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1Persons interested in submitting an OFA must 

first file a formal expression of intent to file an 

offer, indicating the type of financial assistance they 

wish to provide (i.e., subsidy or purchase) and 

demonstrating that they are preliminarily 

financially responsible. See 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2)(i). 

2The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental 

Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation) 

cannot be made before the exemption’s effective 

date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. 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. 

3Filing fees for OFAs and trail use requests can 

be found at 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25) and (27), 

respectively. 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the time and cost burden for 

this proposed collection, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the reporting burden on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted 

in response to this Notice are public 

record. Before including any detailed 

personal information, you should be 

aware that your comments as submitted, 

including your personal information, 

will be available for public review. 

Abstract of Proposed Collection 

Pursuant to Part 122 of the 

International Traffic in Arms Regulation 

(ITAR), and section 38 of the Arms 

Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. 2778, any 

person who engages in the United States 

in the business of manufacturing or 

exporting or temporarily importing 

defense articles or furnishing defense 

services is required to register with the 

Department of State, Directorate of 

Defense Trade Controls (DDTC). 

Pursuant to Part 129 of the ITAR, any 

U.S. person wherever located, and any 

foreign person located in the United 

States or otherwise subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States, who 

engages in the business of brokering 

activities, is required to register with 

DDTC. DDTC uses the information 

provided by registrants to meet the 

mandates described in Part 122 and Part 

129 of the ITAR. As appropriate, such 

information may be shared with other 

U.S. Government entities. This 

information is currently used in the 

review and action on registration 

requests and to ensure compliance with 

defense trade laws and regulations. 

Methodology 

Statement of Registration submissions 

are made via a completed DS–2032 

which may be accessed from DDTC’s 

website and submitted electronically. 

Michael F. Miller, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, PM/DDTC, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11483 Filed 5–26–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–25–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 314 (Sub-No. 9X)] 

Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad 

Company—Abandonment Exemption— 

in Black Hawk County, Iowa 

Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad 

Company (CCP) has filed a verified 

notice of exemption under 49 CFR part 

1152 subpart F—Exempt Abandonments 

to abandon an approximately 0.08-mile 

segment of rail line, totaling 

approximately 419 feet, situated from 

approximately 100 feet east of the CCP 

crossing with 11th Street at the location 

of the point of switch turnout through 

and including 51 feet of track in the 

11th Street crossing and continuing 

west to the end of the line 

approximately 268 feet, in Waterloo, 

Black Hawk County, Iowa (the Line). 

The Line traverses U.S. Postal Service 

Zip Code 50703. 

CCP has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the Line for at 

least two years; (2) there is no overhead 

traffic on the Line that cannot be 

rerouted over other lines; (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 a complainant 

within the two-year period; and (4) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(b) and 

1105.8(c) (notice of environmental and 

historic reports), 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 shall be protected under 

Oregon Short Line Railroad— 

Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch 

Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & 

Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 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,1

this exemption will be effective on June 

26, 2022, unless stayed pending 

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do 

not involve environmental issues,2

formal expressions of intent to file an 

OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2), and 

interim trail use/rail banking requests 

under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be filed by 

June 6, 2022.3 Petitions to reopen and 

requests for public use conditions under 

49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by June 

16, 2022. 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

AB 314 (Sub-No. 9X), 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 CCP’s representative, 

Audrey E. Lane, Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 

29 North Wacker Drive, Suite 800, 

Chicago, IL 60606. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

CCP has filed a combined 

environmental and historic report that 

addresses the potential effects, if any, of 

the abandonment on the environment 

and historic resources. OEA will issue a 

Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft 

EA) by June 3, 2022. The Draft EA will 

be available to interested persons on the 

Board’s website, by writing to OEA, or 

by calling OEA at (202) 245–0294. 

Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal Relay 

Service at (800) 877–8339. Comments 

on environmental or historic 

preservation matters must be filed 

within 15 days after the Draft 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. 

Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR 

1152.29(e)(2), CCP shall file a notice of 

consummation with the Board to signify 

that it has exercised the authority 

granted and fully abandoned the Line. If 

consummation has not been effected by 

CCP’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by May 27, 2023, and 

there are no legal or regulatory barriers 

to consummation, the authority to 

abandon will automatically expire. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 


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Decided: May 23, 2022. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Aretha Laws-Byrum, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11400 Filed 5–26–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36594] 

Texas Coastal Bend Railroad, L.L.C.— 

Change in Operator Exemption— 

Corpus Christi Terminal Railroad, Inc. 

Texas Coastal Bend Railroad, L.L.C. 

