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demonstration project is smaller than 

expected: currently, 27 carriers are 

operating 107 trucks. Although these 

carriers have made 9,983 trips into the 

United States, most of these carriers had 

destinations in the commercial zones; 

they have performed 1,272 long-haul 

trips beyond the border zones. 

Concurrently, many U.S.-domiciled 

motor carriers have expressed concern 

at the high cost of maintaining an 

official legal representative in Mexico, 

especially due to their belief that a 

minimum of two years is needed to 

develop sustainable business 

relationships with Mexican shippers. 

This has resulted in a limited number of 

U.S. carriers participating in the 

demonstration project. At the moment, 

only 10 U.S. carriers are participating 

and they are operating only 55 vehicles. 

They have made 2,245 trips across the 

Mexican border. 

In order to ensure the demonstration 

project can be reviewed and evaluated 

on the basis of a more comprehensive 

body of data, FMCSA has decided to 

extend the project from one year up to 

the full three years allowed by statute. 

The U.S. and Mexico will continue to 

limit the project to a maximum of 100 

of each other’s motor carriers and will 

provide for reciprocal authority. In 

addition, the U.S. will require 

participating Mexican carriers and 

drivers to comply with all applicable 

U.S. laws and regulations. The 

extension will enable FMCSA to collect 

and analyze a larger volume of safety 

and operational data, which is the 

fundamental goal of the demonstration 

project. We believe an extension will 

provide non-participating motor 

carriers, both in Mexico and the United 

States, added incentives to join the 

project, knowing that their investment 

in long-haul foreign operations will 

have more time to mature and become 

profitable. 

Issued on: July 31, 2008. 

John H. Hill, 

Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[Docket No: FTA–2008–0002] 

National Transit Database: 

Amendments to Urbanized Area 

Annual Reporting Manual 

Provider: Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Amendments to 2008 

National Transit Database Urbanized 

Area Annual Reporting Manual. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

adoption of certain amendments for the 

Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) 

2008 National Transit Database (NTD) 

Urbanized Area Annual Reporting 

Manual (Annual Manual). On February 

7, 2008, FTA published a notice in the 

Federal Register (73 FR 7361) inviting 

comments on proposed amendments to 

the 2008 Annual Manual. This notice 

provides responses to those comments, 

and announces the adoption of certain 

amendments for the 2008 Annual 

Manual, as well as the adoption of some 

amendments to take effect for the 2009 

Report Year. 

DATES: Effective Date: August 6, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

program issues, John D. Giorgis, Office 

of Budget and Policy, (202) 366–5430 

(telephone); (202) 366–7989 (fax); or 

john.giorgis@dot.gov (e-mail). For legal 

issues, Richard Wong, Office of the 

Chief Counsel, (202) 366–0675 

(telephone); (202) 366–3809 (fax); or 

richard.wong@dot.gov (e-mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The National Transit Database (NTD) 

is the Federal Transit Administration’s 

(FTA’s) primary database for statistics 

on the transit industry. Recipients of 

FTA’s Urbanized Area Formula Program 

(Section 5307) and Other Than 

Urbanized Area Formula Program 

(Section 5311) are required by statute to 

submit data to the NTD. These data are 

used to ‘‘help meet the needs of * * * 

the public for information on which to 

base public transportation service 

planning * * * ’’ (49 U.S.C. 5335). 

Other transit providers in urbanized 

areas report to the NTD under these 

requirements on a voluntary basis for 

purposes of including their data in the 

apportionment of Urbanized Area 

Formula Grants. FTA details the NTD 

reporting requirements for urbanized 

area transit providers in the NTD 

Urbanized Area Annual Reporting 

Manual (Annual Manual). 

Currently, over 650 transit providers 

in urbanized areas report to the NTD 

through an Internet-based reporting 

system. Each year, performance data 

from these submissions are used to 

apportion over $5 billion of FTA funds 

under the Urbanized Area Formula and 

the Fixed-Guideway Modernization 

Grants Programs. These data are also 

used in the annual National Transit 

Summaries and Trends report, the 

biennial Conditions and Performance 

Report to Congress, and in meeting 

FTA’s obligations under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act. 

