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1CSXT received authority to abandon the Line in 

2023. See CSX Transp., Inc.—Aban. Exemption—in 

Cuyahoga Cnty., Ohio, AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X) (STB 

served Sept. 1, 2023). CSXT did not disclose the 

existence of NSR’s trackage rights in that 

proceeding. On September 6, 2024, in that docket, 

CSXT filed a request for an extension of the 

consummation deadline. CSXT states that NSR’s 

trackage rights constitute a barrier to CSXT’s 

consummation of abandonment and requests that 

the Board extend the deadline to consummate until 

60 days after NSR’s discontinuance authority in this 

docket is granted. CSXT’s request for an extension 

will be addressed in a separate decision in Docket 

No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X). 

In light of that pending request, however, NSR is 

directed to notify CSXT when NSR has 

consummated its authority to discontinue service 

over the Line. See BNSF Ry.—Aban. Exemption— 

in Flathead Cnty., Mont., AB 6 (Sub-No. 495X), slip 

op. at 2 n.2 (STB served Aug. 14, 2017). 

2Persons interested in submitting an OFA to 

subsidize continued rail service must first file a 

formal expression of intent to file an offer, 

indicating the intent to file an OFA for subsidy and 

demonstrating that they are preliminarily 

financially responsible. See 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2)(i). 

3The filing fee for OFAs can be found at 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

4Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and 

not an abandonment, interim trail use/rail banking 

and public use conditions are not appropriate. As 

noted, supra note 1, CSXT received authority to 

abandon the Line in CSX Transportation, Inc.— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Cuyahoga County, 

Ohio, AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X) (STB served Sept. 1, 

2023). In its environmental review in that 

proceeding, the Board’s Office of Environmental 

Analysis found that the abandonment would not 

significantly affect the quality of the human 

environment and recommended no environmental 

conditions. As a result, none were imposed. CSX 

Transp., Inc.—Aban. Exemption—in Cuyahoga 

Cnty., Ohio, AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X) (STB served 

Sept. 28, 2023). Because the Line has already been 

Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, 

Georgetown, Lexington, 

Williamsburg 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

For Physical Damage: 

Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... 5.625 

Homeowners without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 2.813 

Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... 8.000 

Businesses without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 4.000 

Non-Profit Organizations with 

Credit Available Elsewhere ... 3.250 

Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 3.250 

For Economic Injury: 

Business and Small Agricultural 

Cooperatives without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 4.000 

Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 3.250 

The number assigned to this disaster 

for physical damage is 205748 and for 

economic injury is 205750. 

The State which received an EIDL 

Declaration is South Carolina. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number 59008) 

Isabella Guzman, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21906 Filed 9–24–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8026–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12547] 

Certification Related to Foreign Military 

Financing for Colombia Under Section 

7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of 

State, Foreign Operations, and Related 

Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 

Pursuant to the authority vested in the 

Secretary of State, including under 

section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department 

of State, Foreign Operations, and 

Related Programs Appropriations Act, 

2024 (Div. F, Pub. L. 118–47), I hereby 

certify that: 

(i) the Special Jurisdiction for Peace 

and other judicial authorities, as 

appropriate, are sentencing perpetrators 

of gross violations of human rights, 

including those with command 

responsibility, to deprivation of liberty; 

(ii) the Government of Colombia is 

making consistent progress in reducing 

threats and attacks against human rights 

defenders and other civil society 

activists, and judicial authorities are 

prosecuting and punishing those 

responsible for ordering and carrying 

out such attacks; 

(iii) the Government of Colombia is 

making consistent progress in protecting 

Afro-Colombian and Indigenous 

communities and is respecting their 

rights and territories; 

(iv) senior military officers credibly 

alleged, or whose units are credibly 

alleged, to be responsible for ordering, 

committing, and covering up cases of 

false positives and other extrajudicial 

killings, or of committing other gross 

violations of human rights, or of 

conducting illegal communications 

intercepts or other illicit surveillance, 

are being held accountable, including 

removal from active duty if found guilty 

through criminal, administrative, or 

disciplinary proceedings; and 

(v) the Colombian Armed Forces are 

cooperating fully with the requirements 

described in (I) through (IV) above. 

This Certification shall be published 

in the Federal Register and shall be 

transmitted, along with the 

accompanying Memorandum of 

Justification, to Congress. 

Dated: September 9, 2024. 

Antony J. Blinken, 

Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21952 Filed 9–24–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–29–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 553X)] 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company— 

Discontinuance of Trackage Rights 

Exemption—in Cuyahoga County, Ohio 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 

(NSR) has filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR part 1152 

subpart F—Exempt Abandonments and 

Discontinuances of Service to 

discontinue trackage rights over 

approximately 1.3 miles of rail line 

owned by CSX Transportation, Inc. 

(CSXT), between milepost BJB 73.21 

and milepost BJB 74.51 (the Line) on 

CSXT’s Cleveland Subdivision.1 The 

Line traverses U.S. Postal Service Zip 

Codes 44113 and 44115. 

NSR has certified that: (1) no local 

traffic has moved over the Line for at 

least two years; (2) any common carrier 

overhead traffic can be rerouted; (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 on the Line is either pending 

with the Surface Transportation Board 

(Board) or with any U.S. District Court 

or has been decided in favor of a 

complainant within the two-year period; 

and (4) the requirements at 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 

discontinuance of service 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 U.S.C. 10502(d) must be filed. 

