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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. 

2Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing fee 

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

1002.2(f)(25). 

participate, and should indicate a 

requested time allotment, as soon as 

possible, but no later than April 6, 2007. 

Board Releases and Live Audio 

Available Via the Internet. Decisions 

and notices of the Board, including this 

notice, are available on the Board’s Web 

site at http://www.stb.dot.gov. This oral 

argument will be available on the 

Board’s Web site by live audio 

streaming. To access the oral argument, 

click on the ‘‘Live Audio’’ link under 

‘‘Information Center’’ at the left side of 

the home page beginning at 10 a.m. on 

April 19, 2007. 

This action will not significantly 

affect either the quality of the human 

environment or the conservation of 

energy resources. 

Dated: March 29, 2007. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6214 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–6 (Sub-No. 449X)] 

BNSF Railway Company—

Abandonment Exemption—in Swift 

County, MN 

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) has 

filed a notice of exemption under 49 

CFR part 1152 subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments to abandon a rail line 

between Engineering Stations 0 + 00 

and 28 + 61, near Appleton, in Swift 

County, MN, a distance of 0.54 miles. 

The line traverses United States Postal 

Service Zip Code 56208. 

BNSF has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on 

the line can 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 

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 of 49 CFR 1105.7 

(environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.8 

(historic report), 49 CFR 1105.11 

(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12 

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR 

1152.50(d)(l) (notice to governmental 

agencies) have been met. 

As a condition to this exemption, any 

employees 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 May 4, 

2007, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do 

not involve environmental issues,1

formal expressions of intent to file an 

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

trail use/rail banking requests under 49 

CFR 1152.29 must be filed by April 16, 

2007. Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by April 24, 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., 

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 April 9, 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 April 4, 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 23, 2007. 

By the Board, Joseph H. Dettmar, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–5784 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

International Affairs; Survey of Foreign 

Ownership of U.S. Securities 

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, 

Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of reporting 

requirements. 

SUMMARY: By this Notice, the 

Department of the Treasury is informing 

the public that it is conducting a 

mandatory survey of foreign ownership 

of U.S. securities as of June 30, 2007. 

This Notice constitutes legal notification 

to all United States persons (defined 

below) who meet the reporting 

requirements set forth in this Notice that 

they must respond to, and comply with, 

this survey. Additional copies of the 

reporting forms SHLA (2007) and 

instructions may be printed from the 

Internet at: http://www.treas.gov/tic/ 

forms-sh.html. 

Definition: A U.S. person is any 

individual, branch, partnership, 

associated group, association, estate, 

trust, corporation, or other organization 

(whether or not organized under the 

laws of any State), and any government 

(including a foreign government, the 

United States Government, a state, 

provincial, or local government, and any 

agency, corporation, financial 

institution, or other entity or 

instrumentality thereof, including a 

government-sponsored agency), who 

resides in the United States or is subject 

to the jurisdiction of the United States. 

Who Must Report: The panel for this 

survey is based upon the level of foreign 

holdings of U.S. securities reported on 

the June 2004 benchmark survey of 

foreign holdings of U.S. securities, and 

will consist mostly of the largest 

reporters on that survey. Entities 


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