52370 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 194 / Tuesday, October 7, 1997 / Notices

damages may be filed until the close of

business on November 22, 1997, and for

loans for economic injury until the close

of business on June 23, 1998 at the

address listed below or other locally

announced locations: U.S. Small

Business Administration, Disaster Area

1 Office, 360 Rainbow Blvd. South, 3rd

Fl., Niagara Falls, NY 14303.

In addition, applications for economic

injury loans from small businesses

located in the contiguous counties of

Burlington, Camden, Cape May,

Cumberland, Gloucester, and Ocean in

the State of New Jersey may be filed

until the specified date at the above

location.

The interest rates are:

Percent

Physical Damage:

Homeowners with credit available elsewhere ........................ 8.000

Homeowners without credit available elsewhere ........................ 4.000

Businesses with credit available

elsewhere ................................ 8.000

Businesses and non-profit organizations without credit available elsewhere ........................ 4.000

Others (including non-profit organizations) with credit available

elsewhere ................................ 7.250

For Economic Injury

Businesses and small agricultural

cooperatives without credit

available elsewhere ................. 4.000

The numbers assigned to this disaster

are 298206 for physical damage and

961100 for economic injury.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 59002 and 59008)

Dated: September 26, 1997.

Bernard Kulik,

Associate Administrator for Disaster

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 97–26513 Filed 10–6–97; 8:45 am]

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Region III—National Advisory Council;

Public Meeting

The Small Business Administration—

Region III—Washington National

Advisory Council, located in the

geographical area of Washington, DC,

will hold a public meeting from 8:00 am

to 5:00 pm, on Thursday, October 23,

1997, and from 8:00 am until 11:00 am,

on Friday, October 24, at the Scottsdale

Plaza Resort, 7200 North Scottsdale

Road, Scottsdale, AZ, to discuss such

business as may be presented by

members, the staff of the U.S. Small

Business Administration, and others

attending. For further information, write

or call Toi Tolson, at the U.S. Small

Business Administration, 409 3rd Street,

S.W., Washington, DC 20416, telephone

(202) 205–7648.

Dated: October 1, 1997.

Eugene Carlson,

Associate Administrator, Office of

Communications & Public Liaisons.

[FR Doc. 97–26514 Filed 10–6–97; 8:45 am]

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

North Florida District Office; Name

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business

Administration.

ACTION: Notice of name change for two

District Offices.

SUMMMARY: The U.S. Small Business

Administration (SBA) has changed the

names of its two District Offices in

Florida.

Old name New name

Jacksonville District

Office, 7825

Baymeadows Way,

Suite 100–B, Jacksonville, FL 32256–

7504.

North Florida District

Office, 7825

Baymeadows Way,

Suite 100–B, Jacksonville, FL 32256–

7504

Miami District Office,

1320 South Dixie

Highway, Coral Gables, FL 33146–

2911.

South Florida District

Office, 1320 South

Dixie Highway,

Coral Gables, FL

33146–2911

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 19, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bradley Douglas, 202–205–6808.

Dated: September 10, 1997.

Bradley Douglas,

Associate Administrator for The Office of

Field Operations.

[FR Doc. 97–26515 Filed 10–6–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

Notice of Petitions for Waivers of

Compliance and Notice of Technical

Conference

In accordance with Part 211 of Title

49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR),

notice is hereby given that the Federal

Railroad Administration (FRA) received

requests for waivers of compliance with

certain requirements of its safety

standards. The individual petitions are

described below, including the parties

seeking relief, the regulatory provisions

involved, the nature of the relief being

requested, and the petitioners’

arguments in favor of relief.

The American Short Line Railroad

Association (Waiver Petition Docket

Number PB–97–12)

The American Short Line Railroad

Association (ASLRA) seeks a permanent

waiver of compliance from certain

provisions of the Railroad Power Brake

and Drawbars regulations, 49 CFR

Section 232.23, concerning operations

requiring the use of two-way EOT

devices.

On January 2, 1997, FRA published

the Final Rule for Two-Way End-ofTrain Devices with an effective date of

July 1, 1997. On March 4, 1997, ASLRA

filed a petition for reconsideration

seeking a delay until December 1, 1997,

as the date for the rule to become

effective on Class II and Class III

railroads, and seeking elimination of the

tonnage limitation contained in the

rule’s definition of local and work

trains. On May 29, 1997, FRA granted

relief on the effective date for railroads

that reported two million or fewer manhours in 1995, which includes most, if

not all, Class II and Class III railroads.

FRA declined to eliminate the tonnage

limitation from the rule’s definition of

local and work trains.

ASLRA feels there is still a serious

problem in the rulemaking that is a

hardship for small railroads in

particular and has no significant safety

value in the context of what two-way

EOT’s are designed to accomplish

which is improving the safe movement

of heavy trains over heavy grades.

The Final Rule requires that a train be

equipped with an operable two-way

EOT if: (1) The train is operating with

greater than 4,000 trailing tons over a

section of track with an average grade of

one percent or greater over a distance of

three continuous miles; or (2) the train

is operating with 4,000 trailing tons or

less over a section of track with an

average grade of two percent or greater

over a distance of two continuous miles.

The Final Rule defines a train as ‘‘one

or more locomotives coupled with one

or more railcars, except during

switching operations or where the

operation is that of classifying cars

within a railroad yard for the purpose of

making or breaking up trains.’’ The

literal result of the Final Rule is that a

train consist of a single locomotive

hauling as little as one car must be

equipped with an operable two-way

EOT, if such train operates over a two

percent grade for two continuous miles.

ASLRA does not believe that FRA

intended to impose such unnecessary,

impractical and costly requirements

when crafting the rule, or that