Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 54 / Monday, March 23, 2009 / Notices 12173 

Orlando, OES/ENV Room 2657, U.S. 

Department of State, Washington, DC 

20520. Comments may be submitted 

electronically to 

xlpipelineproject@state.gov. Public 

comments will be posted on the Web 

site identified below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the proposed project or 

to receive a copy of the draft EIS when 

it is issued, contact Elizabeth Orlando at 

the address listed in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice by electronic or 

regular mail as listed above, or by 

telephone (202) 647–4284 or by fax at 

(202) 647–5947. 

Project details and environmental 

information on the Keystone XL Project 

application for a Presidential Permit, 

including associated maps 

downloadable from a Web site that has 

been established for this purpose: 

http://www.keystonepipelineXL.state.gov. This Web site will accept 

public comments for the record. 

Information on the Department of 

State Presidential Permit process can 

also be found at the above Internet 

address. The MLA and FLPMA 

application submitted to BLM will be on 

file at its office in Billings, Montana. 

A TransCanada hosted project Web 

site is also available at http:// 

www.transcanada.com/keystone/ 

kxl.html. The Keystone XL Project tollfree number is 1–866–717–7473 (United 

States and Canada). 

Dated: March 17, 2009. 

Daniel Fantozzi, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy, 

Office of International Oceans, 

Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. E9–6276 Filed 3–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 6554] 

Preparations for Holocaust Era Assets 

Conference—Town Hall Follow-up 

Meetings on Looted Art, Immovable 

Property and Holocaust Compensation 

Agreements 

The Special Envoy for Holocaust 

Issues at the Department of State is 

seeking information from interested 

individuals or organizations regarding 

the planned Conference on Holocaust 

Era Assets which will take place June 

26–30, 2009 in Prague. 

Hosted by the Government of the 

Czech Republic, the conference will 

address certain unresolved Holocaust 

asset issues, particularly Looted Art and 

Immovable Property. The conference 

schedule will also include a review of 

the Holocaust compensation agreements 

with Germany, Austria and France, and 

the work of the International 

Commission for Holocaust Insurance 

Claims (ICHEIC). 

The Department will host meetings at 

the Department of State (Harry S. 

Truman Building) on April 15 and 16 to 

hear the views of individuals, nongovernmental agencies and firms on 

these issues. The sessions on looted art 

and immovable property will be a 

follow-up to the March 2 meetings on 

those subjects. 

Those who wish to provide 

information to the State Department 

regarding those issues are invited to 

register and attend one or more of the 

following two-hour sessions: 

—April 15 at 9:45 a.m.: Holocaust 

Agreements on Compensation—a 

Stocktaking 

—April 16 at 9:45 a.m.: Looted Art 

—April 16 at 1:45 p.m.: Immovable 

Property 

Anyone wishing to attend any of these 

events should register separately for 

each by 5 p.m. April 10. There are space 

limitations. To register, send an e-mail 

no later than April 10 to Ms. JonesJohnson (Jones-JohnsonCD@state.gov) 

with the following information: 

Full Name: 

Date of Birth: 

Driver’s License Number, including 

State of Issuance, or 

Alternate Government-Issued Picture 

ID: 

Organization represented (if any), and 

its Address, & Phone Number: 

Home Address (only if attending as an 

individual): 

Name of Event(s) to be attended: 

Those who register are urged to arrive 

at the Department at least 15 minutes 

before the starting time for each event to 

allow time for security screening. Upon 

arrival, show security personnel a valid 

government-issued identification: for 

example, a U.S. state driver’s license or 

a passport. The official address of the 

State Department is 2201 C Street, NW., 

Washington, DC. For these events, 

however, participants must use the 

‘‘23rd Street Entrance’’ on the West Side 

of the State Department’s Harry S. 

Truman Building, located on 23rd Street 

between C Street and D Street NW., 

Washington, DC. 

Written submissions are welcome and 

should be sent to Ms. Jones-Johnson at 

the e-mail address cited above. 

Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy, 

Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. E9–6319 Filed 3–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 6555] 

Receipt of Request To Amend the 

Presidential Permit for an International 

Bridge on the U.S.-Mexico Border Near 

McAllen, TX, and Reynosa, 

Tamaulipas, Mexico 

AGENCY: Department of State. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State 

hereby gives notice that, on March 16, 

2009, it received from the chairman of 

the Anzalduas Bridge Board, acting on 

behalf of the mayors of McAllen, 

Hidalgo, and Mission, Texas, a request 

to amend the Presidential permit that 

the Department issued in 1999 for the 

Anzalduas international bridge on the 

U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, 

Texas and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, 

Mexico. The permittee proposes the 

removal of article 17 of the permit. 

Article 17 states that ‘‘[t]he permittee 

shall limit the initial hours of operation 

of the Anzalduas International Crossing 

to twelve hours per day, seven days per 

week for vehicular traffic.’’ 

According to the Bridge Board’s letter, 

the Department should amend the 

permit to remove article 17 so that the 

Department of Homeland Security’s 

Bureau of Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP), working with the 

Anzalduas Bridge Board and Mexican 

customs authorities, can set the hours of 

operation of the bridge in accordance 

with demand and available resources. 

The letter says that limiting the 

operations of the bridge to only twelve 

hours per day is impractical and 

insufficient, and notes that other 

international bridges along the 

international border with Mexico 

operate 18 or 24 hours per day. The 

request suggests that operational 

requirements should be set at the local 

level, rather than in the Presidential 

permit itself. 

The Department’s jurisdiction over 

this application is based upon Executive 

Order 11423 of August 16, 1968, as 

amended, and Article 1 of the 1999 

permit, which states that the permit 

‘‘may be amended by the Secretary of 

State or the Secretary’s delegate at will 

or upon proper application 

therefor.* * *’’ As provided in E.O. 

11423, the Department is circulating 

this application to relevant federal and 

state agencies for review and comment. 

Under E.O. 11423, the Department has 

the responsibility to determine, taking 

into account input from these agencies 

and other stakeholders, whether the 

proposed amendment of this 


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