(TCBR), a noncarrier, has filed a verified 

notice of exemption pursuant to 49 CFR 

1150.31 to assume operation of 

approximately 12.0 miles of rail line 

owned by the Port of Corpus Christi 

Authority of Nueces County, Tex. (the 

Port), located on the north and south 

sides of the Inner Harbor of the Corpus 

Christi Ship Channel, which runs 

parallel with the south shoreline of 

Nueces Bay (the Line). Incidental to the 

proposed operation of the Port-owned 

Line, TCBR will acquire overhead 

trackage rights over a connecting Union 

Pacific Railroad Company (UP) line 

extending between approximately UP 

milepost 140.5 near the west leg of the 

Fulton Wye Connection and 

approximately UP milepost 149.0, all in 

Nueces County, Tex. Corpus Christi 

Terminal Railroad, Inc. (CCTR) 

currently operates the Line under a 

lease with the Port and has done so 

since 1997. See Corpus Christi Terminal 

R.R.—Lease & Operation Exemption— 

Port of Corpus Christi Auth. of Nueces 

Cnty., Tex., FD 33436 (STB served Aug. 

14, 1997). 

According to the verified notice, 

TCBR has entered into an agreement 

with the Port under which TCBR will 

replace CCTR as the common carrier on 

the Line. TCBR states that CCTR does 

not object to the proposed change in 

common carrier operator on the Line. 

Based on projected annual revenues for 

the Line, TCBR expects to become a 

Class III rail carrier after consummation 

of the proposed transaction. 

This transaction is related to a 

concurrently filed verified notice in 

Watco Holdings—Continuance in 

Control Exemption—Texas Coastal 

Bend Railroad, Docket No. FD 36595, in 

which Watco Holdings, Inc., seeks to 

continue in control of TCBR upon 

TCBR’s becoming a Class III rail carrier. 

As required under 49 CFR 

1150.33(h)(1), TCBR certifies that the 

agreements governing this transaction 

do not include any provision or 

agreement that may limit future 

interchange with a third-party 

connecting carrier. 

TCBR certifies that its projected 

annual revenues as a result of the 

transaction will not result in the 

creation of a Class I or Class II rail 

carrier but also states that it expects its 

annual revenues to exceed $5 million 

following the transaction. Pursuant to 

49 CFR 1150.32(e), if a carrier’s 

projected annual revenues will exceed 

$5 million, it must, at least 60 days 

before the exemption becomes 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. TCBR states that it complied 

with the advance notice posting 

requirements of 49 CFR 1150.32(e) on 

March 21, 2022, and that TCBR has been 

advised that no labor union represents 

CCTR employees and that the Port has 

no employees that conduct rail 

operations on the Line. 

Under 49 CFR 1150.32(b), a change in 

operator exemption requires that notice 

be given to shippers. TCBR certifies that 

it has provided notice of the proposed 

change in operator to the shippers on 

the Line. 

The transaction may be consummated 

on or after June 12, 2022, the effective 

date of the exemption (30 days after the 

verified notice was filed). 

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 June 3, 2022 (at 

least seven days before the exemption 

becomes effective). 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

FD 36594, 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 TCBR’s representative, 

Robert A. Wimbish, Fletcher & Sippel 

LLC, 29 North Wacker Drive, Suite 800, 

Chicago, IL 60606–3208. 

According to TCBR, this action is 

categorically excluded from historic 

preservation reporting requirements 

under 49 CFR 1105.8(b) and from 

environmental reporting requirements 

under 49 CFR 1105.6(c). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: May 24, 2022. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Regena Smith-Bernard, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11464 Filed 5–26–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36595] 

Watco Holdings, Inc.—Continuance in 

Control Exemption—Texas Coastal 

Bend Railroad, L.L.C. 

Watco Holdings, Inc. (Watco), a 

noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2) to 

continue in control of Texas Coastal 

Bend Railroad, L.L.C. (TCBR), a 

noncarrier controlled by Watco, upon 

TCBR’s becoming a Class III rail carrier. 

This transaction is related to a 

verified notice of exemption filed 

concurrently in Texas Coastal Bend 

Railroad—Change in Operator 

Exemption—Corpus Christi Terminal 

Railroad, Docket No. FD 36594, in 

which TCBR seeks to assume operation 

of approximately 12.0 miles of rail line 

owned by the Port of Corpus Christi 

Authority of Nueces County, Tex. (the 

Port), located on the north and south 

sides of the Inner Harbor of the Corpus 

Christi Ship Channel, along with 

incidental trackage rights. 

The transaction may be consummated 

on or after June 12, 2022, the effective 

date of the exemption (30 days after the 

verified notice was filed). 

According to the verified notice, 

Watco currently controls 42 Class III 

railroads and one Class II railroad, 

collectively operating in 28 states. For a 

complete list of these rail carriers and 

the states in which they operate, see the 

Appendix to Watco’s May 13, 2022 

verified notice of exemption, available 

at www.stb.gov. 

Watco represents that: (1) The rail line 

to be operated by TCBR does not 

connect with the rail lines of any of the 

rail carriers currently controlled by 

Watco; (2) this transaction is not part of 

a series of anticipated transactions that 

would connect TCBR with any railroad 

in the Watco corporate family; and (3) 

the transaction does not involve a Class 

I rail carrier. The proposed transaction 

is therefore exempt from the prior 

approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 

11323 pursuant to 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2). 

Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board 

may not use its exemption authority to 

relieve a rail carrier of its statutory 

obligation to protect the interests of its 

employees. Because the transaction 


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