9784 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 35 / Tuesday, February 22, 2022 / Notices 

1Persons interested in submitting an OFA must 

first file a formal expression of intent to file an 

accommodate the constraints associated 

with the virtual meeting format. Any 

changes to the agenda will be reported 

to those who RSVP. 

Those who plan to participate may 

contact the meeting coordinator, LCDR 

Bryan Watts, by email at Bryan.Watts@

uscg.mil, by phone at (202) 372–1446, or 

in writing at COMDT (CG–OES–3), 

ATTN: LCDR Bryan Watts, 2703 Martin 

Luther King Jr. Ave. SE Stop 7509, 

Washington DC 20593–7509. Members 

of the public needing reasonable 

accommodation should advise LCDR 

Watts not later than March 15, 2022. 

Requests made after that date will be 

considered, but might not be possible to 

fulfill. 

Additional information regarding this 

and other IMO public meetings may be 

found at: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/ 

IMO. 

(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2656 and 5 U.S.C. 552) 

Emily A. Rose, 

Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean 

and Polar Affairs, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03641 Filed 2–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 11658] 

Biodiversity Beyond National 

Jurisdiction 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting 

SUMMARY: The Department of State will 

hold an information session regarding 

upcoming United Nations negotiations 

concerning marine biodiversity in areas 

beyond national jurisdiction. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

via WebEx on February 23, 2022, 3:00— 

4:00 p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you would like to participate in this 

meeting, please send your (1) name, (2) 

organization/affiliation, and (3) email 

address and phone number, to Erika 

Carlsen at CarlsenEL@state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of State will hold a public 

meeting at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 

February 23, 2022, to prepare for the 

fourth session of an Intergovernmental 

Conference (IGC) on the conservation 

and sustainable use of marine biological 

diversity of areas beyond national 

jurisdiction (BBNJ). This public meeting 

will be held by way of WebEx, with a 

capacity of up to 1000 members of the 

public to participate. To RSVP, 

participants should contact the meeting 

coordinator, Erika Carlsen, by email at 

CarlsenEL@state.gov for log on and dialin information, and to request 

reasonable accommodation. Requests for 

reasonable accommodation received 

after February 18, 2022, will be 

considered but might not be possible to 

fulfill. 

The United Nations will convene the 

fourth session of the BBNJ IGC on 

March 7–18, 2022, in New York City. 

The UN General Assembly established 

the IGC to consider the 

recommendations of a two-year 

Preparatory Committee and to elaborate 

the text of an international legally 

binding instrument under the United 

Nations Convention on the Law of Sea 

on BBNJ. The previously scheduled 

fourth session of the IGC was postponed 

due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Additional information on the BBNJ 

process is available at www.un.org/bbnj. 

We are inviting interested 

stakeholders to this virtual public 

meeting to share views about the BBNJ 

IGC, in particular to provide 

information to assist the U.S. 

Government in developing its positions. 

We will provide a brief overview of the 

upcoming discussions and listen to the 

viewpoints of U.S. stakeholders. The 

information obtained from this session 

will help the U.S. delegation prepare for 

participation in the fourth IGC session. 

Zachary A. Parker, 

Director, Office of Directives Management, 

U.S. Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03670 Filed 2–18–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 11662] 

Determination and Certification of the 

Foreign Assistance Act Relating to the 

Largest Exporting and Importing 

Countries of Certain Precursor 

Chemicals 

Pursuant to Section 490(b)(1)(A) of 

the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 

amended, I hereby determine and certify 

the top five exporting and importing 

countries and economies of 

pseudoephedrine and ephedrine 

(Canada, Germany, India, Indonesia, 

Japan, People’s Republic of China, 

Republic of Korea, Singapore, 

Switzerland, Turkey, and the United 

Kingdom) have cooperated fully with 

the United States, or have taken 

adequate steps on their own, to achieve 

full compliance with the goals and 

objectives established by the 1988 UN 

Convention Against Illicit Traffic in 

Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic 

Substances. 

This determination and certification 

shall be published in the Federal 

Register, and copies shall be provided 

to Congress together with the 

companying Memorandum of 

Justification. 

Dated: January 28, 2022. 

Wendy R. Sherman, 

Deputy Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03743 Filed 2–18–22; 8:45 am] 

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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 806X)] 

CSX Transportation, Inc.— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Erie 

County, PA. 

CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), has 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR part 1152 subpart F— 

Exemption Abandonments to abandon 

an approximately 0.5-mile rail line 

between Val Sta. 1576+25 and Val Sta. 

170+35 on its Great Lakes Division, Erie 

West Subdivision, in Erie County, PA 

(the Line). The Line traverses U.S. 

Postal Service Zip Code 16507. 

CSXT has certified that: (1) No freight 

traffic has moved over the Line for at 

least two years; (2) the Line is not a 

through line, and therefore no overhead 

traffic has operated over the Line and 

none would need to be rerouted; (3) no 

formal complaint filed by a user of rail 

service on the Line (or by state or local 

government on behalf of such user) 

regarding cessation of service over the 

Line either is pending with the Surface 

Transportation Board (Board) or has 

been decided in favor of a complainant 

within the two-year period; and (4) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(b) and 

1105.8(c) (notice of environmental and 

historic reports), 49 CFR 1105.12 

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR 

1152.50(d)(1) (notice to government 

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,1


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