49974 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 164 / Thursday, August 25, 2005 / Notices 

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 OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which currently is set at $1,200. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25).

as a unit. Therefore, there should not be 

any problem obtaining the appropriate 

replacement glazing. 

General Motors is correct that the four 

petitions it cited, from Western Star 

Trucks, Ford Motor Company, Toyota 

Motor Corporation, and Freightliner 

LLC, were granted by NHTSA based on 

this rationale. General Motors has 

corrected the problem. 

In consideration of the foregoing, 

NHTSA has decided that the petitioner 

has met its burden of persuasion that 

the noncompliance described is 

inconsequential to motor vehicle safety. 

Accordingly, General Motors’s petition 

is granted and the petitioner is 

exempted from the obligation of 

providing notification of, and a remedy 

for, the noncompliance.

Authority: (49 U.S.C. 30118, 30120; 

delegations of authority at CFR 1.50 and 

501.8)

Issued on: August 19, 2005. 

Ronald L. Medford, 

Senior Associate Administrator for Vehicle 

Safety.

[FR Doc. 05–16862 Filed 8–24–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub–No. 659X)] 

CSX Transportation, Inc.—

Abandonment Exemption—in Allegany 

County, MD 

CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), has 

filed a notice of exemption under 49 

CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments to abandon an 8.54-mile 

line of railroad on its Southern Region, 

Huntington Division East, Georges Creek 

Subdivision, between milepost BAI 27.0 

near Morrison and milepost BAI 18.46 

at the end of the track near Carlos, in 

Allegany County, MD. The line traverses 

United States Postal Service Zip Codes 

21532, 21539, and 21521. 

CSXT has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on 

the line can 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 

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 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 

September 24, 2005, 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 September 2, 2005. Petitions to 

reopen or requests for public use 

conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must 

be filed by September 14, 2005, with the 

Surface Transportation Board, 1925 K 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423–

0001.

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to CSXT’s 

representative: Louis E. Gitomer, Esq., 

Ball Janik LLP, 1455 F Street, NW., 

Suite 225, Washington, DC 20005. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio.

CSXT has filed environmental and 

historic reports which address the 

effects, if any, of the abandonment on 

the environment and historic resources. 

SEA will issue an environmental 

assessment (EA) by August 30, 2005. 

Interested persons may obtain a copy of 

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 500, 

Surface Transportation Board, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by 

calling SEA, at (202) 565–1539. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.] 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. 

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 authority 

granted and fully abandoned the line. If 

consummation has not been effected by 

CSXT’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by August 25, 2006, and 

there are no legal or regulatory barriers 

to consummation, the authority to 

abandon will automatically expire. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http://

www.stb.dot.gov.

Decided: August 18, 2005.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 05–16835 Filed 8–24–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service 

Third-Party Disclosure in IRS 

Regulations; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request for Regulation 

Project

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is 

soliciting comments concerning existing 

regulations, Third-Party Disclosure 

Requirements in IRS Regulations.

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before October 24, 2005 

to be assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Glenn P. Kirkland, Internal Revenue 

Service, room 6516, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the regulations should be 

directed to Allan Hopkins, at (202) 622–