Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 203 / Thursday, October 21, 2010 / Notices 65047 

1On October 7, 2010, UP supplemented its notice 

of exemption. 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. Mail, e-mail, or 

fax your comments and 

recommendations on the information 

collection to the OMB Desk Officer and 

SSA Reports Clearance Officer to the 

following addresses or fax numbers. 

(OMB), Office of Management and 

Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA. 

Fax: 202–395–6974. E-mail address: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

(SSA), Social Security Administration, 

DCBFM, Attn: Reports Clearance 

Officer, 1333 Annex Building, 6401 

Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235. 

Fax: 410–965–6400. E-mail address: 

OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov. 

SSA has submitted the information 

collection listed below to OMB for 

clearance. Your comments on the 

information collection would be most 

useful if OMB and SSA receive them 

within 30 days from the date of this 

publication. To be sure we consider 

your comments, we must receive them 

no later than November 22, 2010. You 

can obtain a copy of the OMB clearance 

package by calling the SSA Reports 

Clearance Officer at 410–965–8783 or by 

writing to the above e-mail address. 

Benefit Offset National 

Demonstration—0960–NEW. SSA is 

undertaking the Benefit Offset National 

Demonstration (BOND)—a 

demonstration and evaluation of policy 

changes and services on the Social 

Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) 

program—in an effort to produce strong 

evidence about the effectiveness of 

potential solutions that would improve 

the historically very low rate of return 

to work among SSDI beneficiaries. 

Under current law, Social Security 

beneficiaries lose their SSDI benefit if 

they have earnings and/or work activity 

above the threshold of Substantial 

Gainful Activity after completing the 

Trial Work Period and two-month grace 

period. The benefit-offset component of 

this demonstration will reduce benefits 

by $1 for each $2 in earnings above the 

BOND threshold, resulting in a gradual 

reduction in benefits as earnings 

increase. 

The experimental design for BOND 

will test a benefit offset alone and in 

conjunction with enhanced work 

incentives counseling. The central 

research questions include: 

• What is the effect of the benefit 

offset alone on employment and other 

outcomes? 

• What is the effect of the benefit 

offset in combination with enhanced 

work incentives counseling on 

employment and other outcomes? 

The proposed public survey data 

collections will have four components— 

an impact study, a cost-benefit analysis, 

a participation analysis, and a process 

study. The data collections are a 

primary source for data to measure the 

effects of a more generous benefit offset 

and the provision of enhanced work 

incentives counseling on SSDI 

beneficiaries’ work efforts and earnings. 

Ultimately, these data will benefit 

researchers, policy analysts, policy 

makers and the United States Congress 

in a wide range of program areas. The 

effects of BOND on the well-being of 

SSDI beneficiaries could manifest 

themselves in many dimensions and 

could be relevant to an array of other 

public programs. This project offers the 

first opportunity to obtain reliable 

measures of these effects based upon a 

nationally representative sample. The 

long-term indirect benefits of this 

research are therefore likely to be 

substantial. Respondents are SSDI 

beneficiaries and concurrent SSDI and 

Supplemental Security Income 

beneficiaries who we randomly assign 

to the study (Stage 1), and SSDI 

beneficiaries who agree to participate in 

the study (Stage 2). 

Type of Request: Request for a new 

information collection. 

Note: This is a correction notice. We 

updated the burden figures, shown below, 

since we published the 60-day Federal 

Register Notice for this collection on August 

12, 2010 at 75 FR 49013. 

Survey Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Number of 

responses 

Average burden 

per response 

(minutes) 

Total annual 

burden 

(hours) 

Participation Agreement ................................... 12,600 1 12,600 20 4,200 

Baseline Survey ............................................... 12,600 1 12,600 41 8,610 

Interim Survey .................................................. 10,080 1 10,080 29 4,872 

Stage 1 36-month Survey ................................ 8,000 1 8,000 49 6,533 

Stage 2 36-month Survey ................................ 10,080 1 10,080 60 10,080 

Enhanced Work Incentives Assessment ......... 3,000 1 3,000 35 1,750 

Key Informant Interviews ................................. 100 7 700 60 700 

Stage 2 Participant Focus Groups .................. 600 1 600 90 900 

Totals ........................................................ 57,060 ............................ 57,660 ............................ 37,645 

Dated: October 15, 2010. 

Faye Lipsky, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Center for Reports 

Clearance, Social Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26384 Filed 10–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. AB 33 (Sub-No. 289X)] 

Union Pacific Railroad Company— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Pulaski 

County, AR 

Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR part 1152 subpart F– 

Exempt Abandonments to abandon a 

4.04-mile portion of its Camp Robinson 

Spur extending from milepost 345.64 to 

the end of the line at milepost 349.68, 

in Pulaski County, Ark.1 The line 

traverses United States Postal Service 

Zip Code 72118. 