In an ongoing effort to improve the 

NTD Internet reporting system and to be 

responsive to the needs of transit 

providers reporting to the NTD, and to 

the needs of the transit data user 

community, FTA annually refines and 

clarifies reporting requirements to the 

NTD. This notice announces the 

adoption of certain amendments for the 

2008 Annual Manual, as well as the 

adoption of some amendments to take 

effect for the 2009 Report Year. 

II. Comments and FTA Response to 

Comments 

On February 7, 2008, FTA published 

a notice in the Federal Register (73 FR 

7361) inviting comments on proposed 

amendments to the 2008 Annual 

Manual. FTA received responses from 

seven commenters. Three of the 

commenters made comments on the set 

of amendments as a whole. One 

expressed support for the package of 

amendments as a whole and two 

commenters suggested that most of the 

proposed amendments should not take 

effect until the 2009 Report Year, in 

order to give reporters sufficient time to 

prepare reports under the new 

requirements. FTA agrees with the 

commenters and will therefore delay 

many of the proposed amendments until 

the 2009 Report Year, particularly those 

that impact relationships with 

purchased transportation providers. 

FTA will respond to all comments based 

on each proposed amendment. 

(a) Contractual Relationship (B–30) 

Form 

FTA proposed to revamp this form to 

allow reporters to clearly report three 

separate types of relationships: (1) 

Traditional purchased transportation 

contracts; (2) taxicab contracts for 

demand response service; and (3) passthrough relationships. Under this 

proposal, taxicab contracts for demand 

response service would become a third 

type of service under the NTD, with 

reduced reporting requirements on the 

S–10, and no reporting requirements for 

the A–10 (asset inventory) form. FTA 

received one comment in support of the 

proposed changes. 

FTA Response: Based on the above 

comments requesting that changes 

impacting the reporting requirements 

for purchased transportation services be 

delayed until the 2009 Report Year, FTA 

agrees to delay implementation of this 

amendment until the 2009 Report Year. 

The above requirements will be 

reflected in the 2009 Annual Manual. 

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To support the transition to reduced 

reporting requirements for taxicab 

demand response contracts in 2009, 

FTA will request that the following data 

elements on the S–10 form be reported 

separately for taxicab demand response 

services from all other purchased 

transportation demand response 

services: Vehicles Operated in 

Maximum Service, Vehicles Available 

for Maximum Service, Vehicle Revenue 

Miles, Vehicle Revenue Hours, Unlinked 

Passenger Trips, ADA Unlinked 

Passenger Trips, and Passenger Miles 

Traveled. FTA will automatically grant 

a waiver from this requirement for the 

2008 Report Year to any transit provider 

with both taxicab demand response 

services and regular purchased 

transportation demand response 

services that is unable to report these 

data separately for the taxicab demand 

response services in 2008. 

FTA received one other comment, 

objecting to the reporting of contract 

administration costs on the B–30. 

FTA Response: FTA has long required 

the reporting of contract administration 

costs under the label of ‘‘other costs 

incurred by buyer.’’ This is not a new 

reporting requirement. The reporting of 

contract administration costs is essential 

for understanding the true costs of 

purchased transportation services 

relative to directly operated services. In 

response to this comment, FTA will 

amend the titles and definitions on the 

B–30 form to make the reporting of 

information more intuitive, but without 

altering or increasing the existing 

reporting requirements. 

(b) Funds Expended and Earned (F–10) 

Form 

FTA proposed to only require transit 

providers to separate funds earned and 

spent on operations from funds earned 

and spent on capital in the context of 

fare revenues, other directly-generated 

revenues (e.g. parking and advertising 

revenues), contributed services (e.g. 

services provided directly by another 

government body), the various sources 

of Federal funds, total state government 

revenues, total local government 

revenues, and total revenues from 

independent political entities. FTA 

proposed to retain the requirement to 

continue to report total funds earned 

from each separate type of tax at the 

local and state levels. 

Two commenters voiced support for 

this proposal, proposing that FTA go 

further and consolidate expenditure 

reporting for the different categories of 

directly-generated revenues (e.g. fares, 

advertising, or concessions.) 

FTA Response: FTA agrees with the 

above comments and will adopt the 

suggestion to consolidate expenditure 

reporting for the different categories of 

directly-generated revenues on the F–10 

Form. FTA will defer implementation of 

this amendment until the 2009 Report 

Year. The above requirements will be 

reflected in the 2009 Annual Manual. 

