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1One of BNSF’s predecessors, The Atchison, 

Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company acquired 

the trackage in 1982. See The Atchison, Topeka and 

Santa Fe Railway Company—Trackage Rights 

Exemption—Over Southern Pacific Transportation 

Company and Alameda Belt Line, Finance Docket 

No. 30073 (ICC served Dec. 28, 1982). BNSF states 

that ABL is in the process of selling the Line, as 

well as the remainder of its rail lines to the City 

of Alameda. See City of Alameda—Acquisition 

Exemption—Alameda Beltline Railroad, STB 

Finance Docket No. 34798 (STB served Jan. 11, 

2006). 

2Pursuant to 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(2), the railroad 

must file a verified notice with the Board at least 

50 days before the abandonment or discontinuance 

is to be consummated. BNSF has indicated a 

proposed consummation date of April 27, 2010, but, 

because the verified notice was filed on March 12, 

2010, counsel for BNSF has been notified that the 

earliest this transaction may be consummated is 

May 1, 2010. 

3Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which currently is set at $1,500. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

4Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and 

not an abandonment, trail use/rail banking and 

public use conditions are not appropriate. Likewise, 

no environmental or historical documentation is 

required here under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and 

1105.8(b), respectively. 

Abandonments and Discontinuances of 

Service to discontinue trackage rights 

over approximately 2.04 miles of rail 

line owned by the Alameda Beltline 

Railroad (ABL), running between 

milepost 0.00 and 2.04, in Alameda 

County, CA, (the Line).1 The Line 

traverses United States Postal Service 

Zip Code 94501. 

BNSF has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) no overhead traffic has 

moved over the line for at least 2 years; 

(3) no formal complaint filed by a user 

of BNSF 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 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 at 

49 CFR 1105.12 (newspaper 

publication), and 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) 

(notice to governmental agencies) have 

been met. 

As a condition to this exemption, any 

employee adversely affected by the 

discontinuance of service 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 1, 

2010, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration.2 Petitions to stay that 

do not involve environmental issues 

and formal expressions of intent to file 

an OFA for continued rail service under 

49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2) 3 must be filed by 

April 12, 2010.4 Petitions to reopen 

must be filed by April 21, 2010, 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: Karl Morell, Ball Janik 

LLP, 1455 F St., NW., Suite 225, 

Washington, DC 20005. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: March 29, 2010. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Kulunie L. Cannon, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–7284 Filed 3–31–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Office of Commercial Space 

Transportation; Notice of Availability 

and Request for Comment on the Draft 

Supplemental Environmental 

Assessment (Draft SEA) to the 

September 2008 Environmental 

Assessment for Space Florida Launch 

Site Operator License, Brevard County, 

FL 

AGENCY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), lead Federal 

agency and United States Air Force, 

cooperating agency 

ACTION: Notice of availability, notice of 

public comment period, and request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with National 

Environmental Policy Act regulations of 

1969, as amended (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.), Council on Environmental 

Quality NEPA implementing regulations 

(40 CFR parts 1500–1508), and FAA 

Order 1050.1E, Change 1, the FAA is 

announcing the availability of and 

requesting comments on the Draft 

Supplemental Environmental 

Assessment (SEA) to the September 

2008 Environmental Assessment for 

Space Florida Launch Site Operator 

License. The Draft SEA was prepared in 

response to an application for a Launch 

Site Operator License from Space 

Florida. Under the Proposed Action, the 

FAA would issue a Launch Site 

Operator License to Space Florida to 

operate a commercial space launch site 

at Launch Complex 36 (LC–36) and LC– 

46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 

(CCAFS) in Brevard County, Florida. 

The license would allow Space Florida 

to support vertical launches of both 

solid and liquid propellant launch 

vehicles from LC–36 and LC–46. LC–46 

is the easternmost launch complex at 

CCAFS, located at the tip of Cape 

Canaveral, and LC–36 is located in the 

east-central portion of CCAFS. The Draft 

SEA addresses the potential 

environmental impacts of issuing a 

Launch Site Operator License for the 

Proposed Action and the No Action 

Alternative. 

