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1BB states that NSR formerly leased the North 

Beach and Diamond Springs Line to another carrier, 

Eastern Shore Railroad. According to BB, no 

discontinuance authority is required as this is a 

change in operators. 

2See Cassatt Mgmt. LLC—Lease & Operation 

Exemption—Canonie Atlantic Co. ex rel. 

Accomack-Northampton Transp. Dist. Comm’n, FD 

34818 (STB served Feb. 6, 2006). 

3BB states that the circumstances here are related 

to those underlying the transaction in Delmarva 

Central Railroad—Change in Operator Exemption— 

Cassatt Management, LLC D/B/A Bay Coast 

Railroad, FD 36196 (STB served Jun. 8, 2018). 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36202] 

Buckingham Branch Railroad 

Company—Change in Operators 

Exemption—Cassatt Management, LLC 

d/b/a Bay Coast Railroad 

Buckingham Branch Railroad 

Company (BB), a Class III rail carrier, 

has filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR 1150.41 to assume 

operations over the following rail lines: 

(1) A 2.6-mile rail line, owned by 

Canonie Atlantic Co. (CAC) on behalf of 

the Accomack-Northampton 

Transportation District Commission 

(ANTDC), extending between milepost 

95.0 at Little Creek (Virginia Beach), 

Va., and milepost 97.6 at Camden 

Heights (Norfolk), Va. (the Little Creek 

Line); and (2) a 4.2-mile rail line owned 

by Norfolk Southern Railway Company 

(NSR), extending between milepost SN 

6.7 at Diamond Springs (Virginia 

Beach), Va., and milepost SN 2.5 at 

Coleman Place (Norfolk), Va. (the North 

Beach and Diamond Springs Line) 1

(collectively, the Lines). According to 

BB, the Lines represent two branches 

forming a ‘‘Y’’ with an overlapping 

convergence into the stem at Camden 

Heights, with milepost SN 2.5 at 

Coleman Place located west of the 

convergence. BB states that it will also 

utilize an additional four miles of 

trackage rights to facilitate interchange 

with NSR at Portlock Yard. 

BB states that it will provide rail 

common carrier service to shippers on 

the Lines and that its operations will 

replace those of Cassatt Management, 

LLC d/b/a Bay Coast Railroad (BCR), the 

current operator.2 BB further states that 

BCR seeks to imminently cease 

operations over the Lines and does not 

object to the proposed change in 

operators. According to BB, BCR’s 

ability to continue operation of the 

Lines has recently become uncertain, 

and recent personnel departures at BCR 

have prompted BCR to press for 

terminating its Norfolk-area operations 

as soon as possible.3 BB states it is 

negotiating a lease and operation 

agreement with CAC for the Little Creek 

Line and a lease agreement with NSR to 

operate over the North Beach and 

Diamond Springs Line. 

BB states that the proposed operation 

of the Lines does not involve any 

provision or agreement that would limit 

future interchange with a third-party 

connecting carrier. BB also certifies that 

its projected annual revenues from 

freight operations will not result in the 

creation of a Class II or Class I rail 

carrier. 

Under 49 CFR 1150.42(b), a change in 

operators requires that notice be given 

to shippers. BB states that it has 

provided notice of the proposed change 

in operator to the shippers on the Lines. 

BB certifies that on June 13, 2018, it 

posted notice of the transaction at the 

workplace of BCR employees as 

required under 49 CFR 1150.42(e). BB 

states that BCR employees are not 

represented by any labor union. 

Concurrently with its notice of 

exemption, BB filed a petition for partial 

waiver of the 60-day advance labor 

notice requirement under 49 CFR 

1150.42(e) to allow the transaction to be 

consummated on August 1, 2018. The 

petition for waiver will be addressed in 

a separate decision, which will establish 

the earliest date this transaction may be 

consummated. 

If the verified 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 effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions for stay must 

be filed no later than July 25, 2018. 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

36202, must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on BB’s representative, Robert 

A. Wimbish, Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 29 

North Wacker Drive, Suite 920, Chicago, 

IL 60606–2832. 

According to BB, this action is 

excluded from environmental review 

under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and from 

historic preservation reporting 

requirements under 49 CFR 

1105.8(b)(1). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our website at 

WWW.STB.GOV. 

