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1SMS asserts that Mannington’s petition to 

intervene ‘‘joins’’ Salem County but notes that 

Salem County is not on the Board’s service list. (Id. 

at 2.) However, neither Mannington’s petition to 

intervene nor the Board’s decision granting it 

includes Salem County, and Salem County has not 

itself petitioned to intervene. In any event, the 

procedural schedule adopted here provides an 

opportunity for other interested persons to 

participate. 

Township of Pilesgrove, N.J. 

(Pilesgrove), the Board instituted a 

declaratory order proceeding to 

determine whether and to what extent 

49 U.S.C. 10501(b) preempts certain 

local and state laws regarding land use 

and land development by SMS Rail 

Service, Inc. (SMS). Twp. of Pilesgrove, 

N.J.—Pet. for Declaratory Ord., FD 

36770 (STB served Sept. 13, 2024). The 

Board also granted a petition to 

intervene filed by the Township of 

Mannington, N.J. (Mannington), and 

directed Pilesgrove, Mannington, and 

SMS to confer and jointly submit by 

October 8, 2024, a proposed procedural 

schedule to govern this proceeding. Id. 

at 2, 3. The decision also ordered that, 

if the parties failed to agree on a 

procedural schedule, each must file its 

own proposed schedule by that date. Id. 

Counsel for the parties conferred but 

were unable to reach agreement on a 

proposed schedule. Consequently, each 

party submitted its own proposal. On 

October 4, SMS proposed the following 

procedural schedule: (1) opening 

statements by all parties due by 

November 29, 2024; (2) comments from 

other interested persons due by 

December 30, 2024; and (3) replies by 

all parties due by January 20, 2024. 

(SMS Req. 4.) SMS asserts that its 

proposed schedule will ensure a full 

and complete factual record. (Id. at 3.) 

According to SMS, there have been 

developments on the subject rail line 

since the townships’ petitions were 

filed—including state court 

proceedings—and there is additional 

information about the line from the last 

two years related to preemption that 

should be provided to the Board. (Id. at 

3–4.) SMS also asserts the townships 

have not adequately supported the 

allegations in their petitions and 

expresses concern that both townships 

may seek to introduce untimely 

evidence or argument on reply if they 

are not afforded an opportunity to 

submit opening statements. (Id. at 3–4, 

3 n.2 (citing Mannington Pet. 8–9).) 

On October 7, 2024, Pilesgrove and 

Mannington each submitted a request 

for the following proposed schedule: (1) 

SMS’s reply brief due by November 15, 

2024; (2) Pilesgrove’s and Mannington’s 

rebuttal briefs due by December 20, 

2024. (Pilesgrove Req. 1; Mannington 

Req. 2.) Pilesgrove and Mannington 

each ask the Board to consider its 

previously filed petition as its opening 

statement. (Pilesgrove Req. 1; 

Mannington Req. 2.) Mannington asserts 

that the facts have been fully described 

and explained in the townships’ 

petitions and contends that SMS should 

present any additional facts or 

clarifications before each of the parties 

files its legal analyses. (Mannington 

Req. 1.) In addition, Pilesgrove argues 

that the procedural schedule should 

provide for submissions from 

Pilesgrove, Mannington, and SMS only. 

(Pilesgrove Req. 2.) 

On October 7, 2024, SMS replied to 

Pilesgrove’s and Mannington’s requests. 

First, counsel for SMS states that his 

trial/arbitration schedule cannot 

accommodate the November 15 

deadline proposed by Pilesgrove and 

Mannington. (SMS Reply 2.) SMS also 

asserts that Salem County (Salem) 

should be provided an opportunity to 

participate, noting that Salem may 

provide support for SMS’s positions and 

reiterating its position that other 

interested persons should have an 

opportunity to file comments. (Id. at 2, 

4.) 1

No party requests discovery and 

Mannington explicitly states it believes 

discovery in this case would be 

unnecessary. (Mannington Req. 2.) The 

Board typically does not provide for 

discovery in declaratory order 

proceedings, see, e.g., Metro Council— 

Pet. for Declaratory Ord., FD 36178, slip 

op. at 4 (STB served May 22, 2018), and, 

as no party has requested it, a discovery 

period will not be included in the 

procedural schedule adopted here. 

