10610 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 38 / Monday, February 27, 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 before

the effective date of this notice of exemption. See

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

377 (1989). Any entity seeking a stay involving

environmental concerns is encouraged to file its

request as soon as possible in order to permit this

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.

5. The above-listed surveys are now

the basic record for describing the lands

for all authorized purposes. These

surveys will be placed in the open files

in the BLM Nevada State Office and will

be available to the public as a matter of

information. Copies of the surveys and

related field notes may be furnished to

the public upon payment of the

appropriate fees.

Dated: February 15, 1995

John S. Parrish,

Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Nevada.

[FR Doc. 95–4645 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Species

Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications

for permits.

The following applicants have

applied for a permit to conduct certain

activities with endangered species. This

notice is provided pursuant to section

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et

seq.).

Permit No. 798744

Applicant: Kootenai Tribe of Idaho,

Fisheries Program, Bonners Ferry, Idaho

The applicant requests a permit to

take (capture, collect, radio tag, mark,

and release) the Kootenai River

population of the white sturgeon

(Acipenser transmontanus) in the

Kootenai River, Idaho to conduct

captive propagation and scientific

research to enhance the propagation and

survival of the species.

Permit No. 799001

Applicant: University of Hawaii,

Department of Zoology, Honolulu,

Hawaii

The applicant requests a permit to

take (capture, mark, band, take blood,

measure, and release) Hawaii akepas

(Loxops coccineus coccineus), Hawaii

creepers (Oreomystis mana),

akiapolaaus (Hemignathus munroi), and

Hawaiian hawks (Buteo solitarius) on

the island of Hawaii for scientific

research to enhance the survival of the

species. These studies were previously

authorized under the Regional Director’s

permit no. PRT–702631.

DATES: Written comments on the permit

applications must be received by March

29, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written data or comments

should be submitted to the Chief,

Division of Consultation and

Conservation Planning, Ecological

Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

911 N.E. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon

97232–4181. Please refer to the

respective permit number for each

application when submitting comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Documents and other information

submitted with these applications are

available for review, subject to the

requirements of the Privacy Act and

Freedom of Information Act, by any

party who submits a written request for

a copy of such documents, within 30

days of the date of publication of this

notice, to the following office: U.S. Fish

and Wildlife Service, Ecological

Services, Division of Consultation and

Conservation Planning, 911 N.E. 11th

Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232–4181.

Telephone: 503–231–2063; FAX: 503–

231–6243. Please refer to the respective

permit number for each application

when requesting copies of documents.

Dated: February 16, 1995.

Thomas Dwyer,

Deputy Regional Director, Region 1, Portland,

Oregon.

[FR Doc. 95–4680 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. AB–32 (Sub-No. 60X) and AB–

355 (Sub-No. 12X)]

Boston and Maine Corporation—

Abandonment Exemption—in Hillsboro

County, NH; Springfield Terminal

Railway Company—Discontinuance of

Service Exemption—in Hillsboro

County, NH

Boston and Maine Corporation (B&M)

and Springfield Terminal Railway

Company (ST) have filed a notice of

exemption under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart

F—Exempt Abandonments and

Discontinuances for B&M to abandon

and ST to discontinue service over a

segment of B&M’s line of railroad,

known as the Portsmouth Branch (the

Line), between milepost 37.10 and

milepost 39.68, a distance of

approximately 2.58 miles, in

Manchester, Hillsboro County, NH.

B&M and ST certify that: (1) No local

traffic has moved over the Line for at

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on

the Line 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 this exemption,

any employee adversely affected by the

abandonment or discontinuance 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 March

29, 1995, 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 March 9,

1995. Petitions to reopen or requests for

public use conditions under 49 CFR

1152.28 must be filed by March 20,

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

applicants’ representative: John R.

Nadolny, Iron Horse Park, No. Billerica,

MA 01862.

If the notice of exemption contains

false or misleading information, the

exemption is void ab initio.

B&M and ST have filed an

environmental report which addresses

the effects of the abandonment and

discontinuance, if any, on the

environment and historic resources. The

Section of Environmental Analysis

(SEA) will issue an environmental

assessment (EA) by March 3, 1995.

Interested persons may obtain a copy of

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 3219,

Interstate Commerce Commission,