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Impact Report published on October 3, 

2008. 

2. Project name and location: MiamiDade Orange Line Phase 2: North 

Corridor Metrorail Extension, Miami, 

Florida (the ‘‘Project’’). Project sponsor: 

Miami-Dade Transit Project description: 

The FTA and Miami-Dade Transit 

prepared a Supplemental 

Environmental Assessment on changes 

made to the Project after FTA signed a 

Record of Decision on April 26, 2007. 

The Project involves a 9.2-mile heavy 

rail transit extension of the existing 

Metrorail system that would run along 

NW. 27th Avenue from NW. 76th Street 

to NW. 215th Street. Changes to the 

Project introduced since the ROD 

include modifying the location and 

layout of the NW. 82nd Street Station, 

identifying a new relocation site for the 

North Central Branch Library, shifting 

the alignment and station configuration 

at NW. 103rd Street Station, identifying 

a new location for the NW. 119th Street 

Station, and proposing new locations for 

the Park and Ride facilities at NW. 

199th Street and NW. 215th Street 

Station Park and Ride Facilities. Final 

agency actions: FONSI signed on 

November 7, 2008; Section 106 Finding 

of No Historic Properties Affected. 

Supporting documentation: Miami-Dade 

Orange Line Phase 2: North Corridor 

Metrorail Extension Supplemental 

Environmental Assessment published in 

August 2008. 

3. Project name and location: South 

Sacramento Corridor Phase 2 Extension 

Project, Sacramento, California. Project 

sponsor: Sacramento Regional Transit 

District (RT). Project description: FTA 

and RT have prepared a Supplemental 

Final Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Subsequent Final Environmental Impact 

Report for a 4.3-mile Light Rail Transit 

(LRT) extension from the South Line at 

Meadowview Road to Cosumnes River 

College. The LRT project includes the 

construction of four stations at Morrison 

Creek, Franklin, Center Parkway, and 

the Cosumnes River College. Final 

agency actions: ROD signed on 

December 18, 2008; Project-level Air 

Quality Conformity determination; 

Consultation with U.S. Department of 

Interior (DOI) under Section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act resulting in 

DOI’s issuance of a Biological Opinion; 

Section 106 Finding of No Historic 

Properties Affected. Supporting 

documentation: Supplemental Final 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Subsequent Final Environmental Impact 

Report for the South Sacramento 

Corridor Phase 2 Extension Project 

published on October 17, 2008. 

4. Project name and location: Access 

to the Region’s Core Project (ARC), 

Hudson County, New Jersey and New 

York City, New York. Project sponsor: 

New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit). Project 

description: FTA and NJ Transit have 

completed a Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for a 7.6 mile 

commuter rail project that includes a 

new commuter rail tunnel under the 

Hudson River from New Jersey into 

Manhattan, a new commuter rail station 

near the existing Penn Station New 

York, and the track capacity expansion 

of the Northeast Corridor in New Jersey 

from the Koppers Coke site in Kearny 

through the Frank R. Lautenberg Station 

in Secaucusto the portal of the new 

Hudson River tunnel near Tonnelle 

Avenue. Key components of the project 

include a new direct connection at 

Secaucus between the Northeast 

Corridor and the Main, Bergen County, 

and Pascack Valley lines; two new 

single track tunnels under the Palisades 

in New Jersey and the Hudson River and 

through the west side of Manhattan to 

the new underground 6-track station 

that will end at Fifth Avenue and West 

34th Street in Manhattan; and a mid-day 

train storage yard on the Koppers Coke 

site, two fan plants/construction access 

shafts in New Jersey, and four fan 

plants/construction access shafts in 

Manhattan. Final agency actions: ROD 

signed on January 14, 2009, Project-level 

Air Quality Conformity Determination, 

Section 4(f) finding, Section 106 

Programmatic Agreement dated October 

13, 2008, Finding of no practicable 

alternative to significant encroachment 

into floodplains in accordance with 

Executive Order 11988, and Finding of 

no practicable alternative to new 

construction in wetlands in accordance 

with Executive Order 11990. Supporting 

documentation: Access to the Region’s 

Core Project Final Environmental 

Impact Statement published on 

November 7, 2008. 

