46796 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 171 / Thursday, September 4, 1997 / Notices

1The ICC Termination Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–

88, 109 Stat. 803 (the Act), which was enacted on

December 29, 1995, and took effect on January 1,

1996, abolished the Interstate Commerce

Commission (ICC) and transferred certain functions

and proceedings to the Surface Transportation

Board (Board). Section 204(b)(1) of the Act

provides, in general, that proceedings pending

before the ICC on the effective date of that

legislation shall be decided under the law in effect

prior to January 1, 1996, insofar as they involve

functions retained by the Act. This notice relates to

a proceeding that was pending with the ICC prior

to January 1, 1996, and to functions that are subject

to Board jurisdiction pursuant to section 49 U.S.C.

10901. Therefore, this notice applies the law in

effect prior to the Act, and citations are to the

former section of the statute, unless otherwise

indicated.

Total Responses: 1,000.

Average Time Per Response: 3 hours

initially, 15 minutes annually thereafter.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 3,000 hours one time, 250 hours

annually thereafter.

Status: Emergency processing by

OMB.

Title: Training Program for Inspectors.

OMB Control Number: New.

Abstract: Each affected railroad

should implement a training program

for the persons performing special

inspections.

Form Number(s): N/A.

Affected Public: Businesses.

Respondent Universe: 25 railroads.

Frequency of Submission: No

submission.

Total Responses: 25.

Average Time Per Response: 441.6

hours one time, 88 hours annually

thereafter.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 11,040 hours one time, 2,200

hours annually thereafter.

Status: Emergency processing by

OMB.

Title: Provide initial briefing to

inspectors.

OMB Control Number: New.

Abstract: Each affected railroad

should brief all of its track and bridge

inspectors on the contents of this

advisory. These briefings should occur

within 14 calendar days of the date of

publication of this safety advisory in the

Federal Register.

Form Number(s): N/A.

Affected Public: Businesses.

Respondent Universe: 25 railroads.

Frequency of Submission: None.

Total Responses: 300.

Average Time Per Response: 4 hours.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 2,400 hours.

Status: Emergency processing by

OMB.

Title: Review of bridges for

vulnerability to high water, initial and

annual.

OMB Control Number: New.

Abstract: FRA believes that the

actions described in paragraphs 3, 4,

and 5 should be completed within 60

calendar days of the date of publication

of this safety advisory in the Federal

Register. During this period, each

affected railroad should complete an

initial review of its bridges for

vulnerability to high or rapidly flowing

water and provide that information to

its inspectors. More detailed reviews

should be substantially completed and

provided to inspectors during calendar

year 1998 and then maintained in a

current status.

Form Number(s): N/A.

Affected Public: Businesses.

Respondent Universe: 25 railroads.

Frequency of Submission: None.

Total Responses: 1,000.

Average Time Per Response: 2 hours

initially in 1998, 30 minutes annually

thereafter.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 2,000 hours initially in 1998, 500

hours annually thereafter.

Status: Emergency processing by

OMB.

Title: Notify FRA of bridge safety

inspection programs in place.

OMB Control Number: New.

Abstract: FRA requests a letter within

45 calendar days of the date of

publication of this safety advisory in the

Federal Register from each affected

railroad specifying the actions it has

taken and will initiate to enhance the

safety of train operations in the event of

a flood or a high or rapid water

condition. Such letters should be

addressed to the Associate

Administrator for Safety, FRA, RRS–1,

Mail Stop 25, 400 Seventh Street S.W.,

Washington, DC 20590.

Form Number(s): N/A.

Affected Public: Businesses.

Respondent Universe: 25 railroads.

Frequency of Submission: One time.

Total Responses: 25.

Average Time Per Response: 4 hours

one time.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 200 hours one time.

Status: Emergency processing by

OMB.

