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1 Didelius currently owns 100% of LRY, LLC d/ 

b/a Lake Railway (LRY), a Class III carrier that 

Continued 

adults over 65 (over 42 million people), 

the disability rate for those seniors 

living in the community was 36 percent 

in 2012. By 2030, people over 65 are 

expected to comprise 20 percent of the 

US population—72.1 million people. 

Employment and poverty rates also 

disproportionately negatively affect 

people with disabilities. More resources 

are needed to help communities build 

ladders of opportunity so everyone can 

have access to a job, healthcare, a home 

in the community of their choice, 

recreation/leisure opportunities and 

education. Our communities greatly 

benefit by ensuring full inclusion for 

everyone regardless of their age, 

disability, income, and education level. 

Accessible public transportation, 

including the over $280 million spent in 

5310 projects is an important enabler of 

the American Dream for many people. 

This center will make a significant 

difference in helping communities 

ensure the contributions of public 

transportation, including high impact 

5310 projects that improve mobility for 

people with disabilities and seniors. 

Ladders of opportunity build upon 

the legacy of United We Ride extending 

coordination to ensure persons of low 

income, disadvantaged communities 

and all groups benefit from coordinated 

planning activities and the resulting 

projects. So, targeting activities to 

address low income seniors, caregivers, 

and people with disabilities or those 

living in communities with limited 

resources, is an important component of 

this center’s efforts. The NADTC will 

carry-out activities that demonstrate 

impact and achieve the below goals: 

• Promoting the essential role of 

accessible public transportation in 

furthering the economic inclusion, 

access to healthcare, links to education, 

connections to recreation/leisure 

activities, and independent living of 

people with disabilities and seniors; 

• Increasing the effectiveness, 

efficiency and quality of coordinated 

human service transportation activities; 

• Ensuring that the planning of 

transportation services for people with 

disabilities, seniors and caregivers is 

done in conjunction with broader 

planning activities at all levels; 

• Highlighting and assisting in the 

development of promising practices, 

including the use of technology, to solve 

transportation challenges, maximizing 

the effectiveness of federal investments 

in specialized transportation services. 

The NADTC will achieve their goals 

through the following functions: 

• Training: Developing training 

materials in accessible transportation for 

people with disabilities and seniors that 

is online and available 24/7; 

• Peer Networks: Encouraging peer 

exchanges through webinars and online 

forums; 

• Product Development: Creating 

high quality useful products on topics 

associated with the above goals; 

• Targeted Technical Assistance: 

Providing targeted technical assistance 

at the state and local level; 

• 800# Information and Referral: 

Supporting an 800# for ad hoc 

information referral and technical 

assistance that tracks trends, connects 

with other I&R resources, helps seniors 

and people with disabilities find a ride, 

and catalogs customer data; 

• Online Tools: Maintaining a 

compelling Web site and online 

presence including a monthly 

newsletter and use of social media to 

promote promising practices; 

• Community Grants: As FTA deems 

feasible and necessary, take some 

portion of overall funding per year to 

provide community grants that enhance 

accessibility and encourage innovation; 

• Outreach: Implementing a yearly 

outreach project to publicize the 

resources, activities and findings of the 

center; 

• Technology: monitor and promote 

emerging technologies that facilitate 

accessibility, wayfinding, scheduling/

dispatching, one call and evolving 

public/private sector partnerships that 

can improve access to transportation 

options and improve mobility; 

• Information Clearinghouse: Acting 

as a clearinghouse for useful and 

promising practices in human services 

transportation and provide online 

access to success stories; 

• Community Accessibility 

Scorecard: Developing and maintaining 

a community accessibility scorecard and 

index to help communities easily assess 

where they are, what needs exist in their 

community and where gaps may exist— 

targeted technical assistance would then 

be available to address these gaps and 

help the community develop a roadmap 

to expanding accessible transportation; 

