 

Street, SW., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 

20024; and on the American Short Line 

and Regional Railroad Association at 50 

F Street, NW., Suite 7020, Washington, 

DC 20001. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: January 24, 2011. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 30186 (Sub-No. 3)] 

Tongue River Railroad Company, 

Inc.—Construction and Operation— 

Western Alignment 

ACTION: Notice of the re-opening of the 

Programmatic Agreement process to 

update and revise the existing 

Programmatic Agreement. 

SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation 

Board’s (Board’s) Office of 

Environmental Analysis (OEA) 

(formerly the Section of Environmental 

Analysis or SEA) prepared a 

Programmatic Agreement (PA) as the 

final step in the Section 106 process 

under the National Historic Preservation 

Act for Tongue River Railroad 

Company’s (TRRC) application to 

construct and operate a rail line in 

southeastern Montana. A final decision 

authorizing TRRC’s construction and 

operation was issued in October, 2007. 

The PA was prepared in consultation 

with the Section 106 signatory and 

concurring parties and was executed in 

November, 2005. The PA expired on 

November 1, 2010, after an initial term 

of five years. An Amendment to the PA 

has been executed by all signatory 

parties extending the existing PA 

through September 1, 2011, to allow 

time to update and revise it. 

The revision would take into 

consideration the designation of the 

Wolf Mountain Battlefield as a National 

Historic Landmark on October 26, 2008. 

Several Federally recognized Tribes 

have notified the Board of their interest 

in being included in the consultation 

process. The Tribes are concerned about 

impacts related to the rail line 

construction and operation on Wolf 

Mountain Battlefield. The alignment 

approved by the Board in its October 

2007 decision runs through the eastern 

portion of that site. 

OEA has recently invited the United 

States Department of the Interior 

(National Historic Landmarks Program) 

and additional Tribes that may have an 

interest in the project area to participate 

in the PA consultation process. With 

this notice, we now invite any other 

interested parties to participate in the 

PA consultation process. The updated 

PA must be executed by September 1, 

2011. OEA proposes the following 

timeline: 

February 1, 2011—Inform the public 

by Federal Register notice of the reopening of the PA process and seek 

comment from the public (45-day 

comment period). Transmit a Word 

version of the existing PA to current and 

newly designated consulting parties 

seeking comment, with suggested 

changes and edits to the existing PA to 

OEA within 45 days. 

March 18—End of public and 

consulting party comment period. 

March 18—April 15—OEA internal 

review of comments received and 

revision of the PA in consultation with 

consulting parties, as appropriate. 

May 2—OEA transmits revised PA, 

which addresses concerns, to consulting 

parties and members of the public that 

have shown an interest, for 30-day 

comment period. 

June 1–15—OEA internal review of 

comments received and revision of the 

PA in consultation with consulting 

parties, as appropriate. 

June 15—Final PA sent to consulting 

parties for a 15-day review period. 

July 1—Target date for execution of 

revised PA. 

Comments: OEA welcomes at this 

time any general comments you may 

have regarding the Board’s Section 106 

review process for this project, as well 

as specific comments you may have 

regarding the revision of the existing PA 

and OEA’s proposed timeline. 

Comments may be filed electronically 

via the Board’s Web site, http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov, by clicking on the ‘‘E– 

FILING’’ link. Comments may also be 

submitted by e-mail to Kenneth Blodgett 

at blodgettk@stb.dot.gov or by general 

delivery to: 

Kenneth Blodgett, Surface 

Transportation Board, Office of 

Environmental Analysis, 395 E St., 

SW., Washington, DC 20423. 

Please submit all comments by March 

18, 2011 and refer to Docket No. FD 

30186 (Sub-No. 3) in all correspondence 

addressed to the Board. 

The existing PA and the Amendment 

to the PA can be viewed on the Board’s 

Web site at ‘‘Key Cases’’ under 

‘‘Environmental Matters.’’ Contact 

Kenneth Blodgett at 202–245–0305 with 

any questions. 

Decided: January 25, 2011. 

By the Board. 

Victoria Rutson, 

Director, Office of Environmental Analysis. 

Andrea Pope-Matheson, 

Clearance Clerk. 

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