(c) Bonds and Loans 

FTA proposed to eliminate the 

requirement to report Bond and Loan 

Payments separately for each category of 

funding. Instead, FTA proposed 

simplified bond and loan reporting that 

would require transit providers to 

report: (1) Year-beginning principal 

outstanding; (2) new bonds and loans 

(new principal and interest); (3) total 

interest paid; (4) total principal repaid; 

and (5) total year-end principal and 

interest outstanding. 

FTA received one comment in 

support of this proposal. Another 

commenter objected only to the 

proposal to eliminate the source of 

funds used to repay the bonds and 

loans. A third commenter objected to 

reporting interest expenses on the F–10 

Form instead of on the F–40 Form. 

FTA Response: FTA adopts the 

suggestion to retain the reporting of the 

source of funds used to repay bonds and 

loans. FTA does not adopt the 

suggestion to continue the reporting of 

interest on the F–40 Form. FTA believes 

that it would be much easier and more 

convenient to have all reporting related 

to bonds and loans in a single place. 

Based on the above comments, FTA will 

also defer implementation of this 

amendment until the 2009 Report Year. 

The above requirements will be 

reflected in the 2009 Annual Manual. 

(d) Uses of Capital (F–20) Form 

FTA proposed to reduce the reporting 

requirements by combining the 

categories for Fare Revenue Collection 

Equipment and Communication and 

Information Systems into a single 

category for Intelligent Transportation 

Systems (ITS.) 

FTA received one comment in 

support of this proposal, and two 

comments objecting to this proposal that 

it was insufficiently defined. 

FTA Response: FTA understands the 

comments that the proposed Intelligent 

Transportation Systems (ITS) category is 

insufficiently defined and therefore 

withdraws the above proposal. FTA will 

reconsider its definitions for capital 

expenditure reporting, and provide a 

more comprehensive proposal for public 

comment in a future report year. 

(e) Operating Expenses (F–30) Form 

FTA proposed to combine the object 

classes for Fuels and Lubricants and 

Tires and Lubes, as well as the object 

classes for Taxes and Miscellaneous 

Expenses. FTA also proposed to: (1) 

Eliminate the reporting of Fuels and 

Lubes object classes under the NonVehicle Maintenance and General 

Administration operating functions; (2) 

eliminate reporting of the Utilities object 

class under the Non-Vehicle 

Maintenance operating function; and (3) 

only permit the Casualty and Liability 

and Miscellaneous Expenses object 

classes to be reported under the General 

Administration operating function. 

FTA received three comments, all 

objecting to various parts of the 

proposal that would have unintended 

consequences. Two of the comments 

specifically recommended that Fuels 

and Lubricants be retained as a separate 

object class. One of the comments noted 

that restricting the reporting of Casualty 

and Liability object class to the General 

Administration function was in conflict 

with the guidance in the Uniform 

System of Accounts (USOA). One 

comment suggested that all object 

classes for which there is not a specific 

interest should be consolidated into a 

single object class for Other Expenses. 

FTA Response: FTA withdraws its 

proposal for combining object classes. 

FTA will evaluate the suggestion to 

consolidate unneeded object classes into 

a single object class for Other Expenses, 

and consider proposing it as an 

amendment for public comment in a 

future report year. FTA will also only 

restrict certain object classes to being 

reported under certain functions to the 

extent that those restrictions are 

explicitly defined in the Uniform 

System of Accounts. 

(f) Operating Expenses Summary (F–40) 

Form 

FTA proposes to eliminate collecting 

Funds Not Applied, Depreciation, 

Amortization of Intangibles, Interest 

Expenses, Leases, and Reconciling 

Items. FTA received two comments 

objecting to these changes. Both 

comments suggested that these items 

should be retained, along with a 

requirement that these lines must be 

used to reconcile a transit provider’s 

NTD report with their audited, 

published accounts. 

FTA Response: FTA agrees with the 

commenters and withdraws its 

proposal. FTA will consider proposing 

an amendment to require the use of the 

F–40 Form to reconcile a reporter’s NTD 

reports and their audited published 

accounts for a future report year. 

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(g) Operator’s Wages (F–50) Form 

FTA proposed to discontinue this 

form, and received one comment in 

favor of this proposal. 

FTA Response: FTA adopts the 

proposal. The F–50 form will be 

eliminated for the 2008 Report Year. 

