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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] 

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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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