Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 200 / Friday, October 17, 1997 / Notices 54155

1 IANR states that, although the official UP

milepost designations suggest a track length of 1.4

miles, IANR personnel have measured the track

length as 8,692 feet, or approximately 1.6 miles.

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 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 offer of financial assistance must be

accompanied by the filing fee, which currently is

set at $900. See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).

Ridge, a distance of 14.23 miles in

Fannin County; (ii) from Valuation

Station 21726+83 (milepost 396.7), at

Blue Ridge, to Valuation Station

22154+46 (milepost 404.8), at White

Path, a distance of 8.1 miles in Fannin

and Gilmer Counties; and (iii) from

Valuation Station 21556+55 (milepost

393.47) on the north leg of the wye

including the south leg of the wye, at

Murphy Junction, to Valuation Station

21706+72 (milepost 396.32), in Mineral

Bluff, a distance of 2.85 miles in Fannin

County.

The transaction is expected to be

consummated on or after the effective

date of the exemption. Because the

notice of exemption was filed on

October 3, 1997, the transaction can be

consummated no sooner than October

10, 1997.

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 does not

automatically stay the transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 33489, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925

K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423–

0001. In addition, a copy of each

pleading must be served on Kevin R.

Armbruster, Esq., Cushing, Morris,

Armbruster & Jones, LLP, Suite 2110,

International Tower, 229 Peachtree

Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30303.

Decided: October 8, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–27603 Filed 10–16–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 33487]

Iowa Northern Railway Company—

Acquisition and Operation

Exemption—Union Pacific Railroad

Company

Iowa Northern Railway Company

(IANR), a Class III rail carrier, has filed

a verified notice of exemption under 49

CFR 1150.41 to acquire and operate an

8,692-foot portion of rail line, known as

the Bristow Subdivision, owned by

Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP),

between the crossing of the UP and

IANR lines at MP 288.8 and the end of

the Bristow Subdivision at

approximately MP 287.4 (end of track)

to the east of that crossing in Clarksville,

IA.1 The transaction was expected to be

consummated as soon as practicable

after October 9, 1997, the effective date

of the exemption.

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. 33487, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Unit,1925

K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20423–

0001 and served on: David A. Hirsh,

Harkins Cunningham, 1300 19th Street,

N.W., Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036.

Decided: October 9, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–27602 Filed 10–16–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Docket No. AB–534 (Sub-No. 1X)]

Lake State Railway Company—

Abandonment Exemption—in Alpena

County, MI

Lake State Railway Company (Lake

State) has filed a notice of exemption

under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt

Abandonments to abandon its 8-mile

line of railroad between milepost 0.0

near Alpena, and milepost 8.0 near

Hillman, in Alpena County, MI. The

line traverses United States Postal

Service Zip Code 49707.

Lake State has certified that: (1) No

local traffic has moved over the line for

at least 2 years; (2) there has been no

overhead traffic moving over the line

during this time; (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 (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 1105.7

(environmental reports), 49 CFR 1105.8

(historic reports), 49 CFR 1105.11

(transmittal letter), 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

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 November 16, 1997, 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 October 27,

1997. Petitions to reopen or requests for

public use conditions under 49 CFR

1152.28 must be filed by November 6,

1997, with: Surface Transportation

Board, Office of the Secretary, Case

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

Washington, DC 20423.

A copy of any petition filed with the

Board should be sent to applicant’s

representative: Kelvin J. Dowd, Esq.,

Slover & Loftus, 1224 Seventeenth

Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

If the verified notice contains false or

misleading information, the exemption

is void ab initio.

Lake State has filed an environmental

report which addresses the

abandonment’s effects, if any, on the

environment and historic resources. The

Section of Environmental Analysis

(SEA) will issue an environmental

assessment (EA) by October 22, 1997.

Interested persons may obtain a copy of

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 500,

Surface Transportation Board,

Washington, DC 20423) or by calling

SEA, at (202) 565–1545. Comments on

environmental and historic preservation

matters must be filed within 15 days
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1A copy of this list may be obtained by

contacting Ms. Carol B. Epstein, Assistant General

Counsel, at 202/619–6981, and the address is Room

700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 Fourth Street,

S.W., Washington, D.C. 20547–0001.

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), Lake State 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 Lake State’s filing of a notice

of consummation by October 17, 1998,

and there are no legal or regulatory

barriers to consummation, the authority

to abandon will automatically expire.

Decided: October 9, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–27600 Filed 10–16–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Departmental Office; Debt

Management Advisory Committee;

Meeting

The notice of the public meeting of

the Treasury Borrowing Advisory

Committee of The Bond Market

Association that was announced in the

Federal Register of October 7, 1997 (62

FR 52378) is hereby amended. The time

of the meeting has been changed from

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time

on October 28, 1997. The notification

that was published on October 1

remains unchanged in all other respects.

October 10, 1997.

Gary Gensler,

Assistant Secretary (Financial Markets).

[FR Doc. 97–27543 Filed 10–16–97; 8:45 am]

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UNITED STATES INFORMATION

AGENCY

Culturally Significant Objects Imported

for Exhibition

Determinations

Notice is hereby given of the

following determinations: Pursuant to

the authority vested in me by the Act of

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985, 22 U.S.C.

2459), Executive Order 12047 of March

27, 1978) 43 FR 13359, March 29, 1978),

and Delegation Order No. 85–5 of June

27, 1985 (50 FR 27393, July 2, 1985), I

hereby determine that the objects to be

included in the exhibit, ‘‘Flowers

Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal

Era’’ (See list 1), imported from abroad

for the temporary exhibition without

profit within the United States are of

cultural significance. These objects are

imported pursuant to a loan agreement

with the foreign lenders. I also

determine that the exhibition or display

of the listed exhibit objects at The

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,

New York, from on or about November

17, 1997, to on or about March 1, 1998,

is in the national interest. Public notice

of these determinations is ordered to be

published in the Federal Register.

Dated: October 10, 1997.

Les Jin,

General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 97–27591 Filed 10–16–97; 8:45 am]

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