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1The 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 (SEA) in its independent 

investigation) cannot be made before the 

exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any 

request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible 

so that the Board may take appropriate action before 

the exemption’s effective date. 

[FR Doc. 07–1272 Filed 3–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4909–60–M 

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 (Pub. 

L. 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 1 p.m.–3 p.m. 

on Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at the 

Great Lakes Room of the Coast 

Restaurant, 931 E. Wisconsin Avenue, 

Milwaukee, WI 53202. 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 March 30, 2007, 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. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on March 13, 

2007. 

Collister Johnson, Jr., 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E7–4863 Filed 3–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–61–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Finance Docket No. 35004] 

The Kansas City Southern Railway 

Company—Temporary Trackage 

Rights Exemption—Union Pacific 

Railroad Company 

Pursuant to a written trackage rights 

agreement dated February 28, 2007, 

Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 

has agreed to grant temporary overhead 

trackage rights to The Kansas City 

Southern Railway Company (KCSR): (1) 

On UP’s Little Rock Subdivision, 

extending between milepost 51.0 at 

Jefferson, TX, and milepost 344.3 at 

North Little Rock, AR; and (2) on UP’s 

Van Buren and Wagoner Subdivisions, 

extending between milepost 344.3 at 

North Little Rock, AR, and milepost 

526.7 at Sallisaw, OK, a distance of 

approximately 379.3 miles. 

The transaction is scheduled to be 

consummated on April 5, 2007, the 

effective date of the exemption (30 days 

after the exemption was filed). The 

temporary trackage rights are scheduled 

to expire on July 1, 2007. 

The sole purpose of the temporary 

trackage rights is to facilitate the 

bridging of KCSR’s train service while 

KCSR’s lines on its Shreveport and 

Heavener Subdivisions are out of 

service due to maintenance operations 

over those Subdivisions. 

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 employees 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 effectiveness of 

the exemption. Stay petitions must be 

filed by March 29, 2007 (at least 7 days 

before the exemption becomes 

effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to STB Finance 

Docket No. 35004, must be filed with 

the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423–

1001. In addition, a copy of each 

pleading must be served on William A. 

Mullins, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: March 9, 2007. 

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–4770 Filed 3–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–6 (Sub-No. 448X)] 

BNSF Railway Company—

Abandonment Exemption—in Thurston 

County, WA 

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) has 

filed a notice of exemption under 49 

CFR Part 1152 Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments to abandon a 0.86-mile 

line of railroad that extends between 

Engineering Station 476+09 and 

Engineering Station 521+42 near 

Olympia, in Thurston County, WA. The 

line traverses United States Postal 

Service Zip Code 98502. 

BNSF has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic 

handled 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 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 April 17, 

2007, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do 

not involve environmental issues,1

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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). 

OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),2 and 

trail use/rail banking requests under 49 

CFR 1152.29 must be filed by March 26, 

2007. Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by April 5, 2007, 

with: Surface Transportation Board, 395 

E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423–

0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to BNSF’s 

representative: Sidney L. Strickland, Jr., 

Sidney Strickland and Associates, 

PLLC, 3050 K Street, NW., Suite 101, 

Washington, DC 20007. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

BNSF has filed environmental and 

historic reports which address the 

effects, if any, of the abandonment on 

the environment and historic resources. 

SEA will issue an environmental 

assessment (EA) by March 23, 2007. 

Interested persons may obtain a copy of 

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 1100, 

Surface Transportation Board, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by 

calling SEA, at (202) 245–0305. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.] Comments on 

environmental and historic preservation 

matters must be filed within 15 days 

after the EA becomes available to the 

public. 

Environmental, historic preservation, 

public use, or trail use/rail banking 

conditions will be imposed, where 

appropriate, in a subsequent decision. 

Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR 

1152.29(e)(2), BNSF shall file a notice of 

consummation with the Board to signify 

that it has exercised the authority 

granted and fully abandoned the line. If 

consummation has not been effected by 

BNSF’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by March 16, 2008, and 

there are no legal or regulatory barriers 

to consummation, the authority to 

abandon will automatically expire. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: March 8, 2007. 

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–4768 Filed 3–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Enhanced-Use Lease Development of 

Property at the Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) Sepulveda Ambulatory 

Care Center in Sepulveda, CA 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to enter into an 

enhanced-use lease. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of the 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 

intends to enter into two enhanced-use 

leases with a joint venture consisting of 

two not-for-profit organizations. Each 

enhanced-use lease will include a 

building with an underlying parcel of 

land. Both parcels are located on 

approximately 5 acres of the VA 

Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center 

campus in Sepulveda, California. The 

lessee would develop, finance, renovate, 

construct, manage, maintain and operate 

the buildings to provide permanent 

supportive housing and ancillary 

services for the homeless, with priority 

placement for homeless veterans within 

the community. In addition to such 

property enhancements and veteran 

services, VA would receive 

consideration for the lease, in the form 

of in-kind services such as training, use 

of space, and professional counseling 

services to veteran tenants, and cash in 

the form of a percentage of revenues 

from certain filmmaking activities on 

the property. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William Sexton, Office of Asset 

Enterprise Management (004B), 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20420, (202) 273–9470. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 8 

U.S.C. 8161 et seq. states that the 

Secretary may enter into an enhanceduse lease if he determines that the 

implementation of a business plan 

proposed by the Under Secretary for 

Health for applying the consideration 

under such a lease to the provision of 

medical care and services would result 

in a demonstrable improvement of 

services to eligible veterans in the 

geographic service-delivery area within 

which the property is located. This 

project meets this requirement. 

Approved: March 8, 2007. 

R. James Nicholson, 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E7–4827 Filed 3–15–07; 8:45 am] 

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