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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 exemptions’ 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 exemptions’ 

effective date. 

3Filing fees for OFAs and trail use requests can 

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

respectively. 

abandon, and MMRR to discontinue 

service over, an approximately 3.81- 

mile rail line that runs between 

milepost CGCS 56.35 and milepost 

CGCS 60.16 on the South Horn Spur in 

Muskegon County, Mich. (the Line). 

CSXT is the owner of the Line, and 

MMRR is the lessee of the Line. The 

Line traverses U.S. Postal Service Zip 

Code 49441. 

Applicants have certified that: (1) no 

local traffic has moved over the Line for 

at least two years; (2) as the Line is not 

a through line, no overhead traffic has 

moved over the Line and therefore no 

traffic needs to be rerouted; (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 two-year period; and (4) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7 and 

1105.8 (notice of environmental and 

historic report), 49 CFR 1105.12 

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR 

1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental 

agencies) have been met. 

As a condition to these exemptions, 

any employee adversely affected by the 

abandonment and discontinuance of 

service 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 the 

exemptions will be effective on August 

10, 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 

July 21, 2022.3 Petitions to reopen and 

requests for public use conditions under 

49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by August 

1, 2022. 

All pleadings, referring to Docket Nos. 

AB 55 (Sub-No. 807X) and AB 364 (SubNo. 17X), must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board 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 CSXT’s 

representative, Louis E. Gitomer, Law 

Offices of Louis E. Gitomer, LLC, 600 

Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301, Towson, 

MD 21204, and MMRR’s representative, 

Eric M. Hocky, Clark Hill PLC, 2001 

Market Street, Suite 2610, Philadelphia, 

PA 19103. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemptions 

are void ab initio. 

Applicants have 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 July 15, 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 and historic 

preservation matters must be filed 

within 15 days after the Draft EA 

becomes available to the public. 

Environmental, historic preservation, 

public use, or interim 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), CSXT shall file a notice of 

consummation with the Board to signify 

that it has exercised the abandonment 

authority granted and fully abandoned 

the Line. If consummation has not been 

effected by CSXT’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by July 11, 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. 

Decided: July 6, 2022. 

By the Board, Mai T. Dinh, Director, Office 

of Proceedings. 

Kenyatta Clay, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14711 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. 2022–0176] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewal Approval of 

Information Collection 2120–0776, 

Airspace Authorizations in Controlled 

Airspace 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to renew Information 

Collection 2120–0776. The Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day comment 

period soliciting comments on the 

following collection of information was 

published on February 18, 2022. The 

FAA proposes renewal of the collection 

of information related to requests to 

operate small Unmanned Aircraft 

Systems (sUAS) in controlled airspace. 

FAA will use the collected information 

to make determinations whether to 

authorize or deny the requested 

authorization of sUAS operation in 

controlled airspace. The proposed 

information collection is necessary to 

issue such authorizations or denials 

consistent with the FAA’s mandate to 

ensure safe and efficient use of national 

airspace. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by August 10, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Victoria Gallagher by email at: 

Victoria.Gallagher@faa.gov; phone: 

609–485–5127. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA 

received three comments from the 

public. Two were supportive. The first 

was anonymous and expressed approval 

of the collection. The second supportive 

comment was from Airlines for 

America, which noted that the 

collection of such information can be 

used in furtherance of the FAA’s 

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integration of UAS operations in the 

National Airspace System (NAS). 

Airlines for America commented that 

FAA must ensure adequate safety 

precautions to avoid collisions of UAS 

with manned aircraft and that the 

proposed collection will help identify 

compliant from noncompliant 

operations and further this safety model. 

The final comment was from the Air 

Line Pilots Association, International 

(ALPA), which commented that the 

collection of information to process 

authorization requests has not been 

subject to sufficient safety risk 

evaluation and therefore cannot be fully 

determined whether the information 

collected is adequate to verify if safe 

operations can be conducted. Further, 

ALPA commented that it believes the 

FAA’s current minimum requirements 

for information in a Low Altitude 

Authorization and Notification 

Capability (LAANC) application are not 

sufficient. According to ALPA, 

additional information including 

aircraft registration, make and model 

information, and post-flight information 

should be collected. In this Information 

Collection renewal request, the FAA 

proposes to use LAANC and the web 

portal to collect information that 

provides a means for small UAS 

operators operating under § 44809 to 

comply with § 44809’s established 

requirements and safety processes. This 

proposed information collection is 

sufficient to meet safety standards and 

captures essential information. 