Decided: July 13, 2018. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Kenyatta Clay, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15331 Filed 7–17–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Fiscal Year 2019 Tariff-Rate Quota 

Allocations for Raw Cane Sugar, 

Refined and Specialty Sugar and 

Sugar-Containing Products 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the United 

States Trade Representative (USTR) is 

providing notice of country-by-country 

allocations of the Fiscal Year 2019 (Oct. 

1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019) in-quota 

quantity of the tariff-rate quotas for 

imported raw cane sugar. 

DATES: This notice is applicable on July 

18, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dylan Daniels, Office of Agricultural 

Affairs, at 202–395–6095. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Additional U.S. Note 5 to Chapter 17 

of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 

the United States (HTS), the United 

States maintains tariff-rate quotas 

(TRQs) for imports of raw cane sugar. 

Section 404(d)(3) of the Uruguay Round 

Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3601(d)(3)) 

authorizes the President to allocate the 

in-quota quantity of a TRQ for any 

agricultural product among supplying 

countries or customs areas. The 

President delegated this authority to the 

U.S. Trade Representative under 

Presidential Proclamation 6763 (60 FR 

1007). 

On June 29, 2018, the Secretary of 

Agriculture (Secretary) announced the 

sugar program provisions for Fiscal Year 

2019. The Secretary announced an inquota quantity of the TRQ for raw cane 

sugar for Fiscal Year 2019 of 1,117,195 

metric tons (conversion factor: 1 metric 

ton = 1.10231125 short tons) raw value 

(MTRV), which is the minimum amount 

to which the United States is committed 

under the World Trade Organization 

(WTO) Uruguay Round Agreements. 

USTR is allocating this quantity 

(1,117,195 MTRV) to the following 

countries in the amounts specified 

below: 

Country 

Fiscal year 

2019 raw 

cane sugar 

allocations 

(MTRV) 

Argentina .............................. 45,281 

Australia ................................ 87,402 

Barbados .............................. 7,371 

Belize .................................... 11,584 

Bolivia ................................... 8,424 

Brazil ..................................... 152,691 

Colombia ............................... 25,273 


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Country 

Fiscal year 

2019 raw 

cane sugar 

allocations 

(MTRV) 

Congo ................................... 7,258 

Costa Rica ............................ 15,796 

Cote d’Ivoire ......................... 7,258 

Dominican Republic .............. 185,335 

Ecuador ................................ 11,584 

El Salvador ........................... 27,379 

Fiji ......................................... 9,477 

Gabon ................................... 7,258 

Guatemala ............................ 50,546 

Guyana ................................. 12,636 

Haiti ....................................... 7,258 

Honduras .............................. 10,530 

India ...................................... 8,424 

Jamaica ................................ 11,584 

Madagascar .......................... 7,258 

Malawi ................................... 10,530 

Mauritius ............................... 12,636 

Mexico .................................. 7,258 

Mozambique ......................... 13,690 

Nicaragua ............................. 22,114 

Panama ................................ 30,538 

Papua New Guinea .............. 7,258 

Paraguay .............................. 7,258 

Peru ...................................... 43,175 

Philippines ............................ 142,160 

South Africa .......................... 24,220 

St. Kitts & Nevis ................... 7,258 

Swaziland ............................. 16,849 

Taiwan .................................. 12,636 

Thailand ................................ 14,743 

Trinidad & Tobago ................ 7,371 

Uruguay ................................ 7,258 

Zimbabwe ............................. 12,636 

These allocations are based on the 

countries’ historical shipments to the 

United States. The allocations of the inquota quantities of the raw cane sugar 

TRQ to countries that are net importers 

of sugar are conditioned on receipt of 

the appropriate verifications of origin, 

and certificates for quota eligibility must 

accompany imports from any country 

for which an allocation has been 

provided. Raw cane sugar for Fiscal 

Year 2019 TRQs may enter the United 

States as of October 1, 2018. 

Robert Lighthizer, 

United States Trade Representative. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15266 Filed 7–17–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Environmental Impact Statement; Hays 

County, Texas 

AGENCY: Texas Department of 

Transportation (TxDOT), Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA), 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Federal notice of intent to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS). 