The FAA has posted the Draft SEA on 

the FAA Office of Commercial Space 

Transportation Web site at http:// 

www.faa.gov/about/office_org/ 

headquarters_offices/ast/. In addition, 

copies of the Draft SEA were sent to 

persons and agencies on the distribution 

list (found in Chapter 8 of the Draft 

SEA). A paper copy and a CD version 

of the Draft SEA may be reviewed for 

comment during regular business hours 

at the following locations: 

Titusville Public Library, 2121 S. 

Hopkins Ave., Titusville, FL 32780. 

Cocoa Beach Public Library, 550 North 

Brevard Ave, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931. 

Cape Canaveral Public Library, 201 Polk 

Avenue, Cape Canaveral, FL 32920. 

Merritt Island Public Library, 1195 

North Courtenay Parkway, Merritt 

Island, FL 32953. 

DATES: The public comment period for 

the Draft SEA begins with the issuance 

of this Notice of Availability. The FAA 

encourages all interested parties to 

provide comments concerning the scope 

and content of the Draft SEA. To ensure 

that all comments can be addressed in 

the Final SEA, comments on the draft 

must be received by the FAA no later 

than April 27, 2010. Comments should 

be as specific as possible and address 

the analysis of potential environmental 

impacts and the adequacy of the 

proposed action or merits of alternatives 

and the mitigation being considered. 

Reviewers should organize their 

comments to be meaningful and inform 

the FAA of their interests and concerns 

by quoting or providing specific 

references to the text of the Draft SEA. 

Matters that could have been raised 

with specificity during the comment 

period on the Draft SEA may not be 

considered if they are raised for the first 

time later in the decision process. This 

commenting procedure is intended to 

ensure that substantive comments and 

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concerns are made available to the FAA 

in a timely manner so that the FAA has 

an opportunity to address them. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit comments in 

writing to: FAA Space Florida 

Supplemental EA, c/o ICF International, 

9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031. 

Comments may also be submitted via email to SpaceFLSEA@icfi.com. For 

questions or additional information on 

the Draft SEA, please contact Mr. Daniel 

Czelusniak, FAA Environmental 

Specialist, at (202) 267–5924 or 

Daniel.Czelusniak@faa.gov. 

Additional Information 

Under the Proposed Action, the FAA 

would issue a Launch Site Operator 

License to Space Florida to operate LC– 

36 and LC–46 as a commercial space 

launch site for vertical launches of both 

solid and liquid propellant launch 

vehicles. The proposed activities at LC– 

46 remain consistent with those 

analyzed in the 2008 EA which 

analyzed the potential environmental 

impacts of the FAA issuing a Launch 

Site Operator License to Space Florida 

to operate a commercial space launch 

site at LC–46. The 2008 EA analyzed the 

operation of several types of vertical 

launch vehicles from LC–46, including 

Athena-1 and Athena-2, Minotaur, 

Taurus, Falcon 1, Alliant Techsystems 

small launch vehicles, and other 

Castor® 120-based or Minutemanderivative booster vehicles. The 

Proposed Action also includes 

construction and operation activities to 

redevelop LC–36 into commercial space 

launch site. The Draft SEA expands on 

the analysis provided in the 2008 EA to 

include an analysis of the potential 

environmental impacts of the 

construction and operation activities 

associated with the redevelopment of 

LC–36 into a commercial space launch 

site. Redeveloping LC–36 into a multiuse commercial space launch site 

involves construction of facilities to 

launch a Generic Launch Vehicle (GLV), 

which is a conceptual (or ‘‘surrogate’’) 

liquid propellant medium class launch 

vehicle with a solid propellant second 

stage, and a bipropellant third stage, 

used for the purposes of the 

environmental review. Redevelopment 

activities at LC–36 would include 

building access roads; erecting a 

security fence; reconstituting several 

existing facilities; constructing an 

elevated launch deck, associated flame 

ducts, water storage tank, and water 

deluge containment pool; and installing 

electrical, communication, and air 

systems. Redevelopment would occur in 

phases dictated by costs and schedule, 

and facility construction or 

modifications would take place only on 

previously disturbed ground. The only 

alternative to the Proposed Action is the 

No Action Alternative. Under this 

alternative the FAA would not issue a 

Launch Site Operator License to Space 

Florida for commercial launches from 

LC–36 and LC–46 at CCAFS. 

