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1Airlake Terminal Railway Company, LLC; 

Central Midland Railway Company; Iowa Traction 

Railway Company; Iowa Southern Railway 

Company; Piedmont & Northern Railroad LLC; and 

Chicago Junction Railway Company. 

2PGR’s exemption authorizing it to continue in 

control of SPR became effective on August 15, 2018. 

Progressive Rail—Continuance in Control 

Exemption—St. Paul & Pac. R.R., FD 36208 (STB 

served Aug. 1, 2018). 

31, 2018, the earliest this transaction 

may be consummated is September 15, 

2018 (30 days after the verified notice 

was filed). 

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 to stay must be 

filed no later than September 7, 2018 (at 

least seven days before the exemption 

becomes effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

36211, 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 CVR’s representative, 

Bradon J. Smith, Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 

29 North Wacker Drive, Suite 800, 

Chicago, IL 60606–3208. 

According to CVR, this action is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c) and from historic reporting 

under 49 CFR 1105.8(b). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our website at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: August 28, 2018. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19080 Filed 8–30–18; 8:45 am] 

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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36212] 

Progressive Rail Incorporated— 

Continuance in Control Exemption— 

Clackamas Valley Railway, LLC 

Progressive Rail Incorporated (PGR), a 

Class III rail carrier, has filed a verified 

notice of exemption under 49 CFR 

1180.2(d)(2) to continue in control of 

Clackamas Valley Railway, LLC (CVR), 

upon CVR’s becoming a Class III rail 

carrier. 

This transaction is related to a 

concurrently filed verified notice of 

exemption in Clackamas Valley 

Railway, LLC—Lease & Operation 

Exemption with Interchange 

Commitment—Union Pacific Railroad 

Co., Docket No. FD 36211. In that 

proceeding, CVR seeks an exemption 

under 49 CFR 1150.31 to lease and 

operate 1.6 miles of railroad line in 

Clackamas, Or. (the Line), owned by 

Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP). 

The earliest this transaction may be 

consummated is September 15, 2018 (30 

days after the verified notice was filed). 

PGR will continue in control of CVR 

upon CVR’s becoming a Class III rail 

carrier. According to PGR, it owns or 

operates rail lines in Minnesota, 

Wisconsin, and Illinois. PGR states that 

it controls six other Class III railroads 

that operate in Minnesota, Missouri, 

Iowa, North Carolina, Illinois, and 

California,1 and that its control of a 

seventh, the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, 

LLC (SPR), is pending.2

PGR states that: (1) The Line to be 

operated by CVR does not connect with 

any other railroads in the PGR corporate 

family; (2) the continuance in control is 

not part of a series of anticipated 

transactions that would connect the 

Line with any other railroad in the PGR 

corporate family; and (3) the transaction 

does not involve a Class I rail carrier. 

Therefore, the proposed transaction is 

exempt from the prior approval 

requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11323. See 49 

CFR 1180.2(d)(2). 

Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board 

may not use its exemption authority to 

relieve a rail carrier of its statutory 

obligation to protect the interests of its 

employees. Section 11326(c), however, 

does not provide for labor protection for 

transactions under §§ 11324 and 11325 

that involve only Class III rail carriers. 

Accordingly, the Board may not impose 

labor protective conditions here, 

because all the carriers involved are 

Class III carriers. 

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 to stay must be 

filed no later than September 7, 2018 (at 

least seven days before the exemption 

becomes effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

36212, 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 PGR’s representative, 

Bradon J. Smith, Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 

29 North Wacker Drive, Suite 800, 

Chicago, IL 60606–3208. 

According to PGR, this action is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c) and from historic reporting 

under 49 CFR 1105.8(b). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our website at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: August 28, 2018. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Tammy Lowery, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19020 Filed 8–30–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection: Operating 

Requirements: Commuter and OnDemand Operation 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to renew an information 

collection. The revision of this 

collection involves the amendment of 

regulations, which allows a certificate 

holder’s pilots to log second-incommand (SIC) time in operations that 

does not otherwise require a SIC. This 

revision also removes the burden for 

initial certification as that is already 

counted under ICR 2120–0593. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by October 1, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to the attention of the Desk Officer, 

Department of Transportation/FAA, and 

sent via electronic mail to oira_

submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to 

(202) 395–6974, or mailed to the Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th 

Street NW, Washington, DC 20503. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 


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information is necessary for FAA’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (d) 

ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. The agency 

will summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Hall at (940) 594–5913, or by 

email at: Barbara.L.Hall@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0039 

Title: Operating Requirements: 

Commuter and On-Demand Operation 

Form Numbers: N/A. 

Type of Review: This is a revision of 

an existing information collection. 