• Broad Stakeholder Review 

Committees: Ensuring that people with 

disabilities and seniors themselves as 

well as the human services 

organizations that provide services for 

these individuals collaborate along with 

FTA in the work of the center and help 

to oversee and review materials, training 

courses and other activities; 

• Bridging Research to Practice: 

Connecting research to practice by 

bridging the research efforts of 

university transit centers, gerontology 

university programs, university 

disability centers, evolving technology 

initiatives and TRB project findings 

with the training and technical 

assistance activities of the center; 

• Yearly Trends Report: Writing a 

yearly state of accessible transportation 

report that identifies key trends, key 

issues, sustainable solutions and 

recommends areas of focus in accessible 

transportation to support the 

development of the following year’s 

statement of work; 

• Program Evaluation: Supporting a 

robust program evaluation component 

by an outside source that does a yearly 

assessment of the center including 

surveying key stakeholders on the 

utility they derived in working with the 

center; 

FTA intends to fund the NADTC at up 

to $ 2,500,000 for the first year with the 

option to extend for up to four 

additional years. FTA’s decision to 

exercise these options will depend 

upon: 1) Decisions and program 

priorities established by the Secretary of 

Transportation related to the 

implementation of provisions set forth 

in Section 5314, Technical Assistance 

and Standards, of the Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP– 

21); 2) future appropriations; and, 3) 

annual reviews of the NADTC’s 

performance. The announcement below 

connects to the solicitation and 

describes the goals, functional activities, 

and evaluation measures established for 

the NADTC; the proposal submission 

process; and criteria upon which 

proposals will be reviewed. 

This announcement is available on 

the FTA’s Web site at: http://

WWW.FTA.DOT.GOV/GRANTS/

13077.HTML. The funding opportunity 

RFP is posted in the FIND module of the 

government-wide electronic grants Web 

site at http://www.grants.gov. 

Therese McMillan, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02378 Filed 2–5–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35901] 

Paul Didelius—Continuance in 

Control—CCET, LLC 

Paul Didelius (Didelius), an 

individual and noncarrier, has filed a 

verified notice of exemption pursuant to 

49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2) to continue in 

control of CCET, LLC (CCET), a Class III 

rail carrier.1 Didelius owns 100% of 


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leases and operates rail lines owned by Union 

Pacific Railroad Company in California and Oregon; 

he also owns 49% of YCR Corporation (YRC), a 

Class III rail carrier established for the purpose of 

leasing and operating a line of railroad owned by 

Yakima County, Washington. 

2 It appears that Didelius controlled LRY and YCR 

when CCET first became a carrier through its lease 

of another portion of the CT Line in 2014, but he 

failed to seek authority for continuance in control 

at that time. See CCET, LLC—Lease & Operation 

Exemption—Rail Line of Norfolk S. Ry., FD 35810 

(STB served Apr. 4, 2014). Therefore, Didelius 

should have sought continuance in control 

authority at that time. We will treat the current 

verified notice of exemption as a belated request for 

continuance in control authority. 

1See CCET, LLC—Lease & Operation 

Exemption—Rail Line of Norfolk S. Ry., FD 35810 

(STB served Apr. 4, 2014). 

2On January 15, 2015, the Board allowed NSR to 

discontinue its freight rail service over 

approximately 40.7 miles of rail line, including the 

Line Extension, in Clermont, Brown, and Adams 

Counties, Ohio; the exemption should become 

effective on February 14, 2015. See Norfolk S. Ry.— 

Discontinuance of Serv. Exemption—in Clermont, 

Brown, & Adams Cntys., Ohio, AB 290 (Sub-No. 

370X) (STB served Jan. 15, 2015). Upon reaching an 

agreement with CCET to lease and operate the Line 

Extension, however, NSR informed the Board by 

letter dated January 20, 2015, that it will not 

effectuate discontinuance over the Line Extension. 

See CCET Petition, Ex. D. 

CCET, a short line rail carrier organized 

for the purpose of leasing and operating 

a line of railroad owned by the Norfolk 

Southern Railway Company (NSR). 