Resource areas were considered to 

provide a context for understanding and 

assessing the potential environmental 

effects of the Proposed Action, with 

attention focused on key issues. The 

resource areas considered in the Draft 

SEA included air quality; biological 

resources (terrestrial vegetation and 

wildlife, marine species, and protected 

species); compatible land use (land use, 

light emissions, visual resources, and 

coastal resources); cultural resources 

and Section 4(f) properties; hazardous 

materials, solid waste, and pollution 

prevention; noise; socioeconomic 

resources; and water resources (surface 

water, groundwater, floodplains, and 

wetlands). Potential cumulative impacts 

of the Proposed Action are also 

addressed in the Draft SEA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Daniel Czelusniak, Environmental 

Specialist, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Suite 331, Washington, 

DC 20591, by e-mail at 

Daniel.Czelusniak@faa.gov, or by phone 

at (202) 267–5924. 

Issued in Washington, DC on: March 24, 

2010. 

Michael McElligott, 

Manager, Space Systems Development 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–7129 Filed 3–31–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail 

(HSIPR) Program 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of funding availability. 

SUMMARY: On January 28, 2010, 

President Obama announced the first 

selections for the High-Speed Intercity 

Passenger Rail (HSIPR) Program. This 

notice builds on the program framework 

established by FRA in the June 23, 2009 

interim program guidance (74 FR 

29900), and details the application 

requirements and procedures for 

obtaining the remaining funds available 

under the Department of Transportation 

Appropriations Act of 2009 that have 

not yet been allocated to projects. This 

solicitation is only applicable to the 

remaining FY 2009 funds. FRA has 

concurrently issued a solicitation for 

high-speed rail planning activities 

funded under the Department of 

Transportation Appropriations Act of 

2010, and will release an additional 

solicitation in the coming months for 

the construction and corridor program 

funds provided under the FY 2010 

appropriation. 

DATES: Applications for funding under 

this solicitation are due no later than 5 

p.m. EST, May 19, 2010 and must be 

submitted via Grants.gov (see 

instructions in Section 3.1). See Section 

3 for additional information regarding 

the application process. FRA reserves 

the right to modify this deadline. 

ADDRESSES: Supporting materials that 

cannot be submitted electronically may 

be mailed or hand delivered to: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., MS–20, Room W38– 

302, Washington, DC 20590 Att’n. 

HSIPR Program. Applicants are 

encouraged to use special courier 

services to avoid shipping delays. 

Application forms are available at http: 

//www.fra.dot.gov/Pages/2243.shtml. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding this notice 

and the grants program, please contact 

the FRA HSIPR Program Manager via email at HSIPR@dot.gov, or by mail: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., MS–20, 

Washington, DC 20590 Att’n. HSIPR 

Program. 

Table of Contents 

1. Financial Assistance Description 

2. Eligibility Information 

3. Application and Submission Information 

4. Application Review Information 

5. Award Administration Information 

6. Questions and Clarifications 

Appendix 1: Additional Information on 

Eligibility 

Appendix 2: Additional Information on 

Preliminary Engineering 

Appendix 3: Additional Information on 

Award Administrations 

Appendix 4: Additional Information on 

Applicant Budgets 

Section 1: Financial Assistance 

Description 

1.1 Authority 

This financial assistance 

announcement pertains to remaining FY 

2009 appropriations for FRA’s HighSpeed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) 

Program. These funds were authorized 

and appropriated under the Department 

of Transportation Appropriations Act, 

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