FRA cannot impose a penalty on

persons for violating information

collection requirements which do not

display a current OMB control number,

if required. Here, of course, FRA is not

issuing information collection

requirements and has no intention of

imposing penalties under any

provisions of this safety advisory. FRA

intends to obtain current OMB control

numbers for any information collection

items contained in this Safety Advisory.

The OMB control number, when

assigned, will be announced by separate

notice in the Federal Register.

For further information please contact

Ms. Gloria Swanson, Office of Planning

and Evaluation Division, RRS–21,

Federal Railroad Administration, 400

Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.

20590 (telephone: (202) 632–3318) or

MaryAnn Johnson, Office of Information

Technology and Productivity

Improvement, RAD–20, Federal

Railroad Administration, 400 Seventh

Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590

(telephone: (202) 632–3226). (These

telephone numbers are not toll-free.)

FRA may modify Safety Advisory 97–

1, issue additional safety advisories, or

take other appropriate necessary action

to ensure the highest level of safety on

the Nation’s railroads.

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 2,

1997.

James T. Schultz,

Associate Administrator for Safety.

[FR Doc. 97–23618 Filed 9–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board 1

[Finance Docket No. 32530]

Kansas City Southern Railway

Company—Construction and

Operation Exemption—Geismar

Industrial Area Near Gonzales and

Sorrento, Louisiana

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time for

comment period for draft environmental

impact statement (EIS).

SUMMARY: The Kansas City Southern

Railway Company (KCS) applied to the

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC),

now the Surface Transportation Board

(Board), for authority to construct and

operate an 8.62-mile rail line from the

Geismar Industrial area to its mainline

near Gonzales and Sorrento, in

Ascension Parish, Louisiana. On July

16, 1997, the Board’s Section of

Environmental Analysis (SEA) issued a

draft EIS. Consistent with Council on

Environmental Quality (CEQ)

regulations for implementing the

National Environmental Policy Act

(NEPA), SEA provided a 45-day

comment period for the public review of

the draft EIS, with comments due by

September 8, 1997.

Several parties, including the

Concerned Citizens of Ascension Parish

(CCAP), Illinois Central Railroad (IC),

members of Congress, and local

individuals have requested that the

comment period be extended an
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additional 60 days and also requested a

public hearing. KCS replied to these

petitions stating in essence that

petitioners had not provided sufficient

reason why the 45-day comment period

was inadequate.

In carefully reviewing CCAP’s

concerns, as well as those expressed by

other parties, SEA believes that the 45-

day comment period specified by CEQ

guidelines is sufficient in this case.

However, in order to allow every

opportunity for public input into the

Board’s NEPA process in this case, SEA

will accept comments to the draft EIS

for an additional 15 days past the

current due date of September 8, 1997.

Comments to the draft EIS will now be

due on September 23, 1997.

If you wish to file comments on the

draft EIS, send an original and 10 copies

to: Vernon A. Williams, Secretary,

Surface Transportation Board, Suite

700, 1925 K Street, NW, Washington,

DC 20423. Mark the lower left corner of

the envelope: Attention: Michael

Dalton, Environmental Comments,

Finance Docket No. 32530.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Dalton, Section of

Environmental Analysis, Room 528,

Surface Transportation Board, 1925 K

Street, NW, Washington, DC 20423;

phone number (202) 565–1530. TDD for

the hearing impaired: (202) 565–1695.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Because

the Board served the draft EIS on the

parties of record on July 16, 1997 and

the 45-day comment period did not

begin until the Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) published the

Notice of EIS Availability in the Federal

Register on July 25, 1997, the actual

total time between the service and

distribution of the draft EIS and the end

of the comment period is 55 days. The

additional 15-day extension results in a

70-day comment period.

In addition, CEQ guidelines and the

Board’s environmental rules do not

require a public hearing to solicit

comments on a draft EIS. SEA believes

that the submission of written

comments, which is the Board’s normal

procedure, is sufficient to develop the

record in this case. In this regard, the

Board has found that written comments

provide necessary and effective written

documentation of environmental issues

and concerns for our public record.

