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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 (SEA) 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 OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

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

1002.2(f)(25). 

operate scheduled passenger service as 

a commuter air carrier (‘‘the Statute’’). 

Barbara J. Hairston, 

Supervisory Dockets Officer, Docket 

Operations Alternate Federal Register 

Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2010–2843 Filed 2–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Applications for Certificates 

of Public Convenience and Necessity 

and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed 

Under Subpart B (Formerly Subpart Q) 

During the Week Ending October 9, 

2009 

The following Applications for 

Certificates of Public Convenience and 

Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier 

Permits were filed under Subpart B 

(formerly Subpart Q) of the Department 

of Transportation’s Procedural 

Regulations (See 14 CFR 301.201 et 

seq.). The due date for Answers, 

Conforming Applications, or Motions to 

Modify Scope are set forth below for 

each application. Following the Answer 

period DOT may process the application 

by expedited procedures. Such 

procedures may consist of the adoption 

of a show-cause order, a tentative order, 

or in appropriate cases a final order 

without further proceedings. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2009– 

0243. 

Date Filed: October 6, 2009. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: October 27, 2009. 

Description: Application of Albinati 

Aeronautics SA (‘‘Albinati’’) requesting a 

foreign air carrier permit to the full 

extent authorized by the Air Transport 

Agreement between the Government of 

Switzerland and the Government of the 

United States of America in order to 

engage in: (i) Charter foreign air 

transportation of persons, property and 

mail from points behind Switzerland via 

Switzerland and intermediate points to 

a point or points in the United States 

and beyond; and (ii) Fifth Freedom 

charter service pursuant to the prior 

approval requirements set forth in Part 

212 of the Department’s Economic 

Regulations. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2009– 

0244. 

Date Filed: October 6, 2009. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: October 27, 2009. 

Description: Application of Hellenic 

Imperial Airways (‘‘Hellenic’’) 

requesting exemption authority and a 

foreign air carrier permit to conduct 

scheduled and charter foreign air 

transportation of persons, property, and 

mail, between a point or points in the 

European Community and the Member 

States of the European Union, and a 

point or points in the United States, to 

the full extent allowed under the Air 

Transport Agreement between the 

United States and the European 

Community and the Member States of 

the European Union. 

Barbara J. Hairston, 

Supervisory Dockets Officer, Docket 

Operations, Alternate Federal Register 

Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2010–2789 Filed 2–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–1052X] 

Almanor Railroad Company— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Plumas 

and Lassen Counties, CA 

Almanor Railroad Company (AL) filed 

a notice of exemption under 49 CFR 

1152 Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments to abandon a 12.3-mile 

line of railroad between milepost 0.0 in 

Chester, and milepost 12.3 near Clear 

Creek, in Plumas and Lassen Counties, 

CA. The line traverses United States 

Postal Service Zip Code 96020. 

AL has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has been handled to or from any 

customer over the rail line for at least 2 

years; (2) any overhead traffic on the 

line 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 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 report), 49 CFR 

1105.8 (historic 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 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 March 

11, 2010, 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 February 

19, 2010. Petitions to reopen or requests 

for public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by March 1, 2010, 

with: Surface Transportation Board, 395 

E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423– 

0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to AL’s 

representative: Fritz R. Kahn, Fritz R. 

Kahn, P.C., 1920 N Street, NW., 8th 

Floor, Washington, DC 20036. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

AL has filed environmental and 

historic reports which address the 

effects, if any, of the abandonment on 

the environment and historic resources. 

SEA will issue an environmental 

assessment (EA) by February 12, 2010. 

Interested persons may obtain a copy of 

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 1100, 

Surface Transportation Board, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by 

calling SEA, at (202) 245–0305. 

Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) 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), AL 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 

AL’s filing of a notice of consummation 

by February 9, 2011, and there are no 

legal or regulatory barriers to 


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