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established a public docket (Docket No. 

FRA–2006–25169) to provide all 

interested parties with a central location 

to both send and review relevant 

information concerning the safety of 

railroad tank car transportation of 

hazardous materials (July 3, 2006; 71 FR 

37974). 

PHMSA and FRA have scheduled a 

second public meeting as part of DOT’s 

comprehensive review. The meeting 

will be held on the date specified in the 

DATES section of this document and at 

the location specified in the ADDRESSES

section of this document. Although 

DOT’s review includes both tank car 

design and operational factors that affect 

railroad tank car safety, this public 

meeting is intended to focus on the 

issue of potential improvements to 

hazardous materials tank cars 

themselves. 

PHMSA and FRA encourage all 

interested persons to participate in this 

meeting. The agencies intend that this 

meeting will provide an opportunity to 

build upon several issues raised in the 

initial public meeting. Additionally, 

through this meeting, the agencies 

intend to solicit any relevant comments, 

information, or data interested parties 

may be able to provide regarding 

potential enhancements or 

modifications to hazardous materials 

tank cars in order to improve the overall 

safety and security of hazardous 

materials shipments via railroad tank 

car. Although the agencies are interested 

in any comments, information, or data 

relevant to improving tank car design, 

manufacture, or requalification, the 

agencies specifically request data 

related to the following questions: 

1. What new designs, materials, or 

structures should DOT be investigating 

for improved accident/derailment 

survivability of hazardous materials 

tank cars? 

2. Regarding tank car top fittings—are 

there any design changes that would 

enhance the survivability of the top 

fittings (e.g., modifications to height or 

placement of valves or modifications to 

the protective structure that surrounds 

the valves)? 

3. Regarding tank car puncture 

resistance (including the puncture 

resistance of the head and shell of tank 

cars)—are there any design, material, or 

manufacturing changes that could lead 

to improved tank car puncture 

resistance? 

4. In addition to accident 

survivability, are there any other aspects 

of the tank cars (e.g., improved security 

of operating fittings, or an ability to 

locate cars beyond current car 

movement reporting systems), that 

could improve the overall safety and 

security of hazardous materials 

shipments via railroad tank car? 

5. In addition to accident 

survivability, should tank cars be 

designed to withstand other types of 

extraordinary events (e.g., ballistic 

attack or unauthorized access to tank car 

valving)? 

6. The hazardous materials 

regulations now include performance 

standards for coupler vertical restraint 

systems, pressure relief devices, tankhead puncture-resistance systems, 

thermal protection systems, and service 

equipment protection. In addition to, or 

instead of any other improvement made 

to future tank cars, are these standards 

adequate for future tank cars? If not, in 

what areas and aspects are 

improvements needed? 

7. How should PHMSA and FRA 

consider risk factors in determining 

whether to require tank car safety and 

security enhancements? For example, 

should PHMSA and FRA consider the 

risk of the car/commodity pair so that 

improvements would first apply to the 

car/commodity pairs considered to have 

the greatest risk or for which the car/ 

commodity pair will benefit most from 

the improvement? What other risk 

factors should be considered? 

8. Would installation of bearing 

sensors or other on-board tracking/ 

monitoring systems capable of 

monitoring, for example, tank car 

pressure, temperature, and safety 

conditions, improve the safety and 

security of hazardous materials 

shipments by railroad tank car? If so, 

what is the feasibility of implementing 

such a system on hazardous materials 

tank cars? 

9. Would installation of electronically 

controlled pneumatic brake systems on 

tank cars improve the safety of 

hazardous materials shipments by 

railroad tank car by, for example, 

helping to prevent derailments and 

shortening stopping distances? If so, 

what is the feasibility of implementing 

such brake systems on hazardous 

materials tank cars? 

Although PHMSA and FRA are 

specifically requesting comments in 

response to the above questions, we 

invite persons to comment and/or 

provide specific data on any other 

potential improvements to railroad tank 

cars that could lead to improving the 

overall safety and security of the 

transportation of hazardous materials by 

tank car. The agencies ask that 

commenters provide data in the most 

detail possible, including costs of 

design, installation, and maintenance. 

We also specifically solicit expert 

discussion of the issues surrounding 

construction of new tank cars and 

implementation of a retrofit requirement 

for any potential new requirements on 

the design, manufacture, or 

maintenance of existing tank cars. 

The agencies also invite interested 

parties who are unable to attend the 

public meeting, or who otherwise desire 

to submit written comments or data 

responsive to the questions raised 

above, to submit any relevant 

information, data, or comments to the 

DOT Docket Management System 

Docket Number FRA–2006–25169. 

Comments may be submitted by any 

method noted in the ADDRESSES section 

above. 

Issued in Washington, DC on November 13, 

2006, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 

part 106. 

Robert A. McGuire, 

Associate Administrator for Hazardous 

Materials Safety. 

[FR Doc. E6–19413 Filed 11–16–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development 

Corporation 

Advisory Board; Notice of Meeting 

Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public 

Law 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App. I), notice is 

hereby given of a meeting of the 

Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence 

Seaway Development Corporation 

(SLSDC), to be held from 4:30 p.m. to 

5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 5, 

2006, at the Corporation’s 

Administration Headquarters, Room 

5424, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC. The agenda for this 

meeting will be as follows: Opening 

Remarks; Consideration of Minutes of 

Past Meeting; Quarterly Report; Old and 

New Business; Closing Discussion; 

Adjournment. 