SUMMARY: FHWA, on behalf of TxDOT, 

is issuing this notice to advise the 

public that an EIS will be prepared for 

a proposed transportation project to 

construct a new location four lane 

roadway in and near the City of Kyle in 

Hays County. The roadway would start 

west of Kyle and run east to Interstate 

35 (I–35), and may follow portions of 

existing Ranch-to-Market (RM) 150, 

from west of Arroyo Ranch Road, 

running east to I–35. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carlos Swonke, Division Director, 

TxDOT Environmental Affairs Division, 

125 East 11th Street, Austin, Texas 

78701; Phone (512) 416–2734; email: 

carlos.swonke@txdot.gov. TxDOT’s 

normal business hours are 8:00 a.m.– 

5:00 p.m. (central time), Monday 

through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

environmental review, consultation, and 

other actions required by applicable 

Federal environmental laws for this 

project are being, or have been, carriedout by TxDOT pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327 

and a Memorandum of Understanding 

dated December 16, 2014, and executed 

by FHWA and TxDOT. 

TxDOT will prepare an EIS for the 

proposed construction of a new location 

four lane roadway in and near the City 

of Kyle in Hays County. The roadway 

would start west of Kyle and run east to 

I–35, and may follow portions of 

existing RM 150, from west of Arroyo 

Ranch Road, running east to I–35. The 

proposed project is included in the 

Capital Area Metropolitan Planning 

Organization (CAMPO) 2040 

Metropolitan Transportation Plan, 2015, 

as a new location four-lane roadway that 

may follow portions of the existing RM 

150 roadway. The proposed project is 

approximately 6 miles long. 

Proposed improvements to Ranch to 

Market (RM) 150 are needed because the 

existing two-lane facility is inadequate 

to handle existing and future traffic 

volumes between I–35 and RM 150 west 

of Kyle, resulting in congestion and 

safety concerns. In addition, the overall 

transportation network does not provide 

sufficient linkage to I–35 to handle 

existing and future traffic volumes in 

this growing area of Hays County. The 

current two-lane facility does not meet 

current design standards, does not meet 

the Level of Service to meet increasing 

travel demand and does not provide a 

safe and adequate crossing of the Union 

Pacific Railroad. In addition, regional 

population growth continues to increase 

demand for additional capacity and 

access in this corridor and the region. 

The purpose of the proposed project is 

to relieve congestion and improve safety 

along the existing RM 150 corridor 

between RM 150 west of Kyle and I–35. 

The EIS will develop and evaluate 

alternatives intended to satisfy the 

identified purpose and need. The 

alternatives will include a range of build 

alternatives and a no-build alternative 

within the study corridor, which is 

generally bounded to the north by RM 

150 south of Indian Hills Trail, to the 

east by the existing RM 150 east of 

Arroyo Ranch Road and through the city 

of Kyle to I–35, to the south by the 

intersection of Yarrington Rd. and I–35, 

and to the west by the Blanco River. 

The roadway build alternatives may 

include limited access and non-limited 

access (arterial) design. The EIS will 

evaluate potential impacts from 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project, including, but not 

limited to, the following: Transportation 

impacts, air quality and noise impacts; 

water quality impacts including storm 

water runoff, water recharge zone 

impacts; impacts to waters of the United 

States, including wetlands; impacts to 

floodplains; impacts to historic and 

archeological resources; socio-economic 

impacts including environmental justice 

and limited English proficiency 

populations; impacts to land use, 

vegetation and wildlife, including 

threatened and endangered species and 

habitat impacts; impacts to or potential 

displacement of residents and 

businesses; and impacts to aesthetic and 

visual resources. TxDOT will issue a 

single Final EIS and Record of Decision 

document pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 

139(n)(2), unless TxDOT determines 

statutory criteria or practicability 

considerations preclude issuance of the 

combined document. 

Anticipated state and federal permits, 

pending selection of alternatives and 

field surveys, may include, but are not 

limited to, the following: United States 

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) 

Section 404 permit, Texas Commission 

on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) 

Section 401 Water Quality Certification; 

TCEQ Texas Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (TPDES) permit, 

Advisory Council for Historic 

Preservation (ACHP) Section 106 

(National Historic Preservation Act) 

approval, and United States Fish and 

Wildlife Service Section 7 (Endangered 

Species Act) permits and approval. 

Public involvement is a critical 

component of the project development 

process and will continue throughout 

the development of the EIS. A draft 

project coordination plan has been 

developed in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 


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