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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36604] 

Georgia Central Railway, L.P.—Lease 

and Operation Exemption—City of 

Vidalia, Ga. 

Georgia Central Railway, L.P. (GC), a 

Class III railroad, has filed a verified 

notice of exemption under 49 CFR 

1150.41 to replace a lease between GC 

and the City of Vidalia (the City) for GC 

to lease and operate as a common carrier 

over approximately 2.6 miles of track 

owned by the City beginning at milepost 

152.2 and extending to milepost 149.6 

(the Line). 

According to the verified notice, GC 

has been the sole operator providing 

local service on the Line since at least 

1997. GC states that the lease agreement 

(New Lease) supersedes and replaces 

the current lease, and GC will continue 

to lease and operate as the sole common 

carrier on the Line. 

GC certifies that the New Lease does 

not include an interchange 

commitment. It also certifies that its 

projected annual revenues from this 

transaction will not exceed those that 

would qualify it as a Class III carrier, but 

that its revenues currently exceed $5 

million. Pursuant to 49 CFR 1150.42(e), 

if a carrier’s projected annual revenues 

will exceed $5 million, it must, at least 

60 days before the exemption is to 

become effective, post a notice of its 

intent to undertake the proposed 

transaction at the workplace of the 

employees on the affected lines, serve a 

copy of the notice on the national 

offices of the labor unions with 

employees on the affected lines, and 

certify to the Board that it has done so. 

However, GC’s verified notice includes 

a request for waiver of the 60-day 

advance labor notice requirements. GC’s 

waiver request will be addressed in a 

subsequent decision. The Board will 

establish the effective date of the 

exemption in its separate decision on 

the waiver request. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the 

exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) 

may be filed at any time. The filing of 

a petition to revoke will not 

automatically stay the effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions for stay must 

be filed no later than May 18, 2022. 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

FD 36604, must be filed with the 

Surface Transportation Board either via 

e-filing on the Board’s website or in 

writing addressed to 395 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on GC’s representative, Justin 

J. Marks, Clark Hill PLC, 1001 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 1300 

South, Washington, DC 20004. 

According to GC, this action is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c) and from historic preservation 

reporting requirements under 49 CFR 

1105.8(b). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: May 6, 2022. 

By the Board, Valerie O. Quinn, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Brendetta Jones, 

Clearance Clerk. 

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BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket Number USTR–2022–0004] 

Annual Review of Country Eligibility 

for Benefits Under the African Growth 

and Opportunity Act 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the United 

States Trade Representative (USTR) is 

announcing the initiation of the annual 

review of the eligibility of the subSaharan African countries to receive the 

benefits of the African Growth and 

Opportunity Act (AGOA). The AGOA 

Implementation Subcommittee of the 

Trade Policy Staff Committee (AGOA 

TPSC Subcommittee) is developing 

recommendations for the President on 

AGOA country eligibility for calendar 

year 2023 and requests comments for 

this review. Due to the COVID–19 

pandemic, the AGOA TPSC 

Subcommittee will foster public 

participation via written submissions 

rather than an in-person hearing. This 

notice includes the schedule for 

submission of comments and responses 

to questions from the AGOA TPSC 

Subcommittee related to this review. 

DATES:

June 23, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. EDT: 

Deadline for submission of written 

comments on the eligibility of subSaharan African countries to receive the 

benefits of AGOA. 

July 7, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. EDT: 

Deadline for the AGOA TPSC 

Subcommittee to pose any questions on 

written comments. 

July 15, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. EDT: 

Deadline for submission of commenters’ 

responses to questions from the AGOA 

TPSC Subcommittee. 

July 22, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. EDT: 

Deadline for replies from other 

interested parties to the written 

comments and responses to the AGOA 

TPSC Subcommittee questions. 

August 3, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. EDT: 

The AGOA TPSC Subcommittee to pose 

any additional questions on written 

comments. 

August 12, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. EDT: 

Deadline for submission of responses to 

any additional questions from the 

AGOA TPSC Subcommittee. 

