1470 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 6 / Friday, January 9, 2015 / Notices 

1The Board granted GCEDC authority to 

discontinue service over the Line in 2005. See 

Greenville Cnty. Econ. Dev. Corp.—Aban. & 

Discontinuance Exemption—in Greenville Cnty., 

S.C., AB 490 (Sub-No. 1X) (STB served Oct. 12, 

2005). Since 2005, GCEDC has provided no local or 

overhead common carrier service over the Line, and 

it asserts that it has not received any requests for 

common carrier service over the Line. 

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 $1,600. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• Web site: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Operations Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal Holidays. 

Communications received by 

February 23, 2015 will be considered by 

FRA before final action is taken. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered as far as practicable. 

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of any written 

communications and comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the document, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). See http:// 

www.regulations.gov/#!privacyNotice 

for the privacy notice of regulations.gov 

or interested parties may review DOT’s 

complete Privacy Act Statement in the 

Federal Register published on April 11, 

2000 (65 FR 19477). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 5, 

2015. 

Ron Hynes, 

Director, Office of Technical Oversight. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00114 Filed 1–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. AB 490 (Sub-No. 2X)] 

Greenville County Economic 

Development Corporation— 

Abandonment Exemption—in 

Greenville County, S.C. 

Greenville County Economic 

Development Corporation (GCEDC) has 

filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR part 1152 subpart F— 

Exempt Abandonments for GCEDC to 

abandon approximately 3.29 miles of 

railroad line extending between 

milepost AJK 585.34 in East Greenville, 

S.C., and milepost AJK 588.63 in 

Greenville, S.C. (the Line). The Line 

traverses United States Postal Service 

Zip Code 29607 and is located in 

Greenville County, S.C.1

GCEDC has certified that: (1) No local 

traffic has moved over the Line for at 

least two years; (2) no overhead traffic 

has moved over the Line for at least two 

years, and overhead traffic, if there were 

any, could be rerouted over other lines; 

(3) no formal complaint has been 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, and 

no such complaint is either pending 

with the Surface Transportation Board 

(Board) or with any U.S. District Court 

or has been decided in favor of a 

complainant within the two-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 Railroad— 

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 February 

8, 2015, 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 

interim trail use/rail banking requests 

under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be filed by 

January 20, 2015. Petitions to reopen or 

requests for public use conditions under 

49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by January 

29, 2015, 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 GCEDC’s 

representative: William A. Mullins, 

Baker & Miller PLLC, 2401 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC 

20037. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

GCEDC has filed a combined 

environmental and historic report that 

addresses the effects, if any, of the 

abandonment on the environment and 

historic resources. OEA will issue an 

environmental assessment (EA) by 

January 16, 2015. 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 at 

(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 interim 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), GCEDC 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 GCEDC’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by January 9, 2016, 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 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: January 6, 2015. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00151 Filed 1–8–15; 8:45 am] 

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