ALPA also commented that the FAA 

has not determined through its Safety 

Management System process the risk 

that UAS operating in controlled 

airspace introduce to the NAS and, 

therefore, ALPA is unable to determine 

if the information collected is adequate. 

This second category of comments is 

substantially the same as comments that 

ALPA submitted in response to 

Information Collection 2120–0768’s 60 

Day Notice published on February 12, 

2018 (83 FR 6082) and to the Notice of 

Proposed Rule Making that was 

eventually implemented as a final rule 

at 81 FR 42063 on June 28, 2016 and 

codified as 14 CFR part 107. The FAA 

analyzed the proposed information to be 

collected under § 44809 and determined 

that the information is adequate for the 

FAA to meet safety standards. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for FAA’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (d) 

ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. The agency 

will summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0776. 

Title: Airspace Authorizations in 

Controlled Airspace under 49 U.S.C. 

44809(a)(5). 

Form Numbers: There are no forms 

associated with this collection. 

Type of Review: Renewal of existing 

Information Collection. 

Background: There has been an 

increased number of small UAS 

operating in the NAS in recent years, 

and regulations and statutes have been 

enacted to establish the use of small 

UAS in the NAS. Included in these is 49 

U.S.C. 44809(a)(5), which states that a 

strictly recreational user of small UAS 

must have authorization from the FAA 

to fly a small UAS ‘‘in Class B, Class C, 

or Class D airspace or within the lateral 

boundaries of the surface areas of Class 

E airspace designated for an airport.’’ In 

order to process airspace authorization 

requests, the FAA requires the 

operator’s name, the operator’s contact 

information, and information related to 

the date, place, and time of the 

requested authorization, which can be 

up to twelve hours in length. This 

information is necessary for the FAA to 

meet its statutory mandate of 

maintaining a safe and efficient national 

airspace. See 49 U.S.C. 40103, 44701, 

and 44807. The FAA will use the 

requested information to determine if 

the proposed authorization to operate 

can be conducted safely. 

The FAA proposes to use LAANC and 

an FAA web portal to process 

authorization requests from the public 

to conduct flight operations under 49 

U.S.C. 44809(a)(5). 

Respondents: Small UAS operators 

seeking to conduct flight operations 

under 49 U.S.C. 44809(a)(5) within 

controlled airspace. Between 2022– 

2025, the FAA estimates that it will 

receive a total of 757,380 requests for 

airspace authorization (735,416 through 

LAANC and 21,964 through the web 

portal). 

Frequency: The requested information 

is necessary each time a respondent 

requests an airspace authorization to 

operate a small UAS under 49 U.S.C. 

44809(a)(5) in controlled airspace. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: The FAA estimates the 

respondents using LAANC will take five 

(5) minutes per airspace authorization 

request and those using the web portal 

will take thirty (30) minutes per request. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: For 

airspace authorizations, the FAA 

estimates that the average annual 

burden will be 24,089 burden hours. 

This includes 20,428 burden hours for 

245,139 LAANC respondents and 3,661 

burden hours for 7,321 web portal 

respondents. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July, 5 2022. 

Victoria Gallagher, 

UAS LAANC Program Manager, AJM–337. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14640 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Acceptance of a Noise 

Exposure Map and Review of a Noise 

Compatibility Program 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

determination that the noise exposure 

map submitted by the Port Authority of 

New York and New Jersey for LaGuardia 

Airport is in compliance with 

applicable statutory and regulatory 

requirements, see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for details. Further, in 

conjunction with the noise exposure 

map, FAA is reviewing the proposed 

noise compatibility program for 

LaGuardia Airport, which the FAA will 

approve or disapprove on or before 

January 2, 2023. This notice also 

announces the availability of this noise 

compatibility program for public review 

and comment. 

DATES: The effective date of the FAA’s 

determination on the noise exposure 

map is June 16, 2022 and of the start of 

its review of the associated noise 

compatibility program is July 6, 2022. 

The public comment period ends 

September 4, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Brooks, Regional 

Environmental Program Manager, 

Airports Division, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 1 Aviation Plaza, Room 

516, Jamaica, NY 11434. Phone Number: 

718–553–2511. Comments on the 

proposed noise compatibility program 

should also be submitted to the above 

office. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA finds 

that the revised 2021 noise exposure 

map (NEM) submitted for LaGuardia 

Airport is in compliance with 

applicable requirements of Title 14, 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

150, (14 CFR part 150) effective June 16, 

2022. Further, FAA is reviewing a 

proposed noise compatibility program 


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