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1The Line previously was part of a larger BNSF 

line that was the subject of a notice of exemption 

filed in BNSF Ry.—Aban. Exemption—in Oklahoma 

County, Okla., AB 6 (Sub–No. 430X) (STB served 

Oct. 13, 2005). By a decision served on June 5, 

2008, the Board granted a petition to reopen the 

proceeding and reject BNSF’s notice of exemption 

as void ab initio on the grounds that BNSF had 

provided service on a portion of the line to the east 

of the Line here during the two-year period prior 

to the filing of that notice. 

2The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental 

Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation) 

cannot be made before the exemption’s effective 

date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. 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. 

3Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

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

1002.2(f)(25). 

request for a public use condition under 

49 CFR 1152.28 or for trail use/rail 

banking under 49 CFR 1152.29 will be 

due no later than April 30, 2012. Each 

trail use request must be accompanied 

by a $250 filing fee. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(27). 

All filings in response to this notice 

must refer to Docket No. AB 1096X, and 

must be sent to: (1) Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001; and (2) 

Charles A. Spitulnik, Kaplan Kirsch & 

Rockwell, 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW., 

Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036. 

Replies to the petition are due on or 

before April 30, 2012. 

Persons seeking further information 

concerning abandonment procedures 

may contact the Board’s Office of Public 

Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and 

Compliance at (202) 245–0238 or refer 

to the full abandonment or 

discontinuance regulations at 49 CFR 

part 1152. Questions concerning 

environmental issues may be directed to 

the Board’s Office of Environmental 

Analysis (OEA) at (202) 245–0305. 

Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339. 

An environmental assessment (EA) (or 

environmental impact statement (EIS), if 

necessary) prepared by OEA will be 

served upon all parties of record and 

upon any agencies or other persons who 

commented during its preparation. 

Other interested persons may contact 

OEA to obtain a copy of the EA (or EIS). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: April 2, 2012. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Raina S. White, 

Clearance Clerk. 

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BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. AB 6 (Sub-No. 480X)] 

BNSF Railway Company— 

Abandonment Exemption—in 

Oklahoma County, OK 

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) has 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR pt. 1152 subpart F— 

Exempt Abandonments to abandon 1.22 

miles of rail line extending between 

milepost 541.69 and milepost 542.91 in 

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, 

Okla. (the Line).1 The Line traverses 

United States Postal Service Zip Codes 

73108 and 73109 and includes no 

stations. 

BNSF has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the Line for at 

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic 

can be rerouted over other lines; (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(c) 

(environmental report), 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 Railroad— 

Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch 

Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & 

Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 

91 (1979). To address whether this 

condition adequately protects affected 

employees, a petition for partial 

revocation under 49 USC 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 9, 

2012, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do 

not involve environmental issues,2

formal expressions of intent to file an 

OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),3 and 

trail use/rail banking requests under 49 

CFR 1152.29 must be filed by April 19, 

2012. Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by April 30, 2012, 

with the 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, Of Counsel, 

Ball Janik LLP, Suite 225, 655 Fifteenth 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20005. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

BNSF has filed a combined 

environmental and historic report that 

addresses the effects, if any, of the 

abandonment on the environment and 

historic resources. OEA will issue an 

environmental assessment (EA) by April 

13, 2012. Interested persons may obtain 

a copy of the EA by writing to OEA 

(Room 1100, Surface Transportation 

Board, Washington, DC 20423–0001) or 

by calling OEA at (202) 245–0305. 

Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–800– 

877–8339. Comments on environmental 

and historic preservation matters must 

be filed within 15 days 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), BNSF 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 

BNSF’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by April 9, 2013, and 

there are no legal or regulatory barriers 

to consummation, the authority to 

abandon will automatically expire. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at www.stb.

dot.gov. 

Decided: April 3, 2012. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Raina S. White, 

Clearance Clerk, 

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BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Unblocking of Blocked Persons 

Pursuant to Executive Order 13067 and 

Executive Order 13412 

SUB-AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control. 

ACTION: Notice. 


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SUMMARY: The Department of Treasury’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the names of 

two entities whose property and 

interests in property have been 

unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 

13067 of November 3, 1997, ‘‘Blocking 

Sudanese Government Property and 

Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan,’’ 

and Executive Order 13412 of October 

13, 2006, ‘‘Blocking Property of and 

Prohibiting Transactions With the 

Government of Sudan.’’ 

