28942 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 102 / Friday, May 25, 2001 / Notices

All members serve at their own expense,

and receive no salary, reimbursement of

travel expenses, or other compensation

from the Federal Government.

In support of the policy of the

Department of Transportation on gender

and ethnic diversity, the Coast Guard

encourages applications from qualified

women and members of minority

groups.

Dated: May 14, 2001.

Joseph J. Angelo,

Director of Standards, Marine Safety and

Environmental Protection.

[FR Doc. 01–13284 Filed 5–24–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

Environmental Impacts Statement San

Diego County, CA

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this

notice to advise the public that an

environmental impact statement will be

prepared for a proposed highway project

in Oceanside, San Diego County,

California.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeffrey Lewis, Senior Transportation

Engineer, Federal Highway

Administration, 980 9th Street, Suite

400, Sacramento, CA 95814–2724:

Telephone (916) 498–5035. Internet

address: Jeff.Lewis@fhwa.dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

FHWA, in cooperation with the

California Department of Transportation

and the City of Oceanside will prepare

an environmental impact statement

(EIS) on a proposal to construct an

interchange at State Route 78 and

Rancho Del Oro Drive in the City of

Oceanside.

The new interchange is considered

necessary to minimize existing and

future traffic congestion at adjacent

interchanges and arterial roadways in

Carlsbad and Oceanside. The proposed

project includes a new overcrossing

structure and four new ramp

connections from Rancho Del Oro Drive

to SR78. Alternatives under

consideration include the following: (1)

Taking no action; (2) construction of a

tight diamond interchange to connect

SR78 and Rancho Del Oro Drive; (3)

shifting the existing roadway and

constructing the new diamond

interchange to the north; (4)

construction of a tight diamond

interchange, shifted to the north with

Rancho Del Oro realigned to the west;

and (5) construction of an offset

diamond, located north of State Route

78 with a fly-over structure for on- and

off-ramps. All alternatives will

accommodate the addition of an

eastbound truck-climbing land between

El Camino Real and College Boulevard.

Letters describing the proposed action

and soliciting comments will be sent to

appropriate Federal, State, and local

agencies, and to private organizations

and citizens who have previously

expressed or are known to have interest

in this proposal. Public scoping

meetings are anticipated to be held at

appropriate locations in or near the

cities of Oceanside and/or Carlsbad in

summer/fall of 2001. After the draft EIS

is made available for public and agency

review, a public hearing will be held.

Public notice will be given of the time

and place of the public scoping

meetings and public hearing.

To ensure that the full range of issues

related to this proposed action are

addressed and all significant issues are

identified, comments and suggestions

are invited from all interested parties.

Comments or questions concerning this

proposed action and the EIS should be

directed to the FHWA at the address

provided above. The views of agencies

having knowledge about the historic

resources potentially affected by the

proposal or interested in the effects of

the project on historic properties are

solicited.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning

and Construction. The regulations

implementing Executive Order 12372

regarding intergovernmental consultation of

Federal programs and activities apply to this

program.)

Jeffery S. Lewis,

Senior Transportation Engineer, Sacramento,

California.

[FR Doc. 01–13212 Filed 5–24–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–22–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st

Century; Webcast for the National

Corridor Planning and Development

Program and the Coordinated Border

Infrastructure Program

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA); DOT.

ACTION: Notice of June 7, 2001 webcast

following solicitation of intent to apply

for fiscal year (FY) 2002 grants.

SUMMARY: This document provides

notice that the FHWA will host a

webcast following the May 7, 2001,

publication of a notice in the Federal

Register soliciting intent to apply for FY

2002 funds from the National Corridor

Planning and Development Program

(NCPD program) and the Coordinated

Border Infrastructure Program (CBI

program). Specific instructions on the

format and content of a statement of

intent to apply were provided in that

notice. The NCPD and the CBI programs

are discretionary grant programs funded

by a single funding source. These

programs provide funding for planning,

project development, construction and

operation of projects that serve border

regions near Mexico and Canada and

high priority corridors throughout the

United States.

DATES: The webcast will be held on June

7, 2001 from 1 pm until 3:30 pm.

ADDRESSES: The entry point for viewing

the webcast and information on asking

questions during the webcast are

available at the Midwest Resource

Center website whose office will operate

the webcast:

http://www.mrc.fhwa.dt.gov/theater/

A link to that site is available at the

NCPD/CBI program website:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/corbor/

corbor.html

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

program issues: Mr. Martin Weiss,

Office of Intermodal and Statewide

Programs, HEPS–10, (202) 366–5010; or

for legal issues: Mr. Robert Black, Office

of the Chief Counsel, HCC–30, (202)

366–1359; Federal Highway

Administration, 400 Seventh Street,

SW., Washington DC, 20590. For

webcast issues: Mr. Clayton Marcuson,

HRC–05, (708) 283–3593; Federal

Highway Administration, 19900

Governors Drive, Suite 301, Olympia

Fields, Illinois, 60461.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: States and

metropolitan planning organizations

(MPOs) are, under the NCPD program,

eligible for discretionary grants for:

Corridor feasibility; corridor planning;

multistate coordination; environmental

review; and construction. Border States

and MPOs are, under the CBI program,

eligible for discretionary grants for:

Transportation and safety infrastructure

improvements, operation and regulatory

improvements, and coordination and

safety inspection improvements in a

border region.

