12250 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 43 / Monday, March 6, 1995 / Notices

1The Commission will grant a stay if an informed

decision on environmental issues (whether raised

by a party or by the Commission 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 Commission may take appropriate action

before the exemption’s effective date.

2See Exempt. of Rail Abandonment—Offers of

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

3The Commission will accept late-filed trail use

requests so long as the abandonment has not been

consummated and the abandoning railroad is

willing to negotiate an agreement.

[AZ–024–1330–00]

Intent To Amend the Phoenix Resource

Management Plan and the Safford

District Resource Management Plan,

Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior

ACTION: Notice of Intent.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land

Management, Phoenix District, in

response to a land exchange proposal, is

preparing an Environmental Assessment

to amend the Phoenix Resource

Management Plan and the Safford

District Resource Management Plan

(RMPs) in compliance with the Federal

Land Policy and Management Act of

1976, as amended, and Section 102(2)(c)

of the National Environment Policy Act

of 1969. The exchange, as proposed,

involves trading selected public lands

for private lands with high resource

values. The public lands selected

include 160 non-wilderness acres of the

remaining segments of the White

Canyon Area of Critical Environmental

Concern (ACEC)—most of the ACEC is

now managed as the White Canyon

Wilderness—and 4,561 acres which

were designated as retention lands

within the RMPs. Three hundred fiftyfive (355) of these selected public lands

were transferred from the Safford

District to the Phoenix Resource Area

(Phoenix District) under a 1991

boundary adjustment. The proposed

land exchange will be analyzed under a

separate environmental impact

statement (Federal Register Notice of

Intent, December 19, 1994: 65383).

Management actions proposed in the

Environmental Assessment include

altering the ACEC designation and

changing the classification of selected

public lands from retention to disposal

parcels available under an exchange.

The Environmental Assessment to

amend the two Resource Management

Plans will identify a proposed action

and no action alternative as well as

appropriate alternatives derived through

the analysis of planning issues and

criteria. Once the Environmental

Assessment draft has been completed, a

Notice of Availability will be published

in the Federal Register followed by a

60-day comment period.

Public comment is needed now to

identify issues and criteria for

consideration during the amendment

process. Public open houses/scoping

meetings will be held at the following

locations and times:

Florence Open House, March 28,

1995, 4–8 p.m. at the Florence Unified

School District Office, Administration

Building, 350 S. Main St., Florence, AZ

85232, (602) 868–2300. Mesa Open

House, March 30, 1995, 4–8 p.m. at the

Rendezvous Center, 263 North Center

Street, Mesa, Arizona (602) 644–2178.

DATES: Written public comments may be

submitted during the open houses or to

the address given below. Public

comments will be accepted until April

10, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be mailed to, and copies of the scoping

documentation are available from:

Bureau of Land Management, Phoenix

District Office, 2015 West Deer Valley

Road, Phoenix, AZ 85027, ATTENTION

McFARLIN AMENDMENT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Shela McFarlin, Bureau of Land

Management, Phoenix District Office,

2015 West Deer Valley Road, Phoenix,

AZ 85027 or telephone (602) 780–8090.

Dated February 28, 1995.

David J. Miller,

Associate District Manager.

[FR Doc. 95–5432 Filed 3–3–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

COMMISSION

Release of Waybill Data

The Commission has received a

request from Covington & Burling and

Union Pacific Corporation (UP) for

permission to use certain data from the

1993 I.C.C. Waybill Sample. A copy of

the request (WB468–2/23/95) may be

obtained from the I.C.C. Office of

Economic and Environmental Analysis.

The waybill sample contains

confidential railroad and shipper data;

therefore, if any parties object to this

request, they should file their objections

with the Director of the Commission’s

Office of Economic and Environmental

Analysis within 14 calendar days of the

date of this notice. The rules for release

of waybill data are codified at 49 CFR

1244.8.

Contact: James A. Nash, (202) 927–

6196.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–5389 Filed 3–3–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7035–01–P

[Docket No. AB–43 (Sub-No. 166X)]

Illinois Central Railroad Company—

Abandonment Exemption—in Smith

County, MS

Illinois Central Railroad Company (IC)

has filed a notice of exemption under 49

CFR part 1152 subpart F—Exempt

Abandonments to abandon its 3-mile

line of railroad (known as the

Taylorsville, MS line) between milepost

MB–128.50 and MB–131.50 in

Taylorsville, Smith County, MS.

IC has certified that: (1) No local

traffic has moved over the line for at

least 2 years; (2) 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

complainant’s favor within the last 2

years; and (4) the requirements at 49

CFR 1105.7 (environmental report), 49

CFR 1105.8 (historic report), 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 April 5,

1995, unless stayed pending

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do

not involve environmental issues,1

formal expressions of intent to file offers

of financial assistance 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 16, 1995. Petitions to

reopen or requests for public use

conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must

be filed by March 27, 1995, with: Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Branch,

Interstate Commerce Commission,

Washington, DC 20423.

A copy of any petition filed with the

Commission should be sent to