However, to ensure that the Board has 

a sufficient record, Pilesgrove and 

Mannington will be provided an 

opportunity to supplement the record 

with additional evidence and argument 

before SMS’s reply is due, and 

submissions by other interested persons 

will be accepted, as provided below. 

Based on the forgoing considerations, 

the following procedural schedule will 

be adopted: Pilesgrove and Mannington 

may file supplemental evidence and 

argument by November 8, 2024; SMS’s 

reply evidence and argument, and 

submissions by other interested persons, 

will be due by December 9, 2024; 

rebuttal statements by Pilesgrove and 

Mannington, and SMS’s response to 

submissions by other interested persons, 

will be due by January 7, 2025. 

It is ordered: 

1. The following procedural schedule 

is adopted: 

• Pilesgrove and Mannington may file 

supplemental evidence and argument by 

November 8, 2024; 

• SMS’s reply evidence and 

argument, and submissions by other 

interested persons, are due by December 

9, 2024; and 

• Rebuttal statements by Pilesgrove 

and Mannington, and SMS’s response to 

submissions by other interested persons, 

are due by January 7, 2025. 

2. Notice of this decision will be 

published in the Federal Register. 

3. This decision is effective on its 

service date. 

Decided: October 24, 2024. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25135 Filed 10–29–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2024–0011] 

Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC; 

Pipeline Safety: Request for Special 

Permit 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA); U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this 

notice to solicit public comments on a 

request for special permit received from 

Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC (REX). 

The special permit request is seeking 

relief from compliance with Federal 

regulations in one segment of its Class 

1 pipeline that exceeds the valve 

spacing requirement by 924 feet. At the 

conclusion of the 30-day comment 

period, PHMSA will review the 

comments received from this notice as 

part of its evaluation to grant or deny 

the special permit request. 

DATES: Submit any comments regarding 

this special permit request by November 

29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should reference 

the docket number for this special 

permit request and may be submitted in 

the following ways: 

• E-Gov Website: http://

www.Regulations.gov. This site allows 

the public to enter comments on any 

Federal Register Notice issued by any 

agency. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management System: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Docket Operations, M–30, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 


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1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: Docket Management 

System: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9:00 

a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except federal holidays. 

Instructions: You should identify the 

docket number for the special permit 

request you are commenting on at the 

beginning of your comments. If you 

submit your comments by mail, please 

submit two (2) copies. To receive 

confirmation that PHMSA has received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. 

Note: There is a privacy statement 

published on http://www.Regulations.gov. 

Comments, including any personal 

information provided, are posted without 

changes or edits to http://

www.Regulations.gov. 

Confidential Business Information: 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

is commercial or financial information 

that is both customarily and treated as 

private by its owner. Under the Freedom 

of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 

552), CBI is exempt from public 

disclosure. If your comments responsive 

to this notice contain commercial or 

financial information that is customarily 

treated as private, that you treat as 

private, and that is relevant or 

responsive to this notice, it is important 

that you clearly designate the submitted 

comments as CBI. Pursuant to 49 CFR 

190.343, you may ask PHMSA to give 

confidential treatment to information 

you give to the agency by taking the 

following steps: (1) mark each page of 

the original document submission 

containing CBI as ‘‘Confidential;’’ (2) 

send PHMSA, along with the original 

document, a second copy of the original 

document with the CBI deleted; and (3) 

explain why the information you are 

submitting is CBI. Unless you are 

notified otherwise, PHMSA will treat 

such marked submissions as 

confidential under the FOIA, and they 

will not be placed in the public docket 

of this notice. Submissions containing 

CBI should be sent to Kay McIver, DOT, 

PHMSA–PHP–80, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. Any commentary PHMSA 

receives that is not specifically 

designated as CBI will be placed in the 

public docket for this matter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

General: Ms. Kay McIver by telephone 

at 202–366–0113, or by email at 

kay.mciver@dot.gov. 

