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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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