13800 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 37 / Friday, February 23, 2024 / Notices 

1WTR originally received acquisition and 

operation authority for the Line in 2002 using the 

Board’s expedited notice-of-exemption process. See 

Wilmington Terminal R.R.—Acquis. & Operation 

Exemption—N.C. Ports Ry. Comm’n, FD 34257 (STB 

served Oct. 31, 2002). The verified notice here 

states that the Original Agreement has been 

amended three other times since 2002 and that it 

does not appear Board authority was sought for 

those amendments. WTR asserts that it is not clear 

that amendments to the Original Agreement require 

Board authority because, in a proceeding related to 

Docket No. FD 34257, the Board held that WTR’s 

acquisition of a permanent and exclusive railroad 

operating easement over the Line means that WTR 

‘‘will continue to have a common carrier obligation 

until we permit that obligation to be transferred to 

[an]other carrier[ ] or the line[ ] to be abandoned.’’ 

See N.C. State Ports Auth.—Acquis. Exemption— 

N.C. Ports Ry. Comm’n, FD 34258, slip op. at 5 (STB 

served Oct. 31, 2002). WTR states that it is seeking 

authority for the Amendment out of an abundance 

of caution. 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12338] 

Notification of Meetings of the United 

States-Bahrain Subcommittee on 

Environmental Affairs and Joint Forum 

on Environmental Cooperation; 

Withdrawal 

ACTION: Notice; withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State 

published a document in the Federal 

Register of February 14, 2024, 

concerning meetings of the United 

States-Bahrain Subcommittee on 

Environmental Affairs and Joint Forum 

on Environmental Cooperation. The 

meetings have been postponed and are 

pending new dates to reschedule. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Merideth Manella, (202) 286–5271, 

ManellaM@state.gov or Tia 

Potskhverashvili, (202) 395–5414, 

tiapots@ustr.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Withdrawal. 

In the Federal Register of February 

14, 2024, we withdraw FR Doc 2024– 

03027 [Public Notice: 12330]. 

Scott B. Ticknor, 

Director, Office of Environmental Quality, 

U.S. Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03694 Filed 2–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12337] 

Regional Meeting of the Binational 

Bridges and Border Crossings Group 

in Mexico City, Mexico 

ACTION: Notice of a meeting. 

SUMMARY: Delegates from the United 

States and Mexican governments, the 

states of New Mexico and Texas, and 

the Mexican states of Chihuahua, 

Coahuila, Nuevo Laredo, and 

Tamaulipas will participate in a 

regional meeting of the U.S.-Mexico 

Binational Bridges and Border Crossings 

Group. The purpose of this meeting is 

to discuss operational matters involving 

existing and proposed international 

bridges and border crossings and their 

related infrastructure and to exchange 

technical information as well as views 

on policy. This meeting will include a 

public session. This session will allow 

proponents of proposed bridges and 

border crossings and related projects to 

make presentations to the delegations 

and members of the public. 

DATES: March 13, 2024 at 9 a.m. Public 

session from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Mexico City, Mexico. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on the meeting and 

to attend the public session, please 

contact Beney Lee, Border Affairs 

Officer, via email at leebj2@state.gov, by 

phone at 202–647–9894, or by mail at 

Office of Mexican Affairs, Room 3924, 

Department of State, 2201 C St. NW, 

Washington, DC 20520. 

Hillary C. Quam, 

Border Coordinator, Office of Mexican Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03639 Filed 2–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–29–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36753] 

Wilmington Terminal Railroad, Limited 

Partnership—Operation Exemption— 

North Carolina State Ports Authority 

Wilmington Terminal Railroad, 

Limited Partnership (WTR), a Class III 

railroad, has filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1150.42 to 

exempt from regulation WTR’s entry 

into an amendment (Amendment) with 

the North Carolina State Ports Authority 

(NCSPA) to extend a 2002 Rail 

Operating Agreement (Original 

Agreement) between WTR and NCSPA 

relating to WTR’s continued operations 

as a common carrier over approximately 

18 miles of track in three segments (the 

Line).1 The Line encompasses: (1) the 

Front Street Spur, extending from the 

east line of Third Street at CSX Rail 

Valuation Station 91+37.3 and 

extending generally in a northerly 

direction a distance of approximately 

0.66 miles to CSX Rail Valuation Station 

56+39; (2) the New River Spur, 

extending from the CSX Rail Valuation 

Station 0+00, also being Rail Valuation 

Station 86+20 on the Front Street Spur 

at the west line of Second Street and 

extending generally in a southerly 

direction approximately 3.5 miles to 

CSX Rail Valuation Station 185+00; and 

(3) the line extending from the north 

entrance to the Port of Wilmington at 

Transit Road, near its intersection with 

Burnett Blvd., to the south entrance to 

the Port of Wilmington at River Road 

near its intersection with Shipyard 

Blvd., through and including the 

classification yards and including all of 

the railroad tracks on the Port of 

Wilmington, whether denominated as 

spurs, side tracks, industrial tracks, or 

otherwise (but excluding crane rails). 

According to the verified notice, WTR 

currently operates the Line and has 

owned a permanent and exclusive 

railroad operating easement for the Line 

since 2002. WTR states that it has 

entered into the Amendment with 

NCSPA to extend the term of the 

Original Agreement and amend other 

commercial terms related to WTR’s 

operations over the Line. The verified 

notice states that the Amendment will 

be effective on the effective date of the 

exemption. 

WTR certifies that neither the Original 

Agreement nor the Amendment include 

an interchange commitment. WTR also 

certifies that its projected annual 

revenue are not expected to exceed 

those that would qualify it as a Class III 

carrier and that its revenues currently 

exceed $5 million. 

Pursuant to 49 CFR 1150.42(e), if a 

carrier’s projected annual revenues will 

exceed $5 million, it must, at least 60 

days before the exemption becomes 

effective, post a notice of its intent to 

undertake the proposed transaction at 

the workplace of the employees on the 

affected lines, serve a copy of the notice 

on the national offices of the labor 

unions with employees on the affected 

lines, and certify to the Board that it has 

done so. However, WTR has filed a 

request for waiver of the 60-day advance 

labor notice requirements to allow the 

transaction to become effective 30 days 

after WTR’s notice of exemption was 

filed. WTR’s waiver request will be 

addressed in a separate decision. The 

Board will establish the effective date of 

the exemption in its separate decision 

on the waiver request. 

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 March 1, 2024. 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

FD 36753, must be filed with the 


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