Technical: Ms. Mary McDaniel by 

telephone at 713–235–0035, or by email 

at mary.mcdaniel@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA 

received a special permit request from 

Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC (REX), a 

subsidiary Tallgrass Energy, on January 

8, 2024, seeking a special permit to 

deviate from the Federal pipeline safety 

regulations in 49 CFR 192.179(a)(4), 

which requires transmission line valves 

to be placed no further than 10 miles 

apart in a Class 1 location. The special 

permit request is for a single segment 

where the valves are spaced 20.35 miles 

apart, exceeding the valve spacing 

requirement by 924 feet. 

The proposed special permit would 

allow REX to continue to operate the 

single 20.35-mile segment of 42-inch 

diameter gas transmission pipeline 

without modifying the valve location. 

The 20.35-mile segment is in a Class 1 

location in Monroe and Belmont 

Counties, Ohio. 

The special permit request, proposed 

special permit with conditions, and 

Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA)/ 

FONSI for the above listed REX pipeline 

segment are available for review and 

public comments in Docket Number 

PHMSA 2024–0011. PHMSA invites 

interested persons to review and submit 

comments on the special permit request 

and DEA/FONSI in the docket. Please 

submit comments on any potential 

safety, environmental, and other 

relevant considerations implicated by 

the special permit request. Comments 

may include relevant data. 

Before issuing a decision on the 

special permit request, PHMSA will 

evaluate all comments received on or 

before the comments closing date. 

Comments received after the closing 

date will be evaluated if it is possible to 

do so without incurring additional 

expense or delay. PHMSA will consider 

each relevant comment it receives in 

making its decision to grant or deny this 

special permit request. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 23, 

2024, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 

1.97. 

Alan K. Mayberry, 

Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25129 Filed 10–29–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Departmental Offices; 

Department of the Treasury. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, invites 

the general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment on an information 

collection that is due for extension 

approval by the Office of Management 

and Budget. The Office of International 

Affairs of the Department of the 

Treasury is soliciting comments 

concerning extension with minor 

changes of the following form: Treasury 

International Capital Form SHL/SHLA, 

‘‘Survey of Foreign-Residents’ Holdings 

of U.S. Securities, including Selected 

Money Market Instruments’’. The report 

is mandatory. The next such collection 

is the annual survey to be conducted as 

of End-June, 2025. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before December 30, 2024 

to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Dwight Wolkow, International 

Portfolio Investment Data Systems, 

Department of the Treasury, Room 1050 

MT, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20220. In view of 

possible delays in mail delivery, please 

also notify Mr. Wolkow by email 

(comments2TIC@treasury.gov), or 

telephone (202–622–1276). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the proposed forms and 

instructions are available on the 

Treasury’s TIC Forms web page at: 

https://home.treasury.gov/data/ 

treasury-international-capital-ticsystem-home-page/tic-formsinstructions/forms-shl. Requests for 

additional information should be 

directed to Mr. Wolkow 

(comments2TIC@treasury.gov or 202– 

622–1276). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Treasury International Capital 

Form SHL/SHLA, ‘‘Survey of ForeignResidents’ Holdings of U.S. Securities, 

including Selected Money Market 

Instruments’’. 

OMB Control Number: 1505–0123. 

Abstract: Form SHL/SHLA is part of 

the Treasury International Capital (TIC) 

reporting system, which is required by 

law (22 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.; E.O. 11961; 

31 CFR 129) and is used to conduct 

annual surveys of foreign-residents’ 

holdings of U.S. securities for portfolio 

investment purposes. This information 

is used by the U.S. Government in the 

formulation of international financial 

and monetary policies and for the 

preparation of the U.S. balance of 

payments accounts and the U.S. 

international investment position. This 

information is also used to provide 

information to the public and to meet 

international reporting commitments. 


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