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1Motive Rail, Inc. d/b/a Missouri North Central 

Railroad (Motive Rail) also has operating authority 

for a portion of this line. Motive Rail has filed a 

notice of exemption to discontinue service in 

Motive Rail, Inc. d/b/a Missouri North Central 

Railroad—Discontinuance Exemption—in 

Livingston, Linn and Chariton Counties, MO, STB 

Docket No. AB–993X. 

2Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which currently is set at $1,300. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

3Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and 

not an abandonment, trail use/rail banking and 

public use conditions are not appropriate. Likewise, 

no environmental or historical documentation is 

required here under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and 

1105.8(b), respectively. 

1Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance 

Authority (CBRA) also has operating authority for 

a portion of this line. CBRA has filed a notice of 

exemption to discontinue service in ChillicotheBrunswick Rail Maintenance Authority—

Discontinuance of Exemption—In Livingston, Linn 

and Chariton Counties, MO, STB Docket No. AB–

1001X. 

railroads are required to file the Waybill 

Sample. In addition, information 

collected in the Waybill Compliance 

Survey, on a voluntary basis, about the 

total operating revenue of each railroad 

helps to determine whether respondents 

are subject to other statutory or 

regulatory requirements. Accurate 

determinations regarding the size of a 

railroad help the Board minimize the 

reporting burden for smaller railroads. 

The Board has authority to collect this 

information under 49 U.S.C. 11144 and 

11145 and under 49 CFR 1244.2. 

DATES: Comments on this information 

collection may be submitted by March 

26, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be directed to the Office of Management 

and Budget, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Surface 

Transportation Board Desk Officer, 

Room 10235, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, or to 

Alexander_T._Hunt@omb.eop.gov. 

When submitting comments, please 

refer to ‘‘Waybill Compliance Survey, 

OMB control number 2140–0010.’’

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO OBTAIN

A COPY OF THE STB FORM, CONTACT: Mac 

Frampton at (202) 565–1541 or at 

hugh.frampton@stb.dot.gov. [Assistance 

for the hearing impaired is available 

through the Federal Information Relay 

Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.] 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA, a Federal agency conducting or 

sponsoring a collection of information 

must display a currently valid OMB 

control number. A collection of 

information, which is defined in 44 

U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c), 

includes agency requirements that 

persons submit reports, keep records, or 

provide information to the agency, third 

parties, or the public. Section 3507(b) of 

the PRA requires, concurrent with an 

agency’s submitting a collection to OMB 

for approval, a 30-day notice and 

comment period through publication in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information. 

Dated: February 23, 2007. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–3148 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–1001X] 

Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail 

Maintenance Authority—

Discontinuance Exemption—in 

Livingston, Linn, and Chariton 

Counties, MO 

Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail 

Maintenance Authority (CBRA) has filed 

a notice of exemption under 49 CFR Part 

1152 Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments and Discontinuances of 

Services to discontinue service over an 

approximately 37.44-mile line of 

railroad between milepost 226.0, in 

Chillicothe, and milepost 188.56, near 

Brunswick, in Livingston, Linn, and 

Chariton Counties, MO.1 The line 

traverses United States Postal Service 

Zip Codes 64601, 64681, 65236, 65286, 

64643, and 64659. 

CBRA has certified that: (1) No 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 

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 

1105.12 (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 

discontinuance of service 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 March 

27, 2007, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do 

not involve environmental issues and 

formal expressions of intent to file an 

OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2) 2 must 

be filed by March 5, 2007.3 Petitions to 

reopen must be filed by March 15, 2007, 

with the Surface Transportation Board, 

1925 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20423–0001. Filings made after March 

5, 2007, should be sent to the Board’s 

new address: Surface Transportation 

Board, 395 E Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20423–0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to CBRA’s 

representative: Charles H. Montange, 

426 NW 162d Street, Seattle, WA 98177. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: February 16, 2007. 

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–3179 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–993X] 

Motive Rail, Inc. d/b/a Missouri North 

Central Railroad—Discontinuance 

Exemption—in Livingston, Linn, and 

Chariton Counties, MO 

Motive Rail, Inc. d/b/a Missouri North 

Central Railroad (Motive Rail) has filed 

a notice of exemption under 49 CFR Part 

1152 Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments and Discontinuances of 

