4962 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 19 / Thursday, January 29, 2015 / Notices 

1The 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. 

2Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which is currently set at $1,600. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

declaration of an emergency is not 

eventually made by the President, 

governor or mayor. Therefore, a request 

for relief is not necessary in order to 

provide this service. However, if the 

emergency lasts more than 45 calendar 

days, the grantee or subgrantee shall 

follow the procedures set out in this 

notice. 

FTA reserves the right to reopen any 

docket and reconsider any decision 

made pursuant to these emergency 

procedures based upon its own 

initiative, based upon information or 

comments received subsequent to the 

three business day comment period, or 

at the request of a grantee or subgrantee 

upon denial of a request for relief. FTA 

shall notify the grantee or subgrantee if 

it plans to reconsider a decision. FTA 

decision letters, either granting or 

denying a petition, shall be posted in 

the Emergency Relief Docket and shall 

reference the document number of the 

petition to which it relates. 

Therese McMillan, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01664 Filed 1–28–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. AB 290 (Sub–No. 366X)] 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Stark 

County, Ohio 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 

(NSR) has filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR pt. 1152 

subpart F—Exempt Abandonments to 

abandon approximately 1.30 miles of 

railroad line (the Line). The Line 

extends between mileposts EU 0.70 and 

EU 2.00 near Massillon, in Stark 

County, Ohio and traverses United 

States Postal Service Zip Code 44647. 

NSR has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the Line for at 

least two years; (2) no overhead traffic 

has moved over the Line for at least two 

years, and overhead traffic, if there were 

any, could 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 two-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 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 may become effective on 

February 28, 2015, 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 interim trail use/rail 

banking requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 

must be filed by February 9, 2015. 

Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by February 18, 

2015, 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 NSR’s 

representative: William A. Mullins, 

Baker & Miller PLLC, 2401 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC 

20037. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

NSR has filed a combined 

environmental and historic report that 

address the effects, if any, of the 

abandonment on the environment and 

historic resources. OEA will issue an 

environmental assessment (EA) by 

February 3, 2015. 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 

(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 interim 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), NSR 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 

NSR’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by January 29, 2016, 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: January 26, 2015. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Brendetta S. Jones, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01658 Filed 1–28–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 374X)] 

Central of Georgia Railroad 

Company—Discontinuance of Service 

Exemption—in Spalding County, Ga 

Central of Georgia Railroad Company 

(CGR), a wholly owned subsidiary of 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company, 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR pt. 1152 subpart F— 

Exempt Abandonments and 

Discontinuances of Service to 

discontinue service over approximately 

4.50 miles of railroad line in Spalding 

County, Ga. (the Line). The Line extends 

between milepost C 252.9 and milepost 

C 257.4 and traverses United States 

Postal Service Zip Codes 30223 and 

30224. 

CGR has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the Line for at 

least two years; (2) no overhead traffic 

has moved over the Line for at least two 

years, and if there were any overhead 

traffic, it could 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 before the Surface 

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