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1CSXT received discontinuance authority over 

the involved line segment in CSX Transportation, 

Inc.—Discontinuance Exemption—in Marion 

County, WV, Docket No. AB–55 (Sub–No. 376X) 

(ICC served Apr. 4, 1991). 

Procedures 

1. These emergency procedures will 

only be in effect for a period not to 

exceed nine (9) months from the date of 

publication of this document, unless 

later extended. 

2. The procedures will only be used 

to address petitions for waivers that 

FRA determines are directly related to 

hurricane Katrina. Petitions submitted 

to FRA should specifically address how 

the petition is related to the aftermath 

of the hurricane or related relief efforts. 

3. Any relief granted through these 

emergency procedures will only be 

effective for the nine (9) month period 

that these emergency procedures remain 

in place. 

4. FRA has created the Emergency 

Relief Docket FRA–2005–22365 in the 

publicly accessible Department of 

Transportation (DOT) Document 

Management System (DMS). The docket 

can be accessed 24 hours a day, seven 

days a week, via the Internet at the 

docket facility’s Web site at http:// 

dms.dot.gov. All documents in this 

docket are available for inspection and 

copying on the Web site or are available 

for examination at the DOT Docket 

Management Facility, Room PL–401 

(Plaza Level), 400 7th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590 during regular 

business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.). The 

DMS internet site also allows any 

interested party to subscribe, without 

fee, to its list serve application which 

will automatically notify the party via 

e-mail when documents are added to 

the Emergency Relief Docket (FRA–

2005–22365). 

5. Upon receipt and initial review of 

a petition for waiver, to verify that it 

meets the criteria for use of these 

emergency procedures, FRA will add 

the petition to the Emergency Relief 

Docket (FRA–2005–22365). (If FRA 

determines that a petition meets the 

criteria for use of the emergency 

procedures it will so notify the 

petitioning party). The DMS numbers 

each document that is added to a 

docket. For example, the first document 

submitted to the docket will be 

identified as FRA–2005–22365–1. Thus, 

each petition submitted to the 

Emergency Relief Docket will have a 

unique document number which should 

be identified on all communications 

related to petitions contained in this 

docket. 

6. FRA will allow a 72-hour comment 

period from the time the petition is 

entered into and available on the DMS. 

Any comment received after that period 

will be considered to the extent 

practicable. 

7. Interested parties will be given 

multiple methods by which they may 

submit views, data or comment. All 

communications should identify the 

appropriate docket (FRA–2005–22365) 

and should identify the specific 

document number, discussed above. 

Interested parties may submit their 

comments using any of the following 

methods: 

a. Direct e-mail to FRA at: 

RRS.Correspondence@fra.dot.gov. 

b. Direct fax to FRA at: 202–493–6309. 

c. Submission of comments to the 

Docket Clerk, DOT Docket Management 

Facility, Room PL–401 (Plaza Level), 

400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590. 

Any comments or information sent 

directly to FRA will be immediately 

provided to the DOT DMS for inclusion 

into the Emergency Relief Docket. 

8. Parties interested in having a public 

hearing on any petition must notify FRA 

within 72 hours of the posting of the 

petition in the Emergency Relief Docket. 

If FRA receives a request for a public 

hearing from any interested party, FRA 

will immediately arrange for a 

telephone conference between all 

interested parties as soon as practicable. 

Thus, interested party submitting 

comments or information on any 

petition for waiver should include 

telephone numbers at which its 

representatives may be contacted should 

the need arise. After such conference, 

should a party still request a public 

hearing one will be arranged as soon as 

practicable pursuant to the provisions 

contained in 49 CFR part 211. 

9. FRA may grant a petition for waiver 

prior to conducting a public hearing if 

such action is in the public interest and 

consistent with safety or in situations 

where a hearing request is received 

subsequent to the 72-hour comment 

period. In such an instance, FRA will 

immediately notify the party requesting 

the public hearing and will arrange to 

conduct such hearing as soon as 

practicable. 

10. FRA reserves the right to reopen 

any docket and reconsider any decision 

made pursuant to these emergency 

procedures based upon its own 

initiative or based upon information or 

comments received subsequent to the 

72-hour comment period or at a later 

scheduled public hearing. 

11. All FRA decision letters, either 

granting or denying a petition, will be 

posted in the Emergency Relief Docket 

(FRA–2005–22365) and will reference 

the document number of the petition to 

which it relates. 