ADDRESSES: USTR strongly prefers 

electronic submissions made through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https:// 

www.regulations.gov (Regulations.gov), 

using Docket Number USTR–2022– 

0004. Follow the instructions for 

submitting comments in ‘Requirements 

for Submissions’ below. For alternatives 

to on-line submissions, please contact 

Jeremy Streatfeild, Director of African 

Affairs, Office of African Affairs, in 

advance of the relevant deadline at 

Jeremy.E.Streatfeild@ustr.eop.gov or 

(202) 395–8642. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeremy Streatfeild, Director of African 

Affairs, Office of African Affairs, at 

Jeremy.E.Streatfeild@ustr.eop.gov or 

(202) 395–8642. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

AGOA (Title I of the Trade and 

Development Act of 2000, Pub. L. 106– 

200) (19 U.S.C. 2466a et seq.), as 

amended, authorizes the President to 

designate sub-Saharan African countries 

as beneficiaries eligible for duty-free 

treatment for certain additional 

products not included for duty-free 

treatment under the Generalized System 

of Preferences (GSP) (Title V of the 

Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461 et 

seq.) (1974 Act), as well as for the 

preferential treatment for certain textile 

and apparel articles. The President may 

designate a country as a beneficiary subSaharan African country eligible for 

AGOA benefits if he determines that the 

country meets the eligibility criteria set 

forth in section 104 of AGOA (19 U.S.C. 

3703) and section 502 of the 1974 Act 

(19 U.S.C. 2462). 

Section 104 of AGOA includes 

requirements that the country has 

established or is making continual 

progress toward establishing, among 

other things: 

• A market-based economy 

• the rule of law 

• political pluralism 

• the right to due process 

• the elimination of barriers to U.S. 

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• economic policies to reduce poverty 

• a system to combat corruption and 

bribery 

• protection of internationally 

recognized worker rights 

In addition, the country may not 

engage in activities that undermine U.S. 

national security or foreign policy 

interests or engage in gross violations of 

internationally recognized human 

rights. Section 502 of the 1974 Act 

provides for country eligibility criteria 

under GSP. For a complete list of the 

AGOA eligibility criteria and more 

information on the GSP criteria, see 

section 104 of the AGOA and section 

502 of the 1974 Act. 

Section 506A of the 1974 Act requires 

the President to monitor and annually 

review the progress of each sub-Saharan 

African country in meeting the 

foregoing eligibility criteria in order to 

determine if a beneficiary sub-Saharan 

African country should continue to be 

eligible, and if a sub-Saharan African 

country that currently is not a 

beneficiary, should be designated as a 

beneficiary. If the President determines 

that a beneficiary sub-Saharan African 

country is not making continual 

progress in meeting the eligibility 

requirements, the President must 

terminate the designation of the country 

as a beneficiary sub-Saharan African 

country. The President also may 

withdraw, suspend, or limit the 

application of duty-free treatment with 

respect to specific articles from a 

country if they determine that it would 

be more effective in promoting 

compliance with AGOA eligibility 

requirements than terminating the 

designation of the country as a 

beneficiary sub-Saharan African 

country. 

For 2022 the President designated the 

following 36 countries as beneficiary 

sub-Saharan African countries: 

1. Angola 

2. Benin 

3. Botswana 

4. Burkina Faso 

5. Cabo Verde 

6. Central African Republic 

7. Chad 

8. Comoros 

9. Democratic Republic of Congo (reinstated in 2021) 

10. Republic of Congo 

11. Cote d’Ivoire 

12. Djibouti 

13. Eswatini 

14. Gabon 

15. The Gambia 

16. Ghana 

17. Guinea-Bissau 

18. Kenya 

19. Lesotho 

20. Liberia 

21. Madagascar 

22. Malawi 

23. Mauritius 

24. Mozambique 

25. Namibia 

26. Niger 

27. Nigeria 

28. Rwanda (AGOA apparel benefits 

suspended effective July 31, 2018) 

29. Sao Tome & Principe 

30. Senegal 

31. Sierra Leone 

32. South Africa 

33. Tanzania 

34. Togo 

35. Uganda 

36. Zambia 

The President did not designate the 

following sub-Saharan African countries 

as beneficiary sub-Saharan African 

countries for 2022: 

1. Burundi 

2. Cameroon 

3. Equatorial Guinea (graduated from 

GSP) 

4. Eritrea 

5. Ethiopia (terminated in 2022) 

6. Guinea (terminated in 2022) 

7. Mali (terminated in 2022) 

8. Mauritania 

9. Seychelles (graduated from GSP) 

10. Somalia 

11. South Sudan 

12. Sudan 

13. Zimbabwe 

The AGOA TPSC Subcommittee is 

seeking public comments to develop 

recommendations to the President in 

connection with the annual review of 

sub-Saharan African countries’ 

eligibility for AGOA benefits. The 

Secretary of Labor may consider 

comments related to the child labor 

criteria to prepare the U.S. Department 

of Labor’s report on child labor as 

required under section 504 of the 1974 

Act. 