(h) Service (S–10) Form 

FTA proposed to replace the reporting 

of Total Actual Hours and Total Actual 

Miles with the reporting of Deadhead 

Hours and Deadhead Miles. 

Additionally, FTA proposed to 

eliminate the reporting of Charter 

Service Hours and of School Bus Hours 

and to add the reporting of Other Hours 

and Other Miles. 

FTA received one comment in 

support of these changes. Another 

comment supported the proposal, but 

recommended that Other Hours and 

Other Miles be dropped from the form 

entirely, as this information was 

unnecessary. One comment from a very 

large transit provider objected that the 

reporting of Deadhead Hours and 

Deadhead Miles would be overly 

burdensome, and recommended 

retaining the reporting of Total Actual 

Hours and Total Actual Miles. 

FTA Response: FTA agrees with the 

last commenter, and will retain the 

reporting of Total Actual Hours and 

Total Actual Miles. In order to facilitate 

FTA’s desire to reduce the confusion 

surrounding the definition of Total 

Actual Hours and Total Actual Miles on 

the S–10 Form, FTA will add autocalculated lines for Deadhead Hours 

and Deadhead Miles on the S–10 Form 

for the 2008 Report Year. This will not 

impact reporting burden, and will 

clarify the relationship between 

Revenue Hours and Total Actual Hours 

and between Revenue Miles and Total 

Actual Miles. FTA withdraws its 

proposal to replace Charter Hours and 

Schoolbus Hours with Other Hours and 

Other Miles. 

FTA also proposed to eliminate 

collecting information on Deadhead 

Hours, Deadhead Miles, Time Service 

Begins and Time Service Ends for 

vanpool, jitney, and pu ́ blico services. 

FTA also proposed to drop reporting of 

peak data on service times and vehicles 

in operation for ferryboat, aerial 

tramway, jitney, and pu ́ blico services. 

Finally, FTA proposed to exempt rail 

systems with 9 or fewer rail vehicles 

operated in maximum service (peak 

hour service) from the requirement to 

report Average Weekday Unlinked 

Passenger Trips and Actual Passenger 

Car Revenue Miles by four time 

categories: Weekday AM Peak, Weekday 

Midday, Weekday PM Peak and 

Weekday Other. 

FTA received no comments on these 

proposals. 

FTA Response: FTA adopts the above 

proposals. These requirements will 

appear in the 2008 Annual Manual. 

(i) Employee Resources (R–10) Form 

FTA proposed to add reporting of 

Paid Non-Work Hours to this form. This 

data was previously reported on the 

F–50 Form, which is being dropped. 

FTA received two comments objecting 

to this proposal, arguing that the 

proposal is burdensome and that there 

is no compelling interest in collecting 

data on pay for work hours vs. non-work 

hours. 

FTA Response: FTA withdraws this 

proposal. 

(j) Maintenance Performance (R–20) 

Form 

FTA proposed to drop the reporting 

requirement for Total Labor Hours for 

Inspection and Maintenance, as this 

information is already reported in the 

R–10 Form. FTA also proposed to 

require that this form be completed by 

transit providers for purchased 

transportation service, as it is currently 

only required for directly operated 

services. FTA received two comments in 

favor of this proposal. 

FTA Response: FTA adopts the 

proposal to eliminate the reporting 

requirement for Total Labor Hours for 

Inspection and Maintenance for the 

2008 Report Year. FTA defers adopting 

the proposal to make this form required 

for purchased transportation services 

until the 2009 Report Year. This 

guidance will be reflected in the 2008 

Annual Manual and the 2009 Annual 

Manual, respectively. 

(k) Energy Consumption (R–30) Form 

FTA proposed to drop the lines on 

this form for certain rarely-used fuels, 

specifically, Methanol, Bunker Fuel, and 

Grain Additive. These fuels would still 

be reportable under the Other Fuels 

category. FTA also proposed to require 

that this form be completed for 

purchased transportation services (it is 

currently only required for directly 

operated services). 

FTA received one comment in 

support of this proposal, with the caveat 

that it should not be made effective 

until the 2009 Report Year. 

FTA Response: FTA agrees to adopt 

the above proposal, effective in the 2009 

Report Year. This guidance will be 

reflected in the 2009 Annual Manual. 

