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Development (UNCED) and World 

Summit on Sustainable Development 

(WSSD); 

—Technical co-operation programme; 

—Future role of formal safety 

assessment and human element 

issues; 

—Work program of the Committee and 

subsidiary bodies; 

—Application of the Committees’

Guidelines; and 

—Consideration of the report of the 

Committee. 

Please note that hard copies of 

documents associated with MEPC 55 

will not be available at this meeting. 

Documents will be available in Adobe 

Acrobat format on CD–ROM. To request 

documents please write to the address 

provided below, or request documents 

via the following Internet link: http:// 

www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/mso/ 

MOMEPC.htm. 

Members of the public may attend 

this meeting up to the seating capacity 

of the room. Interested persons may 

seek information by writing to 

Lieutenant Heather St. Pierre, 

Commandant (G–PSO–4), U.S. Coast 

Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second 

Street, SW., Room 1601, Washington, 

DC 20593–0001 or by calling (202) 372–

1432. 

Dated: August 9, 2006. 

Margaret Hayes, 

Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating 

Committee, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. E6–13681 Filed 8–17–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 5456 ] 

Shipping Coordinating Committee; 

Notice of Meeting 

The Working Group on 

Radiocommunications and Search and 

Rescue (COMSAR) of the Subcommittee 

on Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) will 

conduct open meetings at 9:30 a.m. on 

Thursday, October 5, November 9, 

December 7, 2006 and January 4, 

February 8, 2007. The meetings will be 

held in suite 1060 of the Radio 

Technical Commission for Maritime 

Services (RTCM), 1800 North Kent 

Street, Arlington, VA 22209. This 

meeting is to prepare for the Eleventh 

Session of the International Maritime 

Organization (IMO) SOLAS COMSAR 

Sub-Committee scheduled for the week 

of February 19–23, 2007 in London, 

England. 

Members of the public may attend 

these meetings up to the seating 

capacity of the rooms. Interested 

persons may seek information, 

including meeting room numbers, by 

writing: Mr. Russell S. Levin, U.S. Coast 

Guard Headquarters, Commandant (CG–

622), Jemal Building Room JR10–1216, 

1900 Half Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20593 or by sending Internet electronic 

mail to rlevin@comdt.uscg.mil. 

Dated: August 9, 2006. 

Margaret Hayes, 

Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating 

Committee, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. E6–13682 Filed 8–17–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 5517] 

Receipt of Application for a Permit for 

Pipeline Facilities To Be Constructed 

and Maintained on the Borders of the 

United States 

AGENCY: Department of State. 

The Department of State has received 

an application from TransCanada 

Keystone Pipeline, LP (‘‘Keystone’’) for 

a Presidential permit, pursuant to 

Executive Order 11423 of August 16, 

1968, as amended by Executive Order 

12847 of May 17, 1993, and Executive 

Order 13284 of January 23, 2003 to 

construct, connect, operate, and 

maintain the Keystone Pipeline Project 

at the U.S.-Canadian border at Cavalier 

County, North Dakota, for the purpose 

of transporting Canadian crude oil 

production from the Western Canadian 

Sedimentary Basin (‘‘WCSB’’) to 

existing terminals in Missouri, Illinois, 

and potentially, Oklahoma. 

TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP, 

is a limited liability company, organized 

under the laws of the State of Delaware. 

Keystone is a wholly-owned subsidiary 

of TransCanada Oil Pipelines Inc., a 

Delaware Corporation, with its principal 

office located at 450 1st Street, SW., 

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2P 5H1. The 

proposed new pipeline would consist in 

the U.S. of 1,018 miles of 30-inch 

diameter pipeline and 55 miles of 24- 

inch diameter pipeline (‘‘Keystone 

Mainline’’) from the U.S.-Canadian 

border at Cavalier County, North 

Dakota, to Patoka, Illinois. If the 

extension to Cushing, Oklahoma 

(‘‘Cushing Extension’’) is constructed, it 

will consist of an additional 291 miles 

of 30-inch pipeline for a total of 1365 

miles of pipeline. In Canada, the project 

would involve the sale to Keystone of an 

existing 530 mile, 34-inch diameter 

natural gas transmission pipeline 

currently owned by TransCanada 

Limited and conversion of that line to 

crude oil service. In addition, Keystone 

will construct 230 miles of pipeline 

from Hardisty to the converted line and 

an additional 62 miles of pipeline from 

the converted line to the U.S. border. 