II. Public Participation 

Due to the COVID–19 pandemic, the 

AGOA TPSC Subcommittee will foster 

public participation via written 

submissions rather than an in-person 

hearing for the 2023 AGOA Eligibility 

Review. USTR invites public comment 

according to the schedule set out in the 

Dates section above. The AGOA TPSC 

Subcommittee will review comments 

and replies to comments, if any, and 

may ask clarifying questions to 

commenters according to the schedule 

set out above. The AGOA TPSC 

Subcommittee will post the questions it 

asks on the public docket, other than 

questions that include properly 

designated business confidential 

information (BCI). Any questions that 

include properly designated BCI will 

not be posted on the docket for public 

viewing, but rather will be sent via 

email to the relevant commenters. 

Replies to these questions that also 

contain BCI must follow procedures laid 

out in section IV. 

III. Requirements for Submissions 

You must submit comments and 

answers to questions from the AGOA 

TPSC Subcommittee by the applicable 

deadlines set forth in this notice. You 

must make all submissions in English 

via Regulations.gov, using Docket 

Number USTR–2022–0004. USTR will 

not accept hand-delivered submissions. 

To make a submission using 

Regulations.gov, enter Docket Number 

USTR–2022–0004 in the ‘search for’ 

field on the home page and click 

‘search.’ The site will provide a search 

results page listing all documents 

associated with this docket. Find a 

reference to this notice by selecting 

‘notice’ under ‘document type’ in the 

‘refine documents results’ section on the 

left side of the screen and click on the 

link entitled ‘comment.’ The 

Regulations.gov website offers the 

option of providing comments by filling 

in a ‘comment’ field or by attaching a 

document using the ‘attach files’ field. 

The AGOA TPSC Subcommittee prefers 

that you provide submissions in an 

attached document and note ‘see 

attached’ in the ‘comment’ field on the 

online submission form. At the 

beginning of the submission, or on the 

first page (if an attachment) include the 

following text (in bold and underlined): 

(1) ‘‘2023 AGOA Eligibility Review’’; (2) 

the relevant country or countries; and 

(3) whether the document is a comment, 

a reply to a comment, or an answer to 

an AGOA Subcommittee question. 

Submissions should not exceed 30 

single-spaced, standard letter-size pages 

in 12-point type, including attachments. 

Include any data attachments to the 

submission in the same file as the 

submission itself, and not as separate 

files. You will receive a tracking number 

upon completion of the submission 

procedure at Regulations.gov. The 

tracking number is confirmation that 

Regulations.gov received the 

submission. Keep the confirmation for 

your records. USTR is not able to 

provide technical assistance for 

Regulations.gov. USTR may not 

consider documents that you do not 

submit in accordance with these 

instructions. If you are unable to 

provide submissions as requested, 

please contact Jeremy Streatfeild, 

Director of African, Office of African 

Affairs, in advance of the relevant 


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deadline at Jeremy.E.Streatfeild@

ustr.eop.gov or (202) 395–8642, to 

arrange for an alternative method of 

transmission. 

General information concerning USTR 

is available at www.ustr.gov. 

IV. Business Confidential Submissions 

If you ask USTR to treat information 

you submitted as BCI, you must certify 

that the information is business 

confidential and you would not 

customarily release it to the public. You 

must clearly designate BCI by marking 

the submission ‘BUSINESS 

CONFIDENTIAL’ at the top and bottom 

of the cover page and each succeeding 

page, and indicating, via brackets, the 

specific information that is BCI. 

Additionally, you must note that the 

submission contains information that is 

business confidential by including 

‘Business Confidential’ in the ‘comment’ 

field. For any submission containing 

BCI, you must separately submit a nonconfidential version, i.e., not as part of 

the same submission with the 

confidential version, indicating where 

BCI has been redacted. USTR will post 

the non-confidential version in the 

docket and it will be open to public 

inspection. 

V. Public Viewing of Review 

Submissions 

USTR will make public versions of all 

documents relating to these reviews 

available for public viewing pursuant to 

15 CFR 2017.4, in Docket Number 

USTR–2022–0004 on Regulations.gov, 

upon completion of processing. This 

usually is within two weeks of the 

relevant due date or date of the 

submission. 

VI. Petitions 

At any time, any interested party may 

submit a petition to USTR with respect 

to whether a beneficiary sub-Saharan 

African country is meeting the AGOA 

eligibility requirements. An interested 

party may file a petition through 

Regulations.gov, under Docket Number 

USTR–2022–0004. 

