51968 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 192 / Friday, October 3, 1997 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Notice of Application for Certificates of

Public Convenience and Necessity and

Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under

Subpart Q During the Week Ending

September 26, 1997

The following Applications for

Certificates of Public Convenience and

Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier

Permits were filed under Subpart Q of

the Department of Transportation’s

Procedural Regulations (See 14 CFR

302.1701 et seq.). The due date for

Answers, Conforming Applications, or

Motions to Modify Scope are set forth

below for each application. Following

the Answer period DOT may process the

application by expedited procedures.

Such procedures may consist of the

adoption of a show-cause order, a

tentative order, or in appropriate cases

a final order without further

proceedings.

Docket Number: OST–95–258.

Date Filed: September 24, 1997.

Due Date for Answers, Conforming

Applications, or Motion to Modify

Scope: July 26, 1995.

Description: Application of Lynden

Air Cargo LLC requests that its

certificate of public convenience and

necessity be reissued eliminating the

Loken Aviation trade name.

Docket Number: OST–97–2936.

Date Filed: September 25, 1997.

Due Date for Answers, Conforming

Applications, or Motion to Modify

Scope: October 23, 1997.

Description: Application of WINAIR,

Inc., pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41102 and

Subpart Q of the Regulations, applies for

a certificate of public convenience and

necessity to authorize WINAIR to

engage in foreign charter air

transportation of persons, property and

mail.

Docket Number: OST–97–2937.

Date Filed: September 25, 1997.

Due Date for Answers, Conforming

Applications, or Motion to Modify

Scope: October 23, 1997.

Description: Application of WINAIR,

Inc., pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41102 and

Subpart Q of the Regulations, for a

certificate of public convenience and

necessity to authorize WINAIR to

engage in interstate charter air

transportation of persons, property and

mail.

Docket Number: OST–97–2941.

Date Filed: September 25, 1997.

Due Date for Answers, Conforming

Applications, or Motion to Modify

Scope: October 23, 1997.

Description: Application of Planet

Airways, Inc., pursuant to 49 U.S.C.

41102 and Subpart Q of the Regulations,

applies for a certificate of public

convenience and necessity authorizing

it to engage in Foreign Charter Air

Transportation, of persons, property and

mail.

Docket Number: OST–97–2940.

Date Filed: September 25, 1997.

Due Date for Answers, Conforming

Applications, or Motion to Modify

Scope: October 23, 1997.

Description: Application of Planet

Airways, Inc., pursuant to 49 U.S.C.

41102, and Subpart Q of the

Regulations, applies for a certificate of

public convenience and necessity

authorizing it to engage in interstate

charter air transportation of persons,

property and mail.

Paulette V. Twine,

Documentary Services.

[FR Doc. 97–26333 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Notice of Extension of Comment

Period and Additional Public Hearings

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment

period and additional public hearings.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

requirements of the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as

amended, (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C),

the FAA is preparing an Environmental

Impact Statement (EIS) for terminal

Doppler weather radar to serve John F.

Kennedy International and LaGuardia

Airports. The Draft EIS document was

distributed in August 1997. Written

requests for the Draft EIS and written

comments on the Draft EIS should be

submitted as follows: Federal Aviation

Administration, Office of the Chief

Counsel, Attention: Docket (AGC–200)

Docket No. 28365, 800 Independence

Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20591.

The comment period has been extended;

comments on the Draft EIS will be

accepted until November 21, 1997.

Additional public hearings will be held

Wednesday, November 5, 1997, and

Thursday, November 6, 1997.

DATES: The comment period is extended

until November 21, 1997. Two

additional public meetings will be held;

one on November 5, 1997, PS 114—The

Belle Harbor School, Belle Harbor, NY;

and one on November 6, 1997, PS 236—

The Mill Basin School, Brooklyn, NY.

For both meetings there will be exhibits

and sign-in at 6:30 p.m.; a brief

presentation followed by public

comments on the Draft EIS will begin at

7:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be

submitted as follows: Federal Aviation

Administration, Office of the Chief

Counsel, Attention: Docket (AGC–200)

Docket No. 28365, 800 Independence

Avenue, Washington, DC 20591. The

meeting locations are:

1. November 5, 1997, PS 114—The

Belle Harbor School, 400 Beach 135th,

Belle Harbor, NY 11694.

2. November 6, 1997, PS 236—The

Mill Basin School, 6302 Avenue U,

Brooklyn, NY 11234.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jerome D. Schwartz, Federal Aviation

Administration, Environmental

Specialist, Wind Shear Products Team,

AND–420, 800 Independence Avenue,

SW, Washington, DC 20591, telephone

(202) 267–9841.

Issued in Washington, DC on September

30, 1997.

James Link,

Deputy Leader, Integrated Product Team for

Surveillance, AND–400.