Issued on: January 15, 2009. 

Susan Borinsky, 

Associate Administrator for Planning and 

Environment, Washington, DC. 

[FR Doc. E9–1408 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Additional Designation of Four 

Individuals Pursuant to Executive 

Order 13224 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Treasury Department’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the name of 

four newly-designated individuals 

whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to 

Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 

2001, ‘‘Blocking Property and 

Prohibiting Transactions With Persons 

Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or 

Support Terrorism.’’ 

DATES: The designation by the Director 

of OFAC of the four individuals 

identified in this notice, pursuant to 

Executive Order 13224, is effective on 

January 16, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Compliance 

Outreach & Implementation, Office of 

Foreign Assets Control, Department of 

the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, 

tel.: 202/622–2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available from OFAC’s Web site 

(http://www.treas.gov/ofac) or via 

facsimile through a 24-hour fax-ondemand service, tel.: 202/622–0077. 

Background 

On September 23, 2001, the President 

issued Executive Order 13224 (the 

‘‘Order’’) pursuant to the International 

Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 

U.S.C. 1701–1706, and the United 

Nations Participation Act of 1945, 22 

U.S.C. 287c. In the Order, the President 

declared a national emergency to 

address grave acts of terrorism and 

threats of terrorism committed by 

foreign terrorists, including the 

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in 

New York, Pennsylvania, and at the 

Pentagon. The Order imposes economic 

sanctions on persons who have 

committed, pose a significant risk of 

committing, or support acts of terrorism. 

The President identified in the Annex to 

the Order, as amended by Executive 

Order 13268 of July 2, 2002, 13 

individuals and 16 entities as subject to 

the economic sanctions. The Order was 

further amended by Executive Order 

13284 of January 23, 2003, to reflect the 

creation of the Department of Homeland 

Security. 

Section 1 of the Order blocks, with 

certain exceptions, all property and 

interests in property that are in or 

hereafter come within the United States 

or the possession or control of United 

States persons, of: (1) Foreign persons 

listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) 

foreign persons determined by the 

Secretary of State, in consultation with 

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the Secretary of the Treasury, the 

Secretary of the Department of 

Homeland Security and the Attorney 

General, to have committed, or to pose 

a significant risk of committing, acts of 

terrorism that threaten the security of 

U.S. nationals or the national security, 

foreign policy, or economy of the United 

States; (3) persons determined by the 

Director of OFAC, in consultation with 

the Departments of State, Homeland 

Security and Justice, to be owned or 

controlled by, or to act for or on behalf 

of those persons listed in the Annex to 

the Order or those persons determined 

to be subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or 

1(d)(i) of the Order; and (4) except as 

provided in section 5 of the Order and 

after such consultation, if any, with 

foreign authorities as the Secretary of 

State, in consultation with the Secretary 

of the Treasury, the Secretary of the 

Department of Homeland Security and 

the Attorney General, deems 

appropriate in the exercise of his 

discretion, persons determined by the 

Director of OFAC, in consultation with 

the Departments of State, Homeland 

Security and Justice, to assist in, 

sponsor, or provide financial, material, 

or technological support for, or financial 

or other services to or in support of, 

such acts of terrorism or those persons 

listed in the Annex to the Order or 

determined to be subject to the Order or 

to be otherwise associated with those 

persons listed in the Annex to the Order 

or those persons determined to be 

subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or 1(d)(i) 

of the Order. 

On January 16, 2009, the Director of 

OFAC, in consultation with the 

Departments of State, Homeland 

Security, Justice and other relevant 

agencies, designated, pursuant to one or 

more of the criteria set forth in 

subsections 1(b), 1(c) or 1(d) of the 

Order, four individuals whose property 

and interests in property are blocked 

pursuant to Executive Order 13224. 