As required by E.O. 13337, the 

Department of State is circulating this 

application to concerned Federal 

agencies for comment. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit, in duplicate, comments relative 

to this proposal on or before September 

18, 2006 to Elizabeth Orlando, Office of 

Environmental Policy, Department of 

State, Washington, DC 20520. The 

application and related documents that 

are part of the record to be considered 

by the Department of State in 

connection with this application are 

available for inspection in the Office of 

Environmental Policy during normal 

business hours. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Orlando, Office of 

Environmental Policy, Department of 

State, Washington, DC 20520, telephone 

202–647–4284, facsimile 202–647–1052, 

E-mail orlandoea2@state.gov. 

Dated: August 14, 2006. 

John Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Environmental 

Policy, U.S. Department of State. 

[FR Doc. E6–13626 Filed 8–17–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Environmental Impact Statement; 

Smith County, TX 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

will be prepared for the proposed U.S. 

Highway (U.S.) 69/Loop 49 North 

Lindale Reliever Route (LRR) project in 

Smith County, Texas. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donald E. Davis, District Engineer, 

Federal Highway Administration—

Texas Division, 300 E. 8th Street, 

Austin, Texas 78701, Telephone: 512–

536–5960. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FHWA, in cooperation with the Texas 

Department of Transportation (TxDOT), 

will prepare an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) for a proposal to 

construct a Lindale Reliever Route in 

Smith County, Texas. The proposed 

improvement would involve 

construction of a new location roadway 


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from the planned Loop 49 West/IH 20 

interchange to connect with the existing 

U.S. 69 north of the City of Lindale, a 

roadway distance of approximately 5–6 

miles. 

The proposed Lindale Reliever Route 

would serve as a connector between 

Loop 49 and U.S. 69 and address safety, 

mobility, connectivity and capacity 

needs. 

Alternatives under consideration 

include (1) taking no action (the nobuild alternative), (2) constructing a 

proposed Lindale Reliever Route facility 

built to current highway standards, and 

(3) improvements to existing highways. 

The proposed facility will be evaluated 

as a toll road project. A Feasibility 

Study prepared in 2001 evaluated four 

corridor alternatives along new location 

right-of-way and a No-Build alternative, 

resulting in the identification of a 

recommended study corridor. 

Subsequent public involvement 

opportunities have identified additional 

study corridors. Evaluation of a 

reasonable number of alignment 

alternatives will be documented in the 

EIS, as well as the no-build and existing 

highway improvement alternatives, 

based on input from federal, state, and 

local agencies, as well as private 

organizations and concerned citizens. 

The EIS will evaluate potential 

impacts from construction and 

operation of the proposed roadway 

including, but not limited to, the 

following: Impacts to residences and 

businesses, including potential 

relocations and displacements; 

transportation impacts (construction 

detours, construction traffic, and 

mobility improvement); air and noise 

impacts from construction equipment 

and operation of the roadway; social 

and economic impacts; impacts to 

cultural resources; water quality 

impacts from construction and roadway 

runoff; impacts related to tolling; and 

impacts to waters of the U.S. including 

wetlands from right-of-way 

encroachment. 

Correspondence describing the 

proposed project and soliciting 

comments will be sent to appropriate 

federal, state, and local agencies, and to 

private organizations and citizens who 

have previously expressed interest in 

the proposal. TxDOT completed a 

Feasibility Study for the project in May 

2001. In conjunction with the 

Feasibility Study, TxDOT developed a 

steering committee, provided project 

information at two public meetings, and 

met with interested stakeholders. An 

agency scoping meeting is anticipated to 

be held by TxDOT in September 2006 to 

coordinate and solicit agency 

representatives’ input on project plans 

including the purpose and need and the 

range of alternatives, introduce project 

team members, obtain comments 

pertaining to the scope of the EIS, 

identify important issues, set goals, 

develop project schedule, and respond 

to questions. A continuing public 

involvement program will include a 

project mailing list, project newsletters, 

a public scoping meeting (public notice 

will be given of the time and place), and 

numerous informal meetings with 

interested citizens and stakeholders. In 

addition, a public hearing will be held 

after the publication of the Draft EIS. 

