63056 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 236 / Friday, December 8, 1995 / Notices

1A stay will be issued routinely by the

Commission in those proceedings where an

informed decision on environmental issues

(whether raised by a party or by the Commission’s

Section of Environmental Analysis in its

independent investigation) cannot be made prior to

the effective date of the notice of exemption. See

Exemption of Out-of-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d

377 (1989). Any entity seeking a stay on

environmental concerns is encouraged to file its

request as soon as possible in order to permit the

Commission to review and act on the request before

the effective date of this exemption.

2See Exempt. of Rail Abandonment—Offers of

Finan. Assist., 4 I.C.C.2d 164 (1987).

3The Commission will accept a late-filed trail use

request as long as it retains jurisdiction to do so.

Utah Resource Advisory Council

meeting are open to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don

Banks, Utah State Office, Bureau of

Land Management, 324 S. State St.,

Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111;

phone (801) 539–4021.

Dated: December 1, 1995.

G. William Lamb,

Utah BLM State Director.

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Leasing of Public Land Washington

County, Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action.

SUMMARY: This notice involves a long

term lease on public land in Utah. The

lease is intended to resolve a longstanding agriculture trespass and would

be offered non-competitively to the

current user.

DATE: Comments should be received by

January 8, 1996.

ADDRESS: Comments should be sent to

the Area Manager, Dixie Resource Area,

345 East Riverside Drive, St. George,

Utah 84770.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Randy Massey, Realty Specialist, (801)

673–4654 ext. 274.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

following described public land is being

proposed for a long term agriculture

lease:

Salt Lake Meridian

T. 40 S., R. 17 W.,

Sec. 29, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4; (portion of)

containing approximately 6.7 acres.

The area is currently being used as

irrigated pasture and has been used as

such for a number of years. The

issuance of the lease would terminate a

long-standing trespass. The proposed

lease would be issued noncompetitively to the adjacent land

owner. Application for the lease will be

accepted upon completion of the

comment period. The lease would be

issued for not less than fair market

rental, and the lessee shall reimburse

the United States for reasonable

administrative and other costs incurred

by the United States in processing the

lease and for monitoring operation,

maintenance, and rehabilitation of the

facilities authorized. The

reimbursement of costs shall be in

accordance with 43 CFR 2920.6.

For a period of 30 days from the date

of this notice, interested parties may

submit comments to the Area Manager,

Dixie Resource Area, address noted

above. Any adverse comments will be

evaluated by the Area Manager who

may vacate or modify this Realty Action

and issue a final determination. In the

absence of any objections, this Notice of

Realty Action will become the final

determination of the Bureau of Land

Management.

James D. Crisp,

Area Manager.

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[Docket No. AB–32 (Sub-No. 70X)]

Boston and Maine Corporation—

Abandonment Exemption—in

Middlesex County, MA

Boston and Maine Corporation (B&M)

has filed a notice of exemption under 49

CFR part 1152, Subpart F—Exempt

Abandonments to abandon a portion of

railroad known as the Tewksbury

Branch line, between milepost 0.75 and

milepost 1.92, a distance of

approximately 1.17 miles, in

Tewksbury, Middlesex County, MA.

The proposed consummation date of the

abandonment is January 8, 1996.

B&M has certified that: (1) no local

traffic has moved over the line for at

least 2 years; (2) overhead traffic has

been 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

Commission or with any U.S. District

Court or has been decided in favor of

the 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 use of 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. 10505(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 January

6, 1996, 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 3 must be filed by

December 18, 1995. Petitions to reopen

or requests for public use conditions

under 49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by

December 27, 1995, with: Office of the

Secretary, Case Control Branch,

Interstate Commerce Commission,

Washington, DC 20423.

A copy of any pleading filed with the

Commission should be sent to

applicant’s representative: John R.

Nadolny, Iron Horse Park, North

Billerica, MA 01862.

If the notice of exemption contains

false or misleading information, the

exemption is void ab initio.

B&M has filed an environmental

report which addresses the

abandonment’s effects, if any, on the

environmental and historic resources.

The Section of Environmental Analysis

(SEA) will issue an environmental

assessment (EA) by December 12, 1995.

Interested persons may obtain a copy of

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 3219,

Interstate Commerce Commission,

Washington, DC 20423) or by calling

Elaine Kaiser, Chief of SEA, at (202)

927–6248. Comments on environmental

and historic preservation matters must

be filed within 15 days after the EA is

available to the public.

Environmental, historic preservation,

public use, or trail use/rail banking

conditions will be imposed, where

appropriate, in a subsequent decision.

Decided: November 29, 1995.

By the Commission, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

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