The designees are as follows: 

1. AL-BAHTIYTI, Muhammad Rab’a 

al-Sayid (a.k.a. AL-BAHTITI, 

Muhammad Mahmud; a.k.a. ALBAHTITI, Muhammad Mahmud Rabi’ 

al-Zayd; a.k.a. AL-BAHTITI, 

Muhammad Rabi’; a.k.a. AL-HATITI, 

Muhammad Rabi’ al-Sa’id; a.k.a. ALMASRI, Abu Dujana); DOB 1971; POB 

al-Sharqiyyah, Egypt; nationality Egypt 

(individual) [SDGT] 

2. BIN LADEN, Sa’ad (a.k.a. ABBUD, 

Bin Muhammad Awad; a.k.a. ABUD, 

Sa’ad Muhammad Awad; a.k.a. ADBUD, 

Muhammad ’Awad; a.k.a. AWAD, 

Muhammad; a.k.a. BAABOOD, Sa’ad 

Muhammad; a.k.a. BIN LADEN, Sad; 

a.k.a. ‘‘AL-KAHTANE, Abdul 

Rahman’’); DOB 1982; POB Saudi 

Arabia; nationality Saudi Arabia; 

Passport 520951 (Sudan); alt. Passport 

530951 (Sudan) (individual) [SDGT] 

3. HAMID, Mustafa (a.k.a. AL-MASRI, 

Abu al-Walid; a.k.a. AL-MISRI, Abu 

Walid; a.k.a. AL-WALID, Abu; a.k.a. 

ATIYA, Mustafa; a.k.a. HAMID, Mustafa 

Muhammad ’Atiya; a.k.a. ‘‘AL-MAKKI, 

Hashim’’); DOB Mar 1945; POB 

Alexandria, Egypt; nationality Egypt; 

alt. nationality Pakistan (individual) 

[SDGT] 

4. HUSAIN, Ali Saleh (a.k.a. 

’ALA’LAH, ’Ali Salih Husayn; a.k.a. ALTABUKI, Ali Saleh Husain; a.k.a. ALTABUKI, ’Ali Salih Husayn al-Dhahak; 

a.k.a. AL-YEMENI, Abu Dhahak; a.k.a. 

DAHHAK, Abu; a.k.a. ’ULA’LAH, ’Ali 

Salih Husayn); DOB circa 1970; POB alHudaydah, Yemen; nationality Yemen; 

Individual’s height is 5 feet 9 inches. 

(individual) [SDGT] 

Dated: January 16, 2009. 

Adam J. Szubin, 

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control. 

[FR Doc. E9–1594 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4811–45–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0695] 

Agency Information Collection 

(Application for Reimbursement of 

Licensing or Certification Test Fees) 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3521), this notice 

announces that the Veterans Benefits 

Administration (VBA), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, will submit the 

collection of information abstracted 

below to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and comment. 

The PRA submission describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its expected cost and burden; it includes 

the actual data collection instrument. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before February 25, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the collection of information through 

www.Regulations.gov or to VA’s OMB 

Desk Officer, OMB Human Resources 

and Housing Branch, New Executive 

Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503 (202) 395–7316. 

Please refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900– 

0695’’ in any correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise McLamb, Enterprise Records 

Service (005R1B), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461– 

7485, FAX (202) 273–0443 or e-mail 

denise.mclamb@va.gov. Please refer to 

‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0695.’’ 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Application for Reimbursement 

of Licensing or Certification Test Fees, 

38 CFR 21.1030(b), 21–7140(c)(4), VA 

Form 22–0803. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0695. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: Claimants complete VA 

Form 22–0803 to request reimbursement 

of licensing or certification fees paid. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published on 

November 10, 2008, at pages 66691– 

66692. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,000 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondents: 15 minutes. 

Estimated Annual Responses: 4,000. 

Dated: January 14, 2009. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

Denise McLamb, 

Program Analyst, Enterprise Records Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–1579 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0353] 

Agency Information Collection 

(Certification of Lessons Completed) 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3521), this notice 

announces that the Veterans Benefits 

Administration (VBA), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, will submit the 

collection of information abstracted 

below to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and comment. 

The PRA submission describes the