(l) Stations and Maintenance Facilities 

(A–10) Form 

FTA proposed to require expanded 

reporting of the multi-modal nature of 

transit stations. FTA also proposed to 

require motorbus, trolleybus, and light 

rail services to report the number of 

stops and shelters in their systems. 

FTA received two comments objecting 

to the above proposal as being overly 

burdensome, and as raising a number of 

difficult issues in defining exactly what 

facilities should be reported. 

FTA Response: FTA withdraws this 

proposal. FTA will re-evaluate the 

concerns regarding definitions of this 

proposal and ways to minimize the 

reporting burden of this proposal for a 

future report year. 

(m) Transit Way Mileage (A–20) Form 

FTA proposed to merge this form with 

the Fixed Guideway Segments Form 

(S–20 Form). FTA received two 

comments objecting that although the 

forms both collect data on fixed 

guideways, merging the different data 

elements of the two forms would create 

a significant increase in reporting 

burden. Additionally, while a large 

number of fixed guideways are included 

on both forms, some fixed guideways 

(e.g. sidings and parallel tracks) only 

appear on the A–20 Form, whereas 

other fixed guideways (e.g. HOV lanes) 

only appear on the S–20 Form. 

FTA Response: FTA withdraws this 

proposal. FTA will re-evaluate ways to 

eliminate the duplicate data collections 

on the A–20 and S–20 forms while 

minimizing reporting burden for a 

future report year. 

(n) Revenue Vehicle Inventory (A–30) 

Form 

FTA proposed to simply collect 

whether the vehicles are compliant with 

the Americans with Disabilities Act 

(ADA Accessible), and to not separately 

collect those vehicles that are ADA 

Accessible by virtue of having lifts and 

those that are ADA Accessible by virtue 

of having ramps or low floors. FTA also 

proposed to stop collecting Total Miles 

on Active Vehicles During this Time 

Period, as this information is 

infrequently used, is duplicative of 

information on total miles collected on 

the S–10 Form, and cannot be used as 

a measure of total miles from the 

previous year. FTA noted that it was 

retaining collection of Average Lifetime 

Miles per Active Vehicle as a measure of 

asset condition and age. 

FTA received two comments in 

support of this proposal. A third 

comment also asked FTA to consider 

allowing reporters to estimate the 

Average Lifetime Miles per Active 

Vehicle when the vehicles have been 

acquired through a merger with a 

private operator, and the actual mileage 

is not available. 

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FTA Response: FTA adopts its 

proposal, but will defer implementation 

until the 2009 Report Year. This 

guidance will appear in the 2009 

Annual Manual. FTA also adopts the 

commenter’s suggestion for allowing 

estimation of Average Lifetime Miles per 

Active Vehicle in the case described. 

That guidance will appear in the 2008 

Annual Manual. 

Federal Funding Allocation (FFA–10) 

Form 

FTA proposes to make this form 

required for all transit providers serving 

more than one urbanized area, or an 

urbanized area and a non-urbanized 

area in order to support the 

apportionment of Small TransitIntensive Cities (STIC Grants.) 

FTA received two comments in 

support of this proposal. 

FTA Response: FTA adopts this 

proposal for the 2008 Report Year. This 

guidance will appear in the 2008 

Annual Manual. 

Issued in Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

July, 2008. 

James S. Simpson, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E8–18090 Filed 8–5–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–515 (Sub-No. 2); STB 

Finance Docket No. 35160] 

Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad, 

Inc.—Abandonment and 

Discontinuance of Service—in Coos, 

Douglas, and Lane Counties, OR; 

Oregon International Port of Coos 

Bay—Feeder Line Application—Coos 

Bay Line of the Central Oregon & 

Pacific Railroad, Inc. 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of public hearing. 

SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation 

Board will hold a public hearing 

concerning the abandonment and feeder 

line applications in the respective 

above-titled dockets. The purpose of the 

hearing will be to allow interested 

persons to comment on the applications. 

On the same day, immediately prior to 

the hearing, Board staff will hold a 

public information session concerning 

the Board’s procedures for adjudicating 

abandonment and feeder line cases. 

Date/Location: The public hearing 

will take place on August 21, 2008, 

beginning at 9:30 a.m., at the Wayne L. 