William Shpiece, 

Chair of the Trade Policy Staff Committee, 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative. 

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BILLING CODE 3290–F2–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions 

on Proposed Highway in California 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of Limitation on Claims 

for Judicial Review of Actions by the 

California Department of Transportation 

(Caltrans) and the United States Forest 

Service (Plumas National Forest) to 

issue a special use permit to Caltrans. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA, on behalf of 

Caltrans, is issuing this notice to 

announce actions taken by Caltrans that 

are final. The actions relate to a 

proposed highway project, State Route 

82, postmiles 12.3 to 15.9, in the County 

San Mateo, State of California. Those 

actions grant licenses, permits, and 

approvals for the project. 

DATES: By this notice, the FHWA, on 

behalf of Caltrans, is advising the public 

of final agency actions subject to 23 

U.S.C. 139(l)(1). A claim seeking 

judicial review of the Federal agency 

actions on the highway project will be 

barred unless the claim is filed on or 

before October 11, 2022. If the Federal 

law that authorizes judicial review of a 

claim provides a time period of less 

than 150 days for filing such claim, then 

that shorter time period still applies. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

Caltrans District 4: Yolanda Rivas, 

Senior Environmental Planner, Caltrans 

Office of Environmental Planning and 

Engineering, California Department of 

Transportation—District 4, 111 Grand 

Avenue, Oakland, CA 95901. Office 

Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Pacific 

Standard Time, telephone (510) 506– 

1461 or email yolanda.rivas@dot.ca.gov. 

For FHWA, contact Shawn Oliver at 

(916) 498–5048 or email Shawn.Oliver@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective 

July 1, 2007, the Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) assigned, and 

the California Department of 

Transportation (Caltrans) assumed, 

environmental responsibilities for this 

project pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327. 

Notice is hereby given that Caltrans has 

taken final agency actions subject to 23 

U.S.C. 139(l)(1) by issuing licenses, 

permits, and approvals for the following 

highway project in the State of 

California: Remove and reconstruct 

entire roadway pavement structural 

section between East Santa Inez (PM 

12.3) and Murchison Drive (PM 15.8). A 

total of 34 new drainage inlets would be 

installed, and 25 existing drainage inlets 

would be modified to conform to 

changes to curb ramps. All existing 

reinforced concrete pipes, clay pipes, 

and metal pipes smaller than 18 inches 

would be replaced with 18-inch 

polyvinyl chloride pipes. All existing 

sidewalks from East Santa Inez Avenue 

(PM 12.3) to Dufferin Avenue (PM 15.3) 

would be upgraded, ranging from 5 to 6 

feet in width, to comply with ADA 

standards. Other pedestrian 

improvements include touch-free APS 

and CPS at signalized intersections, 

pedestrian hybrid beacons at 

uncontrolled intersections, realignment 

of existing crosswalks, advance stop 

pavement markings, adjustments to 

signal timing to provide for a leading 

pedestrian interval. Two design options 

regarding utilities are being evaluated 

(1) Utility poles would be removed and 

relocated at various locations 

throughout the project limits to conform 

to infrastructure upgrades, or (2) 

existing electrical transmission, 

telecommunications, and cable TV lines 

that currently run along poles above the 

roadway would be relocated 

underground from Barroilhet Avenue 

(PM 12.9) to Ray Drive/Rosedale 

Avenue (PM 15.2). The actions by the 

Federal agencies, and the laws under 

which such actions were taken, are 

described in the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) approved on 

April 20, 2022, and in other documents 

in the Caltrans’ project records. The 

FEIS and other project records are 

available by contacting Caltrans at the 

addresses provided above. The Caltrans 

FEIS can be viewed and downloaded 

from www.ecralternatives.com. This 

notice applies to all Federal agency 

decisions as of the issuance date of this 

notice and all laws under which such 

actions were taken, including but not 

limited to: 

1. Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations (40 CFR 1500 et seq., 23 CFR 

771); 

2. National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.; 

3. Federal-Aid Highway Act, (23 U.S.C. 

109, as amended by FAST Act Section 

1404(a), Public Law 114–94, and 23 U.S.C. 

128); 

4. MAP–21, the Moving Ahead for Progress 

in the 21st Century Act (Pub. L. 112–141); 

5. Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 

7401 et seq. (Transportation Conformity, 40 

CFR part 93); 

6. Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. 1251 

et seq.); 

7. Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 

1972 (see Clean Water Act of 1977 & 1987); 

8. Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, Public Law 94–579; 

9. Noise Control Act of 1972; 

10. Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended 

(42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.); 


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