Public notice will be given of the time 

and place of the hearing. The Draft EIS 

will be available for public and agency 

review and comment prior to the public 

hearing. 

To ensure that the full range of issues 

related to this proposed action are 

addressed and all significant issues 

identified, comments and suggestions 

are invited from all interested parties. 

Comments or questions concerning this 

proposed action and the EIS should be 

directed to the FHWA at the address 

provided above. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Number 20.205, Highway Research 

Planning and Construction. The regulations 

implementing Executive Order 12373 

regarding intergovernmental consultation on 

Federal programs and activities apply to this 

program.) 

Donald E. Davis, 

District Engineer. 

[FR Doc. 06–7012 Filed 8–17–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

Adoption of Environmental Impact 

Statement, Participation in a Section 

106 Programmatic Agreement, and 

Notice of Availability of Section 4(f)/ 

303 Statement 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Adoption and Recirculation of 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

and Final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement; Participation as a 

Concurring Party to a Section 106 

Programmatic Agreement; and Notice of 

Availability of a Draft Section 4(f)/303 

Statement. 

SUMMARY: FRA is issuing this notice to 

advise the public and interested 

agencies that FRA has decided to adopt 

the Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) and Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement (SEIS) issued by the 

Surface Transportation Board (STB) for 

construction and operation of a new rail 

line and related improvements by the 

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad 

Corporation (DM&E). Under applicable 

regulations, FRA is allowed to adopt 

and recirculate the STB’s Final EIS and 

Final SEIS as its own, since FRA’s 

proposed action is substantially the 

same as the action covered by the STB’s 

EISs. The FRA further announces the 

availability of a draft Section 4(f)/303 

Statement prepared for the Project by 

the FRA pursuant to Section 4(f) of the 

Department of Transportation Act (49 

U.S.C. § 303(c)). The draft Section 4(f)/ 

303 Statement and STB’s EISs are 

available and comments may be 

submitted as indicated below. 

This project, known as the Powder 

River Basin Expansion Project (Project), 

would involve construction of 

approximately 280 miles of new rail line 

to reach the coal mines of Wyoming’s 

Powder River Basin and reconstruction 

of another approximately 600 miles of 

DM&E’s existing rail line that would 

allow operation of unit coal trains along 

the reconstructed route to and from the 

new line. The Project takes place in the 

States of Minnesota, South Dakota and 

Wyoming. The DM&E has applied to the 

FRA for a $2.3 billion loan under the 

Railroad Rehabilitation and 

Improvement Financing (RRIF) program 

to finance the Project. 

DATES: Submit comments on the Final 

EIS, Final SEIS, or the draft Section 4(f)/ 

303 Statement no later than October 10, 

2006 to David Valenstein, 

Environmental Program Manager, at the 

address listed below. 

ADDRESSES: The EIS documents and the 

draft Section 4(f)/303 Statement can be 

inspected at the FRA office at the 

address listed below. The draft Section 

4(f)/303 Statement may be obtained 

from the FRA Web site at http:// 

www.fra.dot.gov or by contacting the 

FRA. Additionally, the STB’s Draft EIS, 

Final EIS, Draft SEIS and Final SEIS are 

available in electronic format on the 

STB Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov 

under Environmental Matters, Key 

Cases, DM&E Links and one or more of 

the EISs may be viewed in 70 libraries 

in the Project area as listed on FRA’s 

Web site. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Valenstein, Environmental 

Program Manager; 1120 Vermont 

Avenue, NW.; Mail Stop 20; 

Washington, DC 20590; Phone (202) 

493–6368. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

DM&E filed an application in 1998 with 

the STB for authority to construct and 


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