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name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you 

may visit http://www.regulations.gov/ 

search/index.jsp. 

Authority: 49 CFR 1.66. 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Dated: March 30, 2009. 

Leonard Sutter, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. E9–7686 Filed 4–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Finance Docket No. 34836] 

Arizona Eastern Railway— 

Construction and Operation—Graham 

County, AZ 

AGENCIES: Lead: Surface Transportation 

Board. Cooperating: Federal Railroad 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Post 

Environmental Assessment. 

SUMMARY: On August 4, 2006, the 

Arizona Eastern Railway (AZER) filed a 

petition with the Surface Transportation 

Board (Board) seeking an exemption 

under 49 United States Code (U.S.C.) 

10502 from prior approval requirements 

of 49 U.S.C. 10901 for authority to 

construct and operate 12 miles of new 

rail line in Graham County, Arizona 

(AZ). The Board, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 

10901, is the agency responsible for 

granting authority for the construction 

and operation of new rail line facilities. 

On February 25, 2008, the Board’s 

Section of Environmental Analysis 

(SEA) and the Federal Railroad 

Administration, a cooperating agency, 

issued an Environmental Assessment 

(EA) in this proceeding. The EA was 

made available to agencies, the public, 

and interested parties for a 36-day 

public comment period. The Board 

extended the comment period by 

another 30 days to May 1, 2008 in 

response to stakeholders’ requests. SEA 

received 25 comments on the EA. The 

Post EA responds to those comments 

and makes final environmental 

recommendations to the Board. 

Based on its independent analysis of 

all information available to date, SEA 

concludes that the Applicant’s Proposed 

Action would not result in any 

significant environmental impacts if the 

mitigation measures recommended in 

this Post EA are imposed and 

implemented. Accordingly, SEA 

recommends that any decision by the 

Board approving the proposed 

construction and operation of the 

Proposed Action should be contingent 

upon AZER complying with the 

mitigation set forth in Chapter 1 of the 

Post EA. SEA recommends 40 

mitigation measures in the Post EA that 

are either new mitigation measures 

based on SEA’s additional analysis or 

modifications of the 39 mitigation 

measures previously proposed in the 

EA. These conditions, which SEA 

developed in response to comments and 

additional analysis, address a broad 

range of issues including traffic safety, 

flooding impacts, and the transportation 

and handling of hazardous materials. 

Because the Proposed Action, as 

mitigated, would not have the potential 

for significant environmental effects, 

preparation of an EA for this case is 

appropriate and the full Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) process is 

unnecessary. 

The Board will now consider the 

entire environmental record, including 

SEA’s final recommended mitigation 

measures and all environmental 

comments received in this proceeding, 

in making its final decision as to 

whether to approve the Proposed 

Action, and if so, what mitigation to 

impose. 

Copies of the Post EA have been 

served on all interested parties and will 

be made available to additional parties 

upon request. The entire EA is also 

available for review on the Board’s Web 

site (http://www.stb.dot.gov) by clicking 

on the ‘‘Decisions and Notices’’ link, 

then ‘‘E-LIBRARY’’ and searching by the 

Service Date (February 25, 2008 and 

April 6, 2009) or Docket Number (FD 

34836). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diana Wood, SEA Project Manager, at 

(202) 245–0302; e-mail: 

woodd@stb.dot.gov. Federal Information 

Relay Service for the hearing impaired: 

1–800–877–8339. 

Decided: April 6, 2009. 

By the Board, Victoria Rutson, Chief, 

Section of Environmental Analysis. 

Kulunie L. Cannon, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. E9–7561 Filed 4–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Ex Parte No. 519 (Sub-No. 4)] 

Notice of National Grain Car Council 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. 

ACTION: Notice of National Grain Car 

Council meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of a 

meeting of the National Grain Car 

Council (NGCC), pursuant to section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, Public Law No. 92–463, 

as amended (5 U.S.C., App. 2). 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, June 2, 2009, beginning at 10 

a.m. and is expected to conclude at 3 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Headquarters of Bunge North 

America, Inc., 11701 Borman Drive— 

2nd Floor, St. Louis, MO 63146. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Brugman at (202) 245–0281. [Assistance 

for the hearing impaired is available 

through the Federal Information Relay 

Service (FIRS) at: (800) 877–8339]. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NGCC 

arose from a proceeding instituted by 

the Surface Transportation Board’s 

(Board) predecessor agency, the 

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 

in National Grain Car Supply— 

Conference of Interested Parties, Ex 

Parte No. 519. The NGCC was formed as 

a working group to facilitate privatesector solutions and recommendations 

to the ICC (and now the Board) on 

matters affecting grain transportation. 

The general purpose of this meeting is 

to discuss rail carrier preparedness to 

transport the 2009 Fall grain harvest. 

Agenda items include the following: 

Remarks by Board Chairman Frank 

Mulvey and Vice-Chairman Charles 

Nottingham (who serves as CoChairman for the NGCC), member and 

new member introductions, reports by 

rail carriers and shippers on grainservice related issues, a report by rail 

car manufacturers and lessors on 

current and future availability of various 

grain-car types, and an open forum on 

the impact of current Federal regulation 

on grain car supply. A more detailed 

agenda for this meeting will be posted 

on the Board’s Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

The meeting, which is open to the 

public, will be conducted pursuant to 

the NGCC’s charter and Board 

procedures. Further communications 

about this meeting may be announced 


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