UP has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the line for at 

least 2 years; (2) there is no overhead 

traffic on the line to be rerouted; (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 (Board) or 

with any U.S. District Court or has been 

decided in favor of complainant within 


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2The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental 

Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation) 

cannot be made before the exemption’s effective 

date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. 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. 

3Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which is currently set at $1,500. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

the 2-year period; and (4) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(c) 

(environmental 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—Abandonment 

Portion Goshen Branch Between Firth & 

Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville 

Counties, Idaho, 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 

November 20, 2010, unless stayed 

pending reconsideration. Petitions to 

stay that do not involve environmental 

issues,2 formal expressions of intent to 

file an OFA under 49 CFR 

1152.27(c)(2),3 and trail use/rail banking 

requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be 

filed by November 1, 2010. Petitions to 

reopen or requests for public use 

conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must 

be filed by November 10, 2010, 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 UP’s 

representative: Mack H. Shumate, Jr., 

Senior General Attorney, Union Pacific 

Railroad Company, 101 N. Wacker 

Drive, #1920, Chicago, IL 60606–1718. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

UP has filed a combined 

environmental and historic report 

which addresses the effects, if any, of 

the abandonment on the environment 

and historic resources. OEA will issue 

an environmental assessment (EA) by 

October 26, 2010. Interested persons 

may obtain a copy of the EA by writing 

to OEA (Room 1100, Surface 

Transportation Board, Washington, DC 

20423–0001) or by calling OEA, 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), UP 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 

UP’s filing of a notice of consummation 

by October 21, 2011, 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: October 18, 2010. 

By the Board. 

Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Andrea Pope-Matheson, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26543 Filed 10–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 703X)] 

CSX Transportation, Inc.— 

Abandonment Exemption—in 

Chesterfield and Darlington Counties, 

SC 

On October 1, 2010, CSX 

Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), filed with 

the Surface Transportation Board a 

petition under 49 U.S.C. 10502 for 

exemption from the provisions of 49 

U.S.C. 10903 to abandon a 2.71-mile 

line of railroad on its Southern Region, 

Florence Division, Hamlet Subdivision, 

between milepost SJ 304.75, at 

Tabernacle Road, and milepost SJ 

307.46, at Bobo Newsome Highway, in 

Chesterfield and Darlington Counties, 

S.C. (the line). The line traverses United 

States Postal Service Zip Codes 29101 

and 29550 and includes stations at 

Darlco, FSAC 71202366, OPSL 2638, 

milepost SJ 306, and Robinson, FSAC 

71202370, OPSL 2640, milepost SJ 307. 

In addition to an exemption from the 

prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 

10903, CSXT seeks an exemption from 

49 U.S.C. 10904 (offer of financial 

assistance procedures). In support, 

CSXT states that, following 

abandonment of the line, CSXT intends 

to reclassify the line as spur track and 

sell or lease it to Progress Energy 

Carolinas, Inc. (PEC), the sole shipper 

on the line, which will then use the line 

for expanded intra-plant operations. 

This request will be addressed in the 

final decision. In order to facilitate the 

reclassification of the line as spur track 

and the subsequent sale or lease of the 

line to PEC, CSXT has requested that the 

Board condition the abandonment upon 

CSXT and PEC entering an agreement 

providing for the sale or lease of the line 

from CSXT to PEC within 30 days after 

CSXT has consummated the 

abandonment and reclassified the line 

as spur track. This request will also be 

addressed in the final decision. 

The line does not contain federally 

granted rights-of-way. Any 

documentation in CSXT’s possession 

concerning this matter will be made 

available promptly to those requesting 

it. 

The interest of railroad employees 

will be protected by the conditions set 

forth in Oregon Short Line Railroad— 

Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch 

Between Firth & Ammon, In Bingham & 

Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 

91 (1979). 

By issuing this notice, the Board is 

instituting an exemption proceeding 

pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10502(b). A final 

decision will be issued by January 19, 

2011. 

Any offer of financial assistance 

(OFA) under 49 CFR 1152.27(b)(2) will 

be due no later than 10 days after 

service of a decision granting the 

petition for exemption. Each OFA must 

be accompanied by a $1,500 filing fee. 

See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25). 

All interested persons should be 

aware that, following abandonment of 

rail service and salvage of the line, the 

line may be suitable for other public 

use, including interim trail use. Any 

request for a public use condition under 

49 CFR 1152.28 or for trail use/rail 

banking under 49 CFR 1152.29 will be 

due no later than November 10, 2010. 

Each trail use request must be 

accompanied by a $250 filing fee. See 49 

CFR 1002.2(f)(27). 

All filings in response to this notice 

must refer to Docket No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 

703X), and must be sent to: (1) Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001; and (2) 

Louis E. Gitomer, Law Offices of Louis 

E. Gitomer, 600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 

301, Towson, MD 21204. Replies to 

CSXT’s petition are due on or before 

November 10, 2010. 

Persons seeking further information 

concerning abandonment procedures 


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