FRA wishes to inform all interested 

parties that anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78). The 

Statement may also be found at http:// 

dms.dot.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC on September 1, 

2005. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety 

Standards and Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 05–17840 Filed 9–2–05; 3:10 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub-No. 656X)] 

CSX Transportation, Inc.—

Abandonment Exemption—in Marion 

County, WV 

CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) has 

filed a notice of exemption under 49 

CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments to abandon a 17.51-mile 

line of its Southern Region, Huntington 

Division East, Fairmont Subdivision, 

between Barrackville, milepost BS 

306.32, and Mannington, milepost BS 

319.48, including the Dents Run Spur 

between milepost BSB 0.00 and 

milepost BSB 4.35, in Marion County, 

WV.1 The line traverses United States 

Postal Service Zip Codes 26528, 26587, 

26571, 26554, and 26559. 

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 meet. 

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2The 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. 

3Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

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

1002.2(f)(25). 

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 October 8, 2005, 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),3 and trail 

use/rail banking requests under 49 CFR 

1152.29 must be filed by September 18, 

2005. Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by September 28, 

2005, with: Surface Transportation 

Board, 1925 K Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20423–0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to the applicant’s 

representative: Louis E. Gitomer, Ball 

Janik LLP, 91455 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 an environmental 

report which addresses the 

abandonment’s effects, if any, on the 

environment and historic resources. 

SEA will issue an environmental 

assessment (EA) by September 13, 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 September 8, 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: September 1, 2005. 

By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Vernon A. Williams, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–17811 Filed 9–7–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Public Meeting of the President’s 

Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform 

AGENCY: Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice advises all 

interested persons of a public meeting of 

the President’s Advisory Panel on 

Federal Tax Reform. 

DATES: This meeting will be held on 

Friday, September 23, 2005. The 

meeting will be held via teleconference 

and will begin at 10 a.m. eastern 

daylight time. Interested parties will be 

able to listen to the meeting. Call-in 

information will be posted on the 

Panel’s Web site, http:// 

www.taxreformpanel.gov, at a later date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Panel staff at (202) 927–2TAX (927–

2829) (not a toll-free call) or e-mail 

info@taxreformpanel.gov (please do not 

send comments to this box). Additional 

information is available at http:// 

www.taxreformpanel.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose: 

The September 23 meeting is the 

thirteenth meeting of the Advisory 

Panel. At this meeting, the Panel will 

continue to discuss issues associated 

with reform of the tax code. There is a 

possibility that this meeting will not 

take place as scheduled. Please check 

the Panel’s web site for updated 

information. 

Comments: Interested parties are 

invited to call into the teleconference to 

listen to the meeting; however, no 

public comments will be heard at the 

meeting. Any written comments with 

respect to this meeting may be mailed 

to The President’s Advisory Panel on 

Federal Tax Reform, 1440 New York 

Avenue, NW., Suite 2100, Washington, 

DC 20220. All written comments will be 

made available to the public. 

Records: Records are being kept of 

Advisory Panel proceedings and will be 

available at the Internal Revenue 

Service’s FOIA Reading Room at 1111 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Room 1621, 

Washington, DC 20024. The Reading 

Room is open to the public from 9 a.m. 

to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday 

except holidays. The public entrance to 

the reading room is on Pennsylvania 

Avenue between 10th and 12th streets. 

The phone number is (202) 622–5164 

(not a toll-free number). Advisory Panel 

documents, including meeting 

announcements, agendas, and minutes, 

will also be available on http:// 

www.taxreformpanel.gov. 

Dated: September 6, 2005. 

Mark S. Kaizen, 

Designated Federal Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–17932 Filed 9–7–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4811–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade 

Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and 

Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of our continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, and as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

we invite comments on the proposed or 

continuing information collections 

listed below in this notice. 

DATES: We must receive your written 

comments on or before November 7, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments to 

Mary A. Wood, Alcohol and Tobacco 

Tax and Trade Bureau, at any of these 

addresses: 

• P.O. Box 14412, Washington, DC 

20044–4412; 

• 202–927–8525 (facsimile); or 

• formcomments@ttb.gov (e-mail). 

Please send separate comments for 

each specific information collection 

listed below. You must reference the 

information collection’s title, form 

number, and OMB number (if any) in 

your comment. If you submit your 

comment via facsimile, send no more