DATES: The unblocking and removal 

from the list of Specially Designated 

Nationals and Blocked Persons (‘‘SDN 

List’’) of the entities identified in this 

notice whose property and interests in 

property were blocked pursuant to 

Executive Order 13067 of November 3, 

1997, and Executive Order 13412 of 

October 13, 2006, is effective February 

1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Sanctions 

Compliance and Evaluation, Office of 

Foreign Assets Control, Department of 

the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW. (Treasury Annex), Washington, DC 

20220, Tel.: (202) 622–2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available from OFAC’s Web site 

(www.treas.gov/ofac). Certain general 

information pertaining to OFAC’s 

sanctions programs also is available via 

facsimile through a 24-hour fax-ondemand service, tel.: (202) 622–0077. 

Background 

On November 3, 1997 the President, 

invoking the authority of, inter alia, the 

International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) 

(‘‘IEEPA’’), issued Executive Order 

13067 (‘‘E.O. 13067’’). In E.O. 13067, the 

President declared a national emergency 

to deal with the Government of Sudan’s 

continued support of international 

terrorism; ongoing efforts to destabilize 

neighboring governments; and the 

prevalence there of human rights 

violations, including slavery and the 

denial of religious freedom. Section 1 of 

E.O. 13067 blocks, with certain 

exceptions, all property and interests in 

property of the Government of Sudan 

that are in the United States, that 

hereafter come within the United States, 

or that hereafter come within the 

possession or control of United States 

persons, including their overseas 

branches. Section 4 defines the term 

‘‘Government of Sudan’’ to include the 

Government of Sudan, its agencies, 

instrumentalities and controlled 

entities, and the Central Bank of Sudan. 

On October 13, 2006, the President, 

invoking the authority of, inter alia, 

IEEPA, issued Executive Order 13412 

(‘‘E.O. 13412’’), in order to take 

additional steps with respect to the 

national emergency declared in E.O. 

13067. Section 1 of E.O. 13412 restates 

the blocking of the Government of 

Sudan imposed by E.O. 13067. Section 

6 excludes the regional government of 

Southern Sudan from the definition of 

the Government of Sudan. 

On February 1, 2012, OFAC removed 

the entities listed below, whose 

property and interests in property were 

blocked pursuant to E.O. 13067 and E.O. 

13412 from the SDN List: 

1. PEOPLE’S CO-OPERATIVE BANK, P.O. 

Box 922, Khartoum, Sudan; [SUDAN] 

2. UNITY BANK, Bariman Avenue, P.O. 

Box 408, Khartoum, Sudan; Now part of 

BANK OF KHARTOUM GROUP; [SUDAN] 

Dated: January 31, 2012. 

Adam J. Szubin, 

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control. 

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BILLING CODE 4810–AL–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Open Meeting of the Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel Bankruptcy 

Compliance Project Committee 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: An open meeting of the 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Bankruptcy 

Compliance Project Committee will be 

conducted. The Taxpayer Advocacy 

Panel is soliciting public comments, 

ideas, and suggestions on improving 

customer service at the Internal Revenue 

Service. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Tuesday, May 8, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Timothy Shepard at 1–888–912–1227 or 

206–220–6095. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given pursuant to Section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988) 

that a meeting of the Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel Bankruptcy 

Compliance Project Committee will be 

held Tuesday, May 08, 2012, at 9 a.m. 

Pacific Time via telephone conference. 

The public is invited to make oral 

comments or submit written statements 

for consideration. Due to limited 

conference lines, notification of intent 

to participate must be made with 

Timothy Shepard. For more information 

please contact Mr. Shepard at 1–888– 

912–1227 or 206–220–6095, or write 

TAP Office, 915 2nd Avenue, MS W– 

406, Seattle, WA 98174, or contact us at 

the Web site: http://www.improveirs.org. 

The agenda will include various IRS 

Issues. 

Dated: March 28, 2012. 

Louis Morizio, 

Acting Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8411 Filed 4–6–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Open Meeting of the Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel Return Processing 

Delays Project Committee 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of Meeting. 

SUMMARY: An open meeting of the 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Return 

Processing Delays Project Committee 

will be conducted. The Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel is soliciting public 

comments, ideas, and suggestions on 

improving customer service at the 

Internal Revenue Service. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Thursday, May 31, 2012 and Friday, 

June 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Janice Spinks at 1–888–912–1227 or 

206–220–6098. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given pursuant to Section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988) 

that an open meeting of the Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel Return Processing 

Delays Project Committee will be held 

Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 8 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. and Friday, June 1st from 8 

a.m. to 12:00 noon Pacific Time at TAP 

Office, 915 2nd Avenue, MS W–406, 

Seattle, WA 98174. The public is invited 

to make oral comments or submit 

written statements for consideration. 

Notifications of intent to participate 

must be made with Ms. Janice Spinks. 

For more information please contact Ms. 

Spinks at 1–888–912–1227 or 206–220– 

6098, or write TAP Office, 915 2nd 

Avenue, MS W–406, Seattle, WA 98174 

or post comments to the Web site: 

http://www.improveirs.org. 

The agenda will include various IRS 

issues. 


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