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Silvermine Drive to U.S. 290 in Travis 

County. The proposed improvements 

were originally considered in a Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 

covering improvements to U.S. 290/SH 

71 from RM 1826 to Farm to Market 

(FM) 973. A Record of Decision (ROD) 

was issued by FHWA on August 22, 

1988. The mid-section of the original 

project limits, between east of 

Williamson Creek and Riverside Drive, 

has been constructed. Since the 

issuance of the U.S. 290/SH 71 ROD, the 

proposed design concept for the current 

project has changed as a result of 

changes in adjacent land use, State and 

federal listing of the Barton Springs 

salamander as endangered, changes in 

funding mechanisms to include tolling, 

a proposed shift in the alignment, and 

public input. The original FEIS will be 

supplemented to evaluate the changes 

in potential impacts from the proposed 

improvements. The proposed project 

limits of the U.S. 290/SH 71 limited 

scope SEIS would extend beyond the 

limits of the original FEIS to allow for 

a transition back to existing U.S. 290 

west of Scenic Brook Drive and along 

SH 71 at Silvermine Drive. The 

proposed project limits, including 

transitional area, cover approximately 

3.6 miles along U.S. 290 and 1.2 miles 

along SH 71. 

The project is listed in the Capital 

Area Metro Planning Organization 

(CAMPO) Mobility 2030 Plan, as 

amended, (the long-range transportation 

plan) as a six-lane tolled freeway west 

of Scenic Brook to east of Williamson 

Creek. The proposed action would 

include continuous non-tolled frontage 

roads with two to three lanes in each 

direction. The need for the proposed 

project, as stated in the 1988 FEIS, 

stems from congestion and low travel 

speeds caused by rapid population 

growth in the Austin metropolitan area. 

Crash data have also indicated safety 

concerns as a primary need for this 

project. Additionally, the economic 

growth of the U.S. 290/SH 71 corridor 

is dependent on the ability of the 

roadway network to accommodate both 

local trips created by recent nearby 

development as well as regional through 

traffic. In order to address these needs, 

the purpose of the proposed project is 

to increase traffic flow capacities and 

improve mobility in the roadway 

corridor while enhancing safety and 

system interconnectivity, in compliance 

with the adopted CAMPO Mobility 2030 

Plan. 

The SEIS will evaluate potential 

impacts from construction and 

operation of the proposed roadway 

including, but not limited to, the 

following: Transportation impacts 

(construction detours, construction 

traffic, and mobility improvement), air 

quality and noise impacts from 

construction equipment and operation 

of the facilities, water quality impacts 

from construction area and roadway 

storm water runoff, impacts to waters of 

the United States including wetlands 

from right-of-way encroachment, 

impacts to historic and archaeological 

resources, impacts to floodplains, and 

impacts and/or displacements to 

residents and businesses, land use, 

vegetation, wildlife, aesthetic and visual 

resources, socioeconomic resources, and 

cumulative and indirect impacts. 

Public involvement is a critical 

component of the project development 

process and will occur throughout the 

planning and study phases. A public 

scoping meeting is planned, but has not 

yet been scheduled. The purpose of the 

public scoping meeting is to solicit 

public comments on the proposed 

action as part of the National 

Environmental Policy Act process. 

Opportunities for public involvement 

would also exist during public meetings 

and public review of the draft SEIS. 

Letters describing the proposed action 

and soliciting comments will be sent to 

the appropriate Federal, State, and local 

agencies, and private organizations and 

citizens who have previously expressed 

or are known to have interest in this 

proposal. To ensure that the full range 

of issues related to this proposed action 

is addressed and all significant issues 

are identified, comments and 

suggestions are invited from all 

interested parties. Comments or 

questions concerning this proposed 

action and the SEIS should be directed 

to FHWA at the address above. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Number 20.205, Highway, Planning, 

and Construction. The regulations 

implementing Executive Order 12372 

regarding intergovernmental consultation on 

Federal programs and activities apply to this 

program.) 

Issued on August 6, 2008. 

Salvador Deocampo, 

District Engineer. 

[FR Doc. E8–18956 Filed 8–14–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2008–0211] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection: 

Application for Certificate of 

Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers 

and Foreign Motor Private Carriers 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

information. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit an 

Information Collection Request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval. FMCSA 

requests approval to revise an existing 

information collection (IC) entitled, 

‘‘Application for Certificate of 

Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers 

and Foreign Motor Private Carriers,’’

that requires Mexico-domiciled for-hire 

and private motor carriers to file an 

application Form OP–2 if they wish to 

register to transport property only 

within municipalities in the United 

States on the U.S.-Mexico international 

borders or within the commercial zones 

of such municipalities. On June 9, 2008, 

FMCSA published a Federal Register 

notice announcing for a 60-day 

comment period on the ICR. No 

comments were received on the ICR. 