Morse U.S. Courthouse, 405 East Eighth 

Avenue, Eugene, Oregon, in Room 2200 

(the Jury Assembly Room). Any person 

wishing to speak at the hearing must file 

with the Board a written notice of intent 

to participate, identifying (1) the party 

represented, (2) the proposed speaker, 

and (3) the number of minutes 

requested. Notices of intent to 

participate should be filed as soon as 

possible, but no later than August 11, 

2008. Following receipt of notices of 

intent, the Board will release a schedule 

of speakers for the hearing. 

The public information session will 

be held on August 21, 2008 from 8:15–

9:15 a.m., in Room 1702 (the GSA 

Conference Room) of the Wayne L. 

Morse U.S. Courthouse, 405 East Eighth 

Avenue, Eugene, Oregon. At that 

session, Board staff will discuss, and be 

available to answer questions regarding, 

the procedures the Board uses in 

processing abandonment and feeder line 

cases. No notice of intent to participate 

in the public information session is 

necessary. 

The Wayne L. Morse U.S. Courthouse 

is open Monday through Friday from 8 

a.m. to 5 p.m. All visitors must present 

a valid form of government-issued photo 

identification and pass screening before 

being granted access into the building. 

Cameras are not permitted in the 

building. Visitors will have access to 

public areas only. 

ADDRESSES: Notices of intent to 

participate in the hearing may be 

submitted either via the Board’s e-filing 

format or in the traditional paper 

format. Any person using e-filing should 

attach a document and otherwise 

comply with the Board’s http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov Web site, at the ‘‘EFILING’’ link. Any person submitting a 

filing in the traditional paper format 

should send the filing to: Surface 

Transportation Board, Attn: STB Docket 

No. AB–515 (Sub-No. 2) and STB 

Finance Docket No. 35160, 395 E Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20423–0001. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: 

Joseph Dettmar, (202) 245–0395. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at: 

(800) 877–8339.] 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A decision 

served in STB Docket No. AB–515 (SubNo. 2) on July 29, 2008, provided that 

a public meeting will be held to permit 

interested persons to express their views 

about the application filed under 49 

U.S.C. 10903 by Central Oregon & 

Pacific Railroad, Inc. (CORP) on July 14, 

2008, for permission to abandon and 

discontinue service over portions of a 

line of railroad known as the Coos Bay 

Subdivision. CORP seeks authority to 

abandon certain portions of the Coos 

Bay Subdivision that it owns, namely 

the line extending from milepost 669.0 

near Vaughn, OR, to milepost 763.13 

near Cordes, OR, a distance of 94.13 

miles. CORP also seeks authority to 

discontinue service over the portions of 

the Coos Bay Subdivision that it leases: 

(1) The Coquille Branch extending from 

milepost 763.13 near Cordes to milepost 

785.5 near Coquille, OR, a distance of 

22.37 miles, in Coos County, OR, and (2) 

the LPN Branch extending between 

CORP milepost 738.8 and LPN Branch 

milepost 2.0, a distance of 2.0 miles. 

Additionally, a decision served in 

STB Finance Docket No. 35160 on 

August 1, 2008, accepted a feeder line 

application under 49 U.S.C. 10907 filed 

by the Oregon International Port of Coos 

Bay on July 11, 2008, to acquire 

approximately 111.016 miles of CORP’s 

rail line between milepost 763.130, near 

Cordes, and milepost 652.114, near 

Danebo, OR. In that decision, the Board 

also announced a procedural schedule 

for the proceeding. Notice of the Board’s 

acceptance of the application will be 

published in the Federal Register by 

August 8, 2008. 

At the hearing, the Board will hear 

testimony in both the abandonment 

proceeding and the feeder line 

proceeding. Speakers at the hearing 

may, but are not required to, bring 

written copies of their testimony to the 

hearing and offer those statements for 

the record in the proceedings. Speakers 

who wish to enhance their presentation 

by using projector-adaptable visual 

displays and/or handouts may do so. 

Any projector-adaptable visual displays 

must be submitted to the Board in 

electronic form by August 15, 2008. 

Interested persons should also consult 

the procedural schedules in the feeder 

line and abandonment dockets for other 

opportunities to submit written 

comments in those proceedings. Live 

audio/video streaming of the hearing 

will not be available. 

This action will not significantly 

affect either the quality of the human 

environment or the conservation of 

energy resources. 

Dated: August 1, 2008. 

Anne K. Quinlan, 

Acting Secretary. 

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