The webcast on June 7, 2001, will be

open to the public but is targeted to

officials of States and MPOs and those

expecting to work with such officials to

develop statements of intent to apply for

FY 2002 funding. The FHWA will begin

the webcast by providing additional

Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 102 / Friday, May 25, 2001 / Notices 28943

1The Board will grant a stay if an informed

decision on environmental issues (whether raised

by a party or by the Board’s Section of

Environmental Analysis (SEA) in its independent

investigation) cannot be made before the

exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any

request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible

so that the Board may take appropriate action before

the exemption’s effective date.

2Each offer of financial assistance must be

accompanied by the filing fee, which currently is

set at $1000. See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).

background on the history of the NCPD/

CBI program and on program

administration. Subsequently, a

question and answer session will be

held.

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 315; sec. 1118 and

1119, Pub.L. 105–178, 112 Stat. 107 at 161

(1998); and 49 CFR 1.48.

Issued on: May 18, 2001.

Vincent F. Schimmoller,

Deputy Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 01–13185 Filed 5–24–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

Petition for a Waiver of Compliance

In accordance with Title 49, Code of

Federal Regulations (CFR), sections

211.9 and 211.41, notice is hereby given

that the Federal Railroad

Administration (FRA) has received a

request for a waiver of compliance with

certain requirements of Federal railroad

safety regulations. The individual

petitions are described below, including

the party seeking relief, the regulatory

provisions involved, the nature of the

relief being requested and the

petitioner’s arguments in favor of relief.

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

[Docket Number FRA–2001–8888]

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

(TVRM) seeks to renew a waiver from

compliance with 49 CFR Part

240.201(d), which was originally

granted and became effective on

November 19, 1993, for a period of one

year. Specifically, the original waiver

allowed TVRM to operate without

complying with the requirement of 49

CFR Part 240.201(d), which provides

that only certified persons may operate

trains or locomotives. The waiver affects

only persons who participate in the

engineer charter ‘‘Engineer for a Day’’

program. The TVRM plans to conduct

this program on its own trackage from

Mile Post No. 0.00 East Chattanooga

Depot to Mile Post No. 3.0 Grand

Junction Depot, a distance of three

miles. Individuals participating in the

program would be allowed to operate

the train and experience the hands-on

duties of a locomotive engineer.

Interested parties are invited to

participate in these proceedings by

submitting written views, data, or

comments. FRA does not anticipate

scheduling a public hearing in

connection with these proceedings since

the facts do not appear to warrant a

hearing. If any interested party desires

an opportunity for oral comment, they

should notify FRA, in writing, before

the end of the comment period and

specify the basis for their request.

All communications concerning these

proceedings should identify the

appropriate docket number (e.g., Waiver

Petition Docket No. FRA–2001–8888)

and must be submitted to the Docket

Clerk, DOT Central Docket Management

Facility, Room PL–401, Nassif Building,

400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington,

D.C. 20590. Communications received

within 45 days of the date of the notice

will be considered by FRA before final

action is taken. Comments received after

that date will be considered as far as

practicable. All written communications

concerning these proceedings are

available for examination during regular

business hours at the above address. All

written communications are also

accessible on the Internet at http://

dms.dot.gov.

Issued in Washington D.C. on May 22,

2001.

Grady C. Cothen, Jr.,

Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety

Standards and Program Development.

[FR Doc. 01–13283 Filed 5–24–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub–No. 589X)]

CSX Transportation, Inc.—

Abandonment Exemption—in Logan

County, WV

CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) has

filed a notice of exemption under 49

CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt

Abandonments to abandon

approximately 1.63-mile line of its

railroad between milepost CMA 0.00 at

Stollings and milepost CMA 1.63 at Fort

Branch, in Logan County, WV. The line

traverses United States Postal Service

Zip Codes 25646 and 25076.

CSXT has certified that: (1) No local

traffic has moved over the line for at

least 2 years; (2) there is no overhead

traffic moving over the line; (3) no

formal complaint filed by a user of rail

service on the line (or by a state or local

government entity acting on behalf of

such user) regarding cessation of service

over the line either is pending with the

Surface Transportation Board (Board) or

with any U.S. District Court or has been

decided in favor of complainant within

the 2-year period; and (4) the

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7

(environmental reports), 49 CFR 1105.8

(historic reports), 49 CFR 1105.11

(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR

1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental

agencies) have been met.

As a condition to this exemption, any

employee adversely affected by the

abandonment and discontinuance shall

be protected under Oregon Short Line R.

Co.—Abandonment—Goshen, 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, this exemption will be

effective on June 26, 2001, unless stayed

pending reconsideration. Petitions to

stay that do not involve environmental

issues,1 formal expressions of intent to

file an OFA under 49 CFR

1152.27(c)(2),2 and trail use/rail banking

requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be

filed by June 4, 2001. Petitions to reopen

or requests for public use conditions

under 49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by

June 14, 2001, with: Surface

Transportation Board, Office of the

Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 K

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423.

A copy of any petition filed with the

Board should be sent to applicant’s

representative: Natalie S. Rosenberg,

Counsel, CSX Transportation, Inc., 500

Water Street J150, Jacksonville, FL

32202.

If the verified notice contains false or

misleading information, the exemption

is void ab initio.

CSXT has filed an environmental

report which addresses the

abandonment’s effects, if any, on the

environmental and historic resources.

SEA will issue an environmental

assessment (EA) by June 1, 2001.

Interested persons may obtain a copy of

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 500,

Surface Transportation Board,

Washington, DC 20423) or by calling

SEA, at (202) 565–1545. Comments on

environmental and historic preservation

matters must be filed within 15 days

after the EA becomes available to the

public.

Environmental, historic preservation,

public use, or trail use/rail banking

conditions will be imposed, where

appropriate, in a subsequent decision.