DATES: Please send your comments by 

September 15, 2008. OMB must receive 

your comments by this date in order to 

act quickly on the ICR. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should 

reference DOT Docket No. FMCSA–

2008–0211. You may submit comments 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 

Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk 

Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Denise Ryan, Transportation Specialist, 

Office of Information Technology, 

Operations Division, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, 6th Floor, West 

Building, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., 

Washington DC 20590. Telephone 

Number: (202) 493–0242; E-mail 

Address: denise.ryan@dot.gov. Office 

hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal 

Holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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1The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Section of 

Environmental Analysis (SEA) 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 Board may take appropriate action before 

the exemption’s effective date. 

2Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which, as of July 18, 2008, is set at $1500. See 

49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25). 

Title: Application for Certificate of 

Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers 

and Foreign Motor Private Carriers. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0019. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Foreign motor carriers 

and commercial motor vehicle drivers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

615. 

Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours 

to complete Form OP–2. 

Expiration Date: August 31, 2008. 

Frequency of Response: Other (Once). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

2,460 hours [615 responses × 4 hours to 

complete Form OP–2 = 2,460]. 

Background: Title 49 U.S.C. 13902(c) 

contains basic licensing procedures for 

registering foreign motor carriers to 

operate across the Mexico-U.S. border 

into the United States. Part 368 of title 

49, CFR, contains the regulations that 

require Mexico-domiciled motor carriers 

to apply to FMCSA for a Certificate of 

Registration to provide interstate 

transportation in municipalities in the 

United States on the U.S.-Mexico 

international border or within the 

commercial zones of such 

municipalities as defined in 49 U.S.C. 

13902(c)(4)(A). FMCSA carries out this 

registration program under authority 

delegated by the Secretary of 

Transportation. 

Foreign (Mexico-based) motor carriers 

use Form OP–2 to apply for a Certificate 

of Registration from the FMCSA. The 

form requests information on the foreign 

motor carrier’s name, address, U.S. DOT 

Number, form of business (e.g., 

corporation, sole proprietorship, 

partnership), locations where the 

applicant plans to operate, types of 

registration requested (e.g., for-hire 

motor carrier, motor private carrier), 

insurance, safety certifications, 

household goods arbitration 

certifications, and compliance 

certifications. 

Public Comments Invited: You may 

comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the FMCSA to perform it’s 

functions; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (3) ways for the 

FMCSA to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the collected 

information; and (4) ways that the 

burden could be minimized without 

reducing the quality of the collected 

information. 

Issued on: August 6, 2008. 

Terry Shelton, 

Associate Administrator for Research and 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. E8–18902 Filed 8–14–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub-No. 687X)] 

CSX Transportation, Inc.—

Abandonment Exemption—in Fulton 

and Clayton Counties, GA 

CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) has 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt 

Abandonments to abandon a 1.67-mile 

line of railroad on its Southern Region, 

Atlanta Division, Atlanta Terminal 

Subdivision in College Park, between 

Valuation Station 0+00 and the end of 

the line, Valuation Station 88+00, in 

Fulton and Clayton Counties, GA. The 

line traverses United States Postal 

Service Zip Code 30337. 

CSXT has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on 

the line can be 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 Surface Transportation Board 

or with any U.S. District Court or has 

been decided in favor of complainant 

within the 2-year period; and (4) the 

requirements of 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 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. 10502(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 

September 13, 2008, 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 must be 

filed by August 25, 2008. Petitions to 

reopen or requests for public use 

conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must 

be filed by September 3, 2008, with the 

Surface Transportation Board, 395 E 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423–

0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to CSXT’s 

representative: Louis E. Gitomer, 600 

Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301, Towson, 

MD 21204. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

CSXT has filed an environmental and 

historic report addressing the effects, if 

any, of the abandonment on the 

environment and historic resources. 

SEA will issue an environmental 

assessment (EA) by August 19, 2008. 

Interested persons may obtain a copy of 

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 1100, 

Surface Transportation Board, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by 

calling SEA, at (202) 245–0305. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.] Comments on 

environmental and historic preservation 

matters must be filed within 15 days 

after the EA becomes available to the 

public. 

Environmental, historic preservation, 

public use, or trail use/rail banking 

conditions will be imposed, where 

appropriate, in a subsequent decision. 

Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR 

1152.29(e)(2), CSXT shall file a notice of 

consummation with the Board to signify 

that it has exercised the authority 

granted and fully abandoned the line. If 

consummation has not been effected by 

CSXT’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by August 14, 2009, and 

there are no legal or regulatory barriers 

to consummation, the authority to 

abandon will automatically expire. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: August 11, 2008. 

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