This transaction is related to a 

concurrently filed verified notice of 

exemption in CCET, LLC—Lease & 

Operation Exemption—Rail Line of 

Norfolk Southern Railway in Clermont, 

Brown, & Adams Counties, Ohio, Docket 

No. FD 35900, in which CCET seeks 

Board approval to amend an agreement 

to allow CCET to lease additional NSR 

CT Line trackage, from milepost CT 

32.83 to milepost CT 62.20, east of 

Seaman, Ohio.2

The transaction may be consummated 

on or after February 21, 2015, the 

effective date of the exemption (30 days 

after the verified notice of exemption 

was filed). 

Didelius represents that: (1) CCET 

does not connect with any of the other 

rail lines operated and controlled by 

Didelius; (2) there are no plans to 

acquire additional rail lines for the 

purpose of making a connection; and (3) 

each of the carriers involved the 

continuance in control transaction is a 

Class III carrier. Therefore, the 

transaction is exempt from the prior 

approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 

11323. See 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2). 

Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board 

may not use its exemption authority to 

relieve a rail carrier of its statutory 

obligation to protect the interests of its 

employees. Section 11326(c), however, 

does not provide for labor protection for 

transactions under §§ 11324 and 11325 

that involve only Class III rail carriers. 

Accordingly, the Board may not impose 

labor protective conditions here, 

because all of the carriers involved are 

Class III carriers. 

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 February 13, 2015 

(at least seven days before the 

exemption becomes effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35901, must be filed with Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, one copy of each pleading 

must be served on James H. M. Savage, 

22 Rockingham Court, Germantown, MD 

20874. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at 

‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’ 

Decided: February 3, 2015. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Brendetta S. Jones, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02411 Filed 2–5–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35900] 

CCET, LLC—Lease and Operation 

Exemption—Rail Line of Norfolk 

Southern Railway Company in 

Clermont, Brown, and Adams 

Counties, Ohio 

CCET, LLC (CCET), a Class III carrier, 

has filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR 1150.41 to lease from 

Norfolk Southern Railway (NSR) and 

operate a portion of NSR’s CT Line, 

between milepost CT 32.83 and 

milepost CT 62.20, east of Seaman, Ohio 

(Line Extension). 

CCET and NSR entered into a lease 

agreement on March 14, 2014, under 

which CCET currently leases a 24-mile 

portion of the CT Line between milepost 

CT 9.0 at Clare, Ohio, and milepost CT 

32.83, west of Williamsburg, Ohio.1 The 

parties now desire to amend the lease to 

include the Line Extension to the east, 

which would allow CCET to pursue 

additional commercial opportunities.2

NSR will retain limited overhead 

trackage rights over the Line Extension. 

This transaction is related to a 

concurrently filed verified notice of 

exemption in Paul Didelius— 

Continuance in Control—CCET, LLC, 

Docket No. FD 35901, in which Paul 

Didelius seeks Board approval to 

continue in control of CCET under 49 

CFR 1180.2(d)(2). 

CCET states that the lease between 

CCET and NSR does not contain any 

provision that prohibits, restricts, or 

would otherwise limit future 

interchange of traffic with any thirdparty carrier. 

CCET has certified that its projected 

annual revenues as a result of this 

transaction will not result in CCET’s 

becoming a Class II or Class I rail carrier 

and will not exceed $5 million. 

CCET states that the lease and 

operation of the Line Extension will 

commence on or after February 21, 

2015, the effective date of the exemption 

(30 days after the verified notice of 

exemption was filed). 

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 February 13, 2015 

(at least seven days before the 

exemption becomes effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35900, must be filed with Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, one copy of each pleading 

must be served on James H.M. Savage, 

22 Rockingham Court, Germantown, MD 

20874. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at 

‘‘www.stb.dot.gov.’’ 

Decided: February 3, 2015. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Brendetta S. Jones, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02410 Filed 2–5–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Open Meeting of the President’s 

Advisory Council on Financial 

Capability for Young Americans 

AGENCY: Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 


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