Provided no formal expression of 

intent to file an offer of financial 

assistance (OFA) 2 to subsidize 

continued rail service has been 

received, this exemption will be 

effective on October 25, 2024, unless 

stayed pending reconsideration. 

Petitions to stay that do not involve 

environmental issues and formal 

expressions of intent to file an OFA to 

subsidize continued rail service under 

49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2) 3 must be filed by 

October 4, 2024.4 Petitions to reopen 

must be filed by October 15, 2024. 


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subject to environmental review during the 

abandonment proceeding, this discontinuance does 

not require environmental review. 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

AB 290 (Sub-No. 553X), must be filed 

with the Board via e-filing on the 

Board’s website or in writing addressed 

to 395 E Street SW, Washington, DC 

20423–0001. In addition, a copy of each 

pleading must be served on NSR’s 

representative, William A. Mullins, 

Mullins Law Group PLLC, 2001 L Street 

NW, Suite 720, Washington, DC 20036. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: September 20, 2024. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Zantori Dickerson, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21940 Filed 9–24–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36804] 

Vermilion Valley Railroad Company, 

LLC—Operation Exemption—FNG 

Logistics Company 

Vermilion Valley Railroad Company, 

LLC (VVRR), a Class III rail carrier, has 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

pursuant to 49 CFR 1150.41 to operate 

a rail line owned by FNG Logistics 

Company (FNG). The line extends 

approximately 5.91 miles between the 

Indiana/Illinois state boundary line at 

milepost 5.18 in Vermillion County, 

Ind., and the track’s terminus at 

milepost 11.09 at Olin (near Covington) 

in Warren County, Ind. (the Line). VVRR 

states that it has operated the Line since 

2003 pursuant to an agreement with 

FNG. 

According to the verified notice, 

VVRR and FNG have entered into a new 

agreement, which extends the term of 

the last agreement between VVRR and 

FNG and amends certain economic 

terms of the parties’ arrangement. Under 

the new agreement, VVRR will continue 

to operate the Line to provide common 

carrier rail service to all shippers on the 

Line, and to interchange traffic moving 

to and from the Line with CSX 

Transportation, Inc. 

VVRR certifies that its annual 

projected revenues as a result of the 

transaction will not result in the 

creation of a Class II or Class I rail 

carrier and will not exceed $5 million. 

VVRR also states that the operation 

agreement does not involve any 

interchange commitments. 

The earliest this transaction may be 

consummated is October 9, 2024, the 

effective date of the exemption. 

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 October 2, 2024 (at 

least seven days before the exemption 

becomes effective). 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

FD 36804, must be filed with the 

Surface Transportation Board either via 

e-filing on the Board’s website or in 

writing addressed to 395 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on VVRR’s representative, 

Terence M. Hynes, Sidley Austin LLP, 

1501 K Street NW, Washington, DC 

20005. 

According to VVRR, this action is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c) and from historic preservation 

reporting requirements under 49 CFR 

1105.8(b). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: September 20, 2024. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Stefan Rice, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22093 Filed 9–24–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Research, Engineering, and 

Development Advisory Committee; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Research, Engineering, 

and Development Advisory Committee 

(REDAC). 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 16, 2024, from 9:30 a.m.–4:30 

p.m. EST. Requests for accommodations 

for a disability must be received by 

October 2, 2024. Individuals requesting 

to speak during the meeting must 

submit a written copy of their remarks 

to DOT by October 2, 2024. Requests to 

submit written materials to be reviewed 

during the meeting must be received no 

later than October 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

a hybrid setting to permit virtual 

participation. Virtual attendance 

information will be provided upon 

registration. The meeting will be held at 

the Federal Aviation Administration, 

800 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20591. A detailed 

agenda will be available on the REDAC 

internet website at http://www.faa.gov/ 

go/redac at least one week before the 

meeting, along with copies of the 

meeting minutes after the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chinita Roundtree-Coleman, REDAC 

PM/Lead, FAA/U.S. Department of 

Transportation, at chinita.roundtreecoleman@faa.gov or (609) 485–7149 or 

(609) 569–3729. Any committee-related 

request should be sent to the person 

listed in this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The REDAC was created under the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, in 

accordance with Public Law (Pub. L.) 

100–591 (1988) and Public Law 101–508 

(1990), to provide advice and 

recommendations to the FAA 

Administrator in support of the 

Agency’s Research and Development 

(R&D) portfolio. 

II. Agenda 

At the meeting, the agenda will cover 

the following topics: 

• FAA R&D Strategies, Initiatives, and 

Planning 

• Impacts of emerging technologies, 

new entrant vehicles, and dynamic 

operations within the National 

Airspace System 

III. Public Participation 

DOT is committed to providing equal 

access to this meeting for all 

participants. The meetings will be 

‘‘open to the public’’ per 41 CFR 102– 

3.150(a) meeting notice requirements. If 

you need alternative formats or services 

because of a disability, such as sign 

language, interpretation, or other 

ancillary aids, please contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. 

There will be 45 minutes allotted for 

oral comments from members of the 

public joining the meeting. To 

accommodate as many speakers as 

possible, the time for each commenter 

may be limited. Individuals wishing to 

reserve speaking time during the 

meeting must submit a request at the 


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