Background: The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on the following 

collection of information was published 

on June 14, 2018 (83 FR 27822). On June 

27, 2018, the FAA published the final 

rule Regulatory Relief, Aviation 

Training devices; Pilot Certification, 

Training, and Pilot Schools; and Other 

Provisions (83 FR 30232). In that rule, 

the FAA is amending § 135.99 by adding 

paragraph (c) to allow a certificate 

holder to receive approval of a secondin-command (SIC) professional 

development program (SIC PDP) via 

operations specifications (Ops Specs) to 

allow the certificate holder’s pilots to 

log SIC time in operations conducted 

under part 135 in an airplane or 

operation that does not otherwise 

require a SIC. As explained in the rule, 

the FAA believes that a comprehensive 

SIC PDP will provide opportunities for 

beneficial flight experience that may not 

otherwise exist and also provide 

increased safety in operations for those 

flights conducted in a multicrew 

environment. The FAA is establishing 

requirements in § 135.99(c) for 

certificate holders, airplanes, and 

flightcrew members during operations 

conducted under an approved SIC PDP. 

Those changes are reflected in this 

information collection. 

The FAA is also changing certain 

logging requirements to enable the 

logging of SIC time obtained under a SIC 

PDP. Those changes are reflected in a 

revision to information collection 2120– 

0021. 

Respondents: Operators who 

currently possess an FAA approved PIC 

or SIC training program could revise 

and utilize those existing programs to 

qualify their pilots seeking approval to 

log SIC time. Those operators that do 

not already possess an approved PIC/ 

SIC training program (that must include 

crew resource management training) 

would be required to submit a proposed 

new SIC training program for FAA 

approval. This would be amending an 

existing part 119 certificate. As of 

September 28, 2017 the FAA estimates 

that there were approximately 457 part 

135 operators with single engine 

turbine-powered airplanes or 

multiengine airplanes that would 

qualify or actually pursue the 

authorization to conduct a SIC 

professional development program. 

The FAA estimates that 

approximately 20 operators would be 

required to submit a newly developed 

SIC Professional Development Training 

Program for approval in the first year 

that the program is available. The FAA 

estimates that 50 operators will request 

an amendment to their existing PIC/SIC 

training program. This time burden is 

reflected in § 135.325, Training program 

and revision. 

Frequency: As needed. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Section 135.99(c) permits a 

certificate holder to seek approval of an 

SIC professional development program 

via issuance of operations specifications 

(Ops Specs) to allow the certificate 

holder’s pilots to log SIC time. Under an 

approved SIC professional development 

program, pilots may log SIC time in part 

135 operations conducted in 

multiengine airplanes and single engine 

turbine-powered airplanes that do not 

otherwise require an SIC, if those pilots: 

(1) Meet certification, training, and 

qualification requirements for pilots in 

part 135 operations, and (2) serve under 

the supervision of a part 135 PIC who 

meets certain experience requirements. 

The FAA estimates that 20 operators 

will take approximately 40 hours each 

to develop and submit an acceptable 

new SIC training program. This program 

change will result in a burden increase 

of 800 hours in the first year of 

information collection only. 

The FAA estimates that 50 operators 

will take approximately 20 hours each 

to revise and submit an acceptable SIC 

training program. This program change 

will result in a burden increase of 1,000 

hours. 

The new or revised SIC training 

program will result in a burden of 1,800 

total hours in the first year of 

information collection. 

In addition, the FAA has revised the 

burden in section 135.325 to remove the 

calculation of the burden for new 

applicants (for initial approval of 

training programs); this burden should 

not be reflected in this collection as it 

is already addressed in a previously 

approved collection (2120–0593 

Certification: Air Carriers and 

Commercial Operators—FAR Part 119). 

This change is necessary to avoid 

double-counting the burden. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The 

overall burden for part 135 was 

previously estimated at 1,154,674 hours. 

With the removal of the initial 

certification burden already accounted 

for in the part 119 statement, addition 

of the SIC training program 

development and approval burden, the 

total new annual reduced burden 

estimate is 1,314,814 hours. This is a 

reduction of 160,140 hours from the 

previous estimate. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 23, 

2018. 

Barbara Hall, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services 

Division, ASP–110. 

[FR Doc. 2018–18883 Filed 8–30–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection: Certification: 

Pilots and Flight Instructors 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to renew an information 

collection. The revision of this 

collection involves the logging of 

training time in aviation training 

devices under the provisions of 

regulations specified in the background 

of this document, and the logging of 

flight time as a second in command 

(SIC) under the provisions of regulations 

specified in the background of this 

document. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by October 1, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to the attention of the Desk Officer, 

Department of Transportation/FAA, and 

sent via electronic mail to oira_

submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to 


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