By the Board, Elaine K. Kaiser, Chief,

Section of Environmental Analysis.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–23462 Filed 9–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Fiscal Service

Fee Schedule for the Service to the

TREASURY DIRECT Investor of Selling

Securities Held in TREASURY DIRECT

Accounts in the Secondary Market

AGENCY: Bureau of the Public Debt,

Fiscal Service, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Department of the

Treasury is announcing the schedule of

fees to be charged to the TREASURY

DIRECT investor for the service of

selling unmatured securities held in

TREASURY DIRECT in the secondary

market. The service will be provided by

a designated Federal Reserve Bank

acting as fiscal agent of the United

States.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 4, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Koch, Director, Division of

Customer Service, Bureau of the Public

Debt, (304) 480–6748; Susan Klimas,

Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Chief

Counsel, Bureau of the Public Debt,

(304) 480–5192; Edward C. Gronseth,

Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the

Chief Counsel, Bureau of the Public

Debt, (304) 480–5192.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

September 4, 1997, the Department of

the Treasury amended the general

regulations governing book-entry

Treasury Bonds, Notes and Bills to offer

TREASURY DIRECT investors the

service of selling their unmatured

marketable securities held in their

TREASURY DIRECT accounts in the

secondary market. At the request of the

investor, the securities will be

transferred to the designated Federal

Reserve Bank, acting as fiscal agent of

the United States, to be sold on behalf

of the investor.

A transaction fee will be charged for

each security sold on behalf of the

investor. For purposes of computing the

transaction fee, a security is considered

as any amount within a TREASURY

DIRECT account which is identified by

a separate CUSIP number. Thus, if an

investor has several holdings within a

TREASURY DIRECT account of varying

amounts, but all are identified by the

same CUSIP number, and all are

transferred in one transaction, only one

transaction fee will be charged, since

the holdings are considered as one

security. If the investor has several

holdings within a TREASURY DIRECT

account, each with a different CUSIP

number, then a separate transaction fee

will be charged for each holding, as

each holding with a separate CUSIP

number is considered a separate

security. If an investor has two

TREASURY DIRECT accounts, and each

account has a security with a CUSIP

identical to the security in the other

account, then a separate transaction fee

will be charged for each security, since

each security within each account is

considered a separate security. If the

Federal Reserve Bank is unable to

complete the sale of the security, no

transaction fee will be charged. The

transaction fee will be deducted from

the settlement amount by the Federal

Reserve Bank.

Schedule of Fees for the Sale of

Securities in the Secondary Market

The fee schedule for the sale of an

unmatured security held in TREASURY

DIRECT by the designated Federal

Reserve Bank in the secondary market

on behalf of the investor is as follows:

a fee of $34 will be charged for each

security held in a TREASURY DIRECT

account which is sold in the secondary

market on behalf of the investor by the

designated Federal Reserve Bank acting

as fiscal agent of the United States.

Dated: August 29, 1997.

Richard L. Gregg,

Commissioner of the Public Debt.

[FR Doc. 97–23570 Filed 9–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4810–39–M

UNITED STATES INFORMATION

AGENCY

Training Programs for Slovakia,

Slovenia, Bosnia/Croatia/Serbia, the

Baltics and Poland

ACTION: Request for proposals.

SUMMARY: The Office of Citizen

Exchanges of the United States

Information Agency’s Bureau of

Educational and Cultural Affairs

announces an open competition for an

assistance award. Public and private

non-profit organizations meeting the

provisions described in IRS regulation

26 CFR 1.501(c) may apply to develop

training programs that link their

international exchange interests in

Central and Eastern Europe with

counterpart institutions/groups in ways

supportive of the aims of the Bureau of

Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Overall grant making authority for this

program is contained in the Mutual

Educational and Cultural Exchange Act

of 1961, Public Law 87–256, as

amended, also known as the FulbrightHays Act. The purpose of the Act is ‘‘to

enable the Government of the United

States to increase mutual understanding

between the people of the United States