Attendance at the meeting is open to 

the interested public but limited to the 

space available. With the approval of 

the Administrator, members of the 

public may present oral statements at 

the meeting. Persons wishing further 

information should contact, not later 

than November 28, 2006, Anita K. 

Blackman, Chief of Staff, Saint 

Lawrence Seaway Development 

Corporation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590; 202–366–0091. 

Any member of the public may 

present a written statement to the 

Advisory Board at any time. 


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Issued at Washington, DC, on November 

13, 2006. 

Collister Johnson, Jr., 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 06–9238 Filed 11–16–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–61–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Finance Docket No. 34866 (Sub-No. 

2)] 

Union Pacific Railroad Company—

Temporary Trackage Rights 

Exemption—The Kansas City Southern 

Railway Company 

The Kansas City Southern Railway 

Company (KCS), pursuant to a written 

trackage rights agreement entered into 

between KCS and Union Pacific 

Railroad Company (UP), has agreed to 

grant UP temporary overhead trackage 

rights, to expire on December 1, 2006, 

over KCS’s trackage between milepost 

482.0 on KCS’s Mexico Subdivision at 

Kansas City, MO, and milepost 252.1 on 

KCS’s East St. Louis Terminal 

Subdivision at Godfrey, IL, a distance of 

approximately 285 miles. The original 

grant of temporary overhead trackage 

rights exempted in Union Pacific 

Railroad Company—Temporary 

Trackage Rights Exemption—The 

Kansas City Southern Railway 

Company, STB Finance Docket No. 

34866 (STB served on May 2, 2006), 

cover the same line. Those trackage 

rights were due to expire on July 31, 

2006, but were extended to October 31, 

2006, in a decision served on July 20, 

2006, in the (Sub-No. 1) proceeding in 

this docket. The purpose of this 

transaction is to modify the temporary 

overhead trackage rights previously 

exempted by extending the expiration 

date from October 31, 2006, to 

December 1, 2006. 

The transaction was scheduled to be 

consummated on November 6, 2006, the 

effective date of the exemption. The 

purpose of the temporary overhead 

trackage rights is to facilitate 

maintenance work on UP lines. 

As a condition to this exemption, any 

employees affected by the acquisition of 

the temporary trackage rights will be 

protected by the conditions imposed in 

Norfolk and Western Ry. Co.—Trackage 

Rights—BN, 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as 

modified in Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.—

Lease and Operate, 360 I.C.C. 653 

(1980), and any employee affected by 

the discontinuance of those trackage 

rights will be protected by the 

conditions set out in Oregon Short Line 

R. Co.—Abandonment—Goshen, 360 

I.C.C. 91 (1979). 

This notice is filed under 49 CFR 

1180.2(d)(8). If it 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 transaction. 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to STB Finance 

Docket No. 34866 (Sub-No. 2), must be 

filed with the Surface Transportation 

Board, 1925 K Street, N.W., Washington, 

DC 20423–0001. In addition, a copy of 

each pleading must be served on Gabriel 

S. Meyer, Assistant General Attorney, 

Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1400 

Douglas Street, STOP 1580, Omaha, NE 

68179. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: November 9, 2006. 

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E6–19407 Filed 11–16–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Fiscal Service 

Surety Companies Acceptable on 

Federal Bonds: Beazley Insurance 

Company, Inc 

AGENCY: Financial Management Service, 

Fiscal Service, Department of the 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is Supplement No. 4 to 

the Treasury Department Circular 570, 

2006 Revision, published June 30, 2006, 

at 71 FR 37694. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Surety Bond Branch at (202) 874–6850. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A 

Certificate of Authority as an acceptable 

surety on Federal bonds is hereby 

issued under 31 U.S.C. 9305 to the 

following company: Beazley Insurance 

Company, Inc. (NAIC #37540). Business 

Address: 20 Stanford Drive, Farmington, 

Connecticut 06032. Phone: (860) 677–

3700. Underwriting Limitation b/: Surety 

Licenses c/: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, 

CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, 

KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, 

MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, 

PA, RI, SD, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, 

WI, WY. Incorporated in: Connecticut. 

Federal bond-approving officers 

should annotate their reference copies 

of the Treasury Circular 570 

(‘‘Circular’’), 2006 Revision, to reflect 

this addition. 

Certificates of Authority expire on 

June 30th each year, unless revoked 

prior to that date. The Certificates are 

subject to subsequent annual renewal as 

long as the companies remain qualified 

(see 31 CFR part 223). A list of qualified 

companies is published annually as of 

July 1 in the Circular, which outlines 

details as to underwriting limitations, 

ares in which companies are licensed to 

transact surety business, and other 

information. 

The Circular may be viewed and 

downloaded through the Internet at 

http://www.fms.treas.gov/c570. 

Questions concerning this Notice may 

be directed to the U.S. Department of 

the Treasury, Financial Management 

Service, Financial Accounting and 

Services Division, Surety Bond Branch, 

3700 East-West Highway, Room 6F01, 

Hyattsville, MD 20782. 

Dated: November 9, 2006. 

Vivian L. Cooper, 

Director, Financial Accounting and Services 

Division, Financial Management Service. 

[FR Doc. 06–9241 Filed 11–16–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–35–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for Form 8831 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is 

soliciting comments concerning Form 

8831, Excise Taxes on Excess Inclusions 

of REMIC Residual Interests. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before January 16, 2007 

to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Glenn Kirkland Internal Revenue 

Service, room 6516, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the form and instructions 


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