Services to discontinue service over an 

approximately 29.55-mile line of 

railroad between milepost 218.25, near 

Norville, and milepost 188.7 near Kelly, 

in Livingston, Linn, and Chariton 

Counties, MO.1 The line traverses 

United States Postal Service Zip Codes 


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2Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which currently is set at $1,300. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

3Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and 

not an abandonment, trail use/rail banking and 

public use conditions are not appropriate. Likewise, 

no environmental or historical documentation is 

required here under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and 

1105.8(b), respectively. 

64601, 64681, 65236, 65286, 64643, and 

64659. 

Motive Rail has certified that: (1) No 

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 

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 

1105.12 (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 

discontinuance of service 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 March 

27, 2007, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do 

not involve environmental issues and 

formal expressions of intent to file an 

OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2) 2 must 

be filed by March 5, 2007.3 Petitions to 

reopen must be filed by March 15, 2007, 

with the Surface Transportation Board, 

1925 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20423–0001. Filings made after March 

5, 2007, should be sent to the Board’s 

new address: Surface Transportation 

Board, 395 E Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20423–0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to Motive Rail’s 

representative: Charles H. Montange, 

426 NW 162d Street, Seattle, WA 98177. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: February 16, 2007. 

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, 

Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–3146 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Allowance for Private Purchase of an 

Outer Burial Receptacle in Lieu of a 

Government-Furnished Graveliner for 

a Grave in a VA National Cemetery; 

Republication 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice; republication. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

(VA) is republishing this notice due to 

an administrative error in the published 

version. This notice replaces the notice 

that was published February 15, 2007 at 

72 FR 7513. 

Public Law 104–275 was enacted on 

October 9, 1996. It allows the 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to 

provide a monetary allowance towards 

the private purchase of an outer burial 

receptacle for use in a VA national 

cemetery. Under VA regulation (38 CFR 

38.629), the allowance is equal to the 

average cost of Government-furnished 

graveliners less any administrative costs 

to VA. The law provides a veteran’s 

survivors with the option of selecting a 

Government-furnished graveliner for 

use in a VA national cemetery where 

such use is authorized. 

The purpose of this Notice is to notify 

interested parties of the average cost of 

Government-furnished graveliners, 

administrative costs that relate to 

processing and paying the allowance, 

and the amount of the allowance 

payable for qualifying interments that 

occur during calendar year 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl 

Lockamy, Budget Operations and Field 

Support (41B1C), National Cemetery 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20420. Telephone: 

202–273–5162 (this is not a toll-free 

number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 38 

U.S.C. 2306(e)(3) and (4) and Public 

Law 104–275, Section 213, VA may 

provide a monetary allowance for the 

private purchase of an outer burial 

receptacle for use in a VA national 

cemetery where its use is authorized. 

The allowance for qualified interments 

that occur during calendar year 2007 is 

the average cost of Governmentfurnished graveliners in fiscal year 

2006, less the administrative costs 

incurred by VA in processing and 

paying the allowance in lieu of the 

Government-furnished graveliner. 

The average cost of Governmentfurnished graveliners is determined by 

taking VA’s total cost during a fiscal 

year for single-depth graveliners that 

were procured for placement at the time 

of interment and dividing it by the total 

number of such graveliners procured by 

VA during that fiscal year. The 

calculation excludes both graveliners 

procured and pre-placed in gravesites as 

part of cemetery gravesite development 

projects and all double-depth 

graveliners. Using this method of 

computation, the average cost was 

determined to be $197.67 for fiscal year 

2006. 

The administrative costs incurred by 

VA consist of those costs that relate to 

processing and paying an allowance in 

lieu of the Government-furnished 

graveliner. These costs have been 

determined to be $9.00 for calendar year 

2007. 

The allowance payable for qualifying 

interments occurring during calendar 

year 2007, therefore, is $188.67. 

Approved: February 9, 2007. 

Gordon H. Mansfield, 

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E7–3136 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

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