39644 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 160 / Monday, August 21, 2017 / Notices 

1The Line CERA seeks to discontinue service 

over is a portion of a 15.9-mile line that CERA was 

authorized to lease and operate pursuant to an 

agreement with NSR. See Cent. R.R. Co. of Ind.— 

Lease & Operation Exemption—Norfolk S. Ry., FD 

35300 (STB served Oct. 21, 2009). 

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 exemptions’ 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 exemptions’ 

effective date. 

3Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which is currently set at $1,700. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(25). Effective September 1, 2017, the fee 

will become $1,800. See Regulations Governing 

Fees for Servs. Performed in Connection with 

Licensing & Related Servs.—2017 Update, EP 542 

(Sub-No. 25), slip op. App. C at 20 (STB served July 

28, 2017). 

Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 

(112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 

note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority 

No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation 

of Authority No. 236–3 of August 28, 

2000 (and, as appropriate, Delegation of 

Authority No. 257–1 of December 11, 

2015). I have ordered that Public Notice 

of these Determinations be published in 

the Federal Register. 

Alyson Grunder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2017–17610 Filed 8–18–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 392X); Docket 

No. AB 511 (Sub-No. 7X)] 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Hartford 

City, Ind.; Central Railroad Company of 

Indianapolis—Discontinuance of Lease 

and Operation Authority—in Hartford 

City, Ind. 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 

(NSR) and Central Railroad Company of 

Indianapolis (CERA) (collectively, 

Applicants), have jointly filed a verified 

notice of exemption under 49 CFR part 

1152 subpart F—Exempt Abandonments 

and Discontinuances of Service for NSR 

to abandon, and for CERA to 

discontinue service over, an 

approximately 0.2-mile rail line 

between milepost RK 138.6 and 

milepost 138.8 in Hartford City, Ind. 

(the Line).1 The Line traverses United 

States Postal Service Zip Code 47348. 

Applicants have certified that: (1) No 

local or overhead traffic has moved over 

the Line for at least two years; (2) 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 

the two-year period; and (3) 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 these