[FR Doc. 97–26326 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

Supplement to the Environmental

Impact Statement: Gibson, Daviess,

Greene, Monroe, Pike, Warrick

Counties

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this

notice to advise the public that a

Supplement to the Draft Environmental

Impact Statement for the proposed

Southwest Indiana Highway Corridor

will be prepared.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Douglas N. Head, Program Operations

Engineer, Federal Highway

Administration, 575 N. Pennsylvania

Street, Room 254, Indianapolis, Indiana

46204, Telephone: (317) 226–7487, Fax:

226–7341.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

FHWA, in cooperation with the Indiana

Department of Transportation will

prepare a Supplement to the Draft

Environmental Impact Statement for the

Southwest Indian Highway Corridor

which will connect Bloomington to

Evansville. The Draft Environmental

Impact Statement was accepted by

Federal Highway Administration on
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1Under 49 CFR 1180.4(g)(1), a trackage rights

exemption is effective 7 days after the notice is

filed. Although applicant indicated that the

proposed transaction would be consummated on

September 22, 1997, the notice was not filed until

September 17, 1997, and thus the proposed

transaction could not be consummated before the

September 24, 1997 effective date.

1 Under 49 CFR 1150.41(b), the exemption is

effective 7 days after the notice is filed. Although

applicant indicated that the proposed transaction

would be consummated on September 8, 1997, the

notice was not filed until September 8, 1997, and

thus the proposed transaction could not be

consummated before the September 15, 1997

effective date of the exemption. Counsel for East

Penn has acknowledged that September 15 was the

earliest that the transaction could be consummated.

March 27, 1996, and circulated for

comments.

Alternatives under consideration

include those already discussed in the

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

and those to be covered in the proposed

Supplement.

The Supplement will evaluate

additional highway and non-highway

economic development alternatives. The

Supplement will also discuss

environmental impacts associated with

secondary impacts of economic

development resulting form the

proposed action, and will include a

revised discussion of purpose and need.

To ensure that the full range of issues

related to the proposed action are

addressed and all significant issues

identified, comments and suggestions

are invited from all interested parties.

Comments or questions concerning this

Supplement to the Draft Environmental

Impact Statement should directed to the

FHWA at the address provided above.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program No. 20.205, Highway Research

Planning and Construction. The regulations

implementing Executive Order 12372

regarding inter-governmental consultation on

Federal programs and activities apply to the

program)

Douglas N. Head,

Program Operations Engineer, Indianapolis,

Indiana.

[FR Doc. 97–26309 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 32760 (Sub-No.

24)]

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe

Railway Company; Trackage Rights

Exemption; Union Pacific Railroad

Company and Southern Pacific

Transportation Company

The Union Pacific Railroad Company

(UP) and Southern Pacific

Transportation Company (SP) have

agreed to grant overhead trackage rights

and certain local access rights to The

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe

Railway Company as follows: (a) Over a

rail line owned by SP extending from

milepost 212.7 near Tower 105 at San

Antonio, TX; and (b) over a rail line

owned by UP extending from milepost

235.9 near Craig Junction, TX, to

milepost 259.8 near SP Junction (Tower

112) via Fratt, TX, a total distance of

approximately 25.6 miles, for the

purpose of serving CPSB’s (City Public

Service Board of San Antonio) facilities

at Elmendorf, TX. The transaction was

expected to be consummated on

September 24, 1997.1

These trackage rights are related to

conditions imposed as part of the UP/

SP merger in Union Pacific Corporation,

Union Pacific Railroad Company, and

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company—

Control and Merger—Southern Pacific

Rail Corporation, Southern Pacific

Transportation Company, St. Louis

Southwestern Railway Company, SPCSL

Corp., and The Denver and Rio Grande

Western Railroad Company, Finance

Docket No. 32760 (Decision No. 44)

(STB served Aug. 12, 1996); (Decision

No. 52) (STB served Sept. 10, 1996); and

(Decision No. 61) (STB served Nov. 20,

1996).

As a condition to this exemption, any

employees affected by the 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).

This notice is filed under 49 CFR

1180.2(d)(7). If the notice 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 transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 32760 (Sub-No. 24), must be

filed with the Surface Transportation

Board, Office of the Secretary, Case

Control Unit, 1925 K Street, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20423–0001 and served

on: Erika Z. Jones, Mayer, Brown &

Platt, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20006 and Arvid E.

Roach II, Covington & Burling, 1201

Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., P. O. Box

7566, Washington, DC 20044–7566.

Decided: September 26, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–26310 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 33456]

East Penn Railways, Inc.; Lease and

Operation Exemption; Southeastern

Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

East Penn Railways, Inc. (East Penn),

a Class III rail carrier, has filed a verified

notice of exemption under 49 CFR

1150.41 to lease and operate a total of

approximately 14.9 miles of rail line

owned by Southeastern Pennsylvania

Transportation Authority, known as the

Bethlehem Branch, which includes the

portion of the Quakertown Line

extending from MP 30.5+/¥ at Telford,

Montgomery County, PA, and MP

45.4+/¥ at Quakertown, Bucks County,

PA, and the right to interchange with

Consolidated Rail Corporation south of

MP 30.5+/¥. The transaction was

expected to be consummated on or after

September 15, 1997. 1

If the notice 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 transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 33456, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925

K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423–

0001 and served on: John K. Fiorilla,

Watson, Stevens, Fiorilla & Rutter, 390

George Street, P. O. Box 1185, New

Brunswick, NJ 08903.

Decided: September 26, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–26311 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

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