28442 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 99 / Friday, May 22, 1998 / Notices

1These proceedings are not consolidated. A

single decision is being issued for administrative

convenience only. In addition, this oversight matter

was recently assigned the Sub-No. 26 docket

number and a new case title.

2 In that decision the Board announced, inter alia,

that, pursuant to 49 CFR 1180.4(b), Canadian

National Railway Company (CNR), Grand Trunk

Corporation, and Grand Trunk Western Railroad

Incorporated (GTW), Illinois Central Corporation

(IC Corp.), Illinois Central Railroad Company (ICR),

Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad Company,

and Cedar River Railroad Company (collectively,

applicants) had notified us of their intent to file an

application seeking authority under 49 U.S.C.

11323–25 for the acquisition of control, by CNR,

through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary

Blackhawk Merger Sub, Inc., of IC Corp., and

through it of ICR and its railroad affiliates, and for

the resulting common control by CNR of GTW and

its railroad affiliates and ICR and its railroad

affiliates. The Board found this to be a major

transaction as defined in 49 CFR part 1180.

3 In what is now STB Finance Docket No. 32760

(Sub-No. 26), the petition for reconsideration was

filed by UTU–IL, and by United Transportation

Union-General Committee of Adjustment (GO–386),

United Transportation Union-General Committee of

Adjustment (GO–401), and United Transportation

Union-General Committee of Adjustment (ALS). We

will refer to the petitioners in both proceedings

collectively as UTU Committees.

4 In that decision, the Board instituted a

proceeding as part of the 5-year oversight condition

that it imposed in Union Pacific Corporation, Union

Pacific Railroad Company, and Missouri Pacific

Railroad Company—Control and Merger—Southern

Pacific Rail Corporation, Southern Pacific

Transportation Company, St. Louis Southwestern

Railway Company, SPCSL Corp., and The Denver

and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company,

Finance Docket No. 32760 (UP/SP Merger), Decision

No. 44 (STB served Aug. 12, 1996), to examine

additional remedial conditions to the UP/SP merger

as they pertain to rail service in the Houston, Texas/

Gulf Coast region.

5 In Decision No. 2 at 3 and Decision No. 1 at 3,

we directed that:

[i]n addition to submitting an original and 25

copies of all paper documents filed with the Board,

the parties shall also submit, on diskettes or

—Drainage Rehabilitation

Class or classes of air carriers which

the public agency has requested not be

required to collect PFCs: NonScheduled Part 135 and Part 121 charter

operators.

Any person may inspect the

application in person at the FAA office

listed above under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT and at the FAA

regional Airports office located at:

Fitzgerald Federal Building, John F.

Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica,

New York, 11430.

In addition, any person may, upon

request, inspect the application, notice

and other documents germane to the

application in person at the Tri-State

Airport Authority.

Issued in Jamaica, New York on May 15,

1998.

Thomas Felix,

Manager, Planning & Programming Branch,

Eastern Region.

[FR Doc. 98–13748 Filed 5–21–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

Amtrak Reform Council; Notice of First

Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Railroad

Administration (FRA), Department of

Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of First Meeting of the

Amtrak Reform Council.

SUMMARY: As provided in Section 203 of

the Amtrak Reform and Accountability

Act of 1997, the Federal Railroad

Administration (FRA) gives notice of the

first meeting of the Amtrak Reform

Council (‘‘ARC’’). The purpose of the

meeting is to begin to develop a work

plan for the ARC, to establish certain

administrative procedures, including a

process for selection of a chair, and to

begin to review Amtrak’s current

financial and operational structure.

DATES: The first meeting of the ARC is

scheduled for 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

EST on Tuesday, May 26, 1998.

Decisions regarding future meetings will

be made at the first meeting and from

time to time thereafter.

ADDRESSES: The first meeting of the

ARC will be held in Room 283 in the

Hall of States at 444 North Capitol

Street, NW, Washington, DC. The

meeting is open to the public on a firstcome, first-served basis and is accessible

to individuals with disabilities. Persons

in need of special arrangements should

contact the person whose name is listed

below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Arrigo Mongini, Deputy Associate

Administrator for Railroad

Development, FRA, RDV–2, Mail Stop

20, 400 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20590 (mailing address

only) or by telephone at (202) 632–3286.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ARC

was created by the Amtrak Reform and

Accountability Act of 1997 (ARAA) as

an independent commission to evaluate

Amtrak’s performance and make

recommendations to Amtrak for

achieving further cost containment and

productivity improvements, and

financial reforms. In addition, the

ARAA requires: that the ARC monitor

cost savings resulting from work rules

established under new agreements

between Amtrak and its labor unions;

that the ARC provide an annual report

to Congress that includes an assessment

of Amtrak’s progress on the resolution

of productivity issues; and that after two

years the ARC begin to make findings on

whether Amtrak can meet certain

financial goals and, if not, to notify the

President and the Congress.

The ARAA provides that the ARC

consist of eleven members, including

the Secretary of Transportation and ten

others nominated by the President or

Congressional leaders. Each member is

to serve a 5 year term.

Issued in Washington, D.C. on May 19,

1998.

Donald M. Itzkoff,

Deputy Administrator.

[FR Doc. 98–13709 Filed 5–21–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 33556 1 et al.]

Railroad Operation, Acquisition,

Construction, Etc: Canadian National

Railway Co. et al.

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board.

ACTION: Decision No. 3 in STB Finance

Docket No. 32760 (Sub-No. 26) and

Decision No. 3 in STB Finance Docket

No. 33556; Denial of general waiver.

SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation

Board (Board) is denying petitions for

reconsideration in these proceedings of

the requirement that parties submit

copies of all textual materials on

diskettes (disks) or compact discs (CDs).

Parties may, however, seek individual

waivers of the disk filing requirement.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julia

M. Farr, (202) 565–1613. [TDD for the

hearing impaired: (202) 565–1695.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March

26, 1998, Joseph C. Szabo, for and on

behalf of the United Transportation

Union—Illinois Legislative Board

(UTUIL), filed a petition for

reconsideration of Decision No. 2 in the

STB Finance Docket No. 33556

proceeding served and published in the

Federal Register on March 13, 1998 (63

FR 12574).2 On April 20, 1998, UTU

Committees 3 filed a petition for

reconsideration of Decision No. 1 in the

STB Finance Docket No. 32760 (Sub-No.

26) proceeding (formerly Decision No.

12 in STB Finance Docket No. 32760

(Sub-No. 21)), which was served on

March 31, 1998, and published in the

Federal Register on April 3, 1998 (63 FR

16628).4 The petitions are nearly

identical and will be considered

together. UTU Committees seek

reconsideration of the requirement in

these proceedings that all parties submit

copies of their textual materials on 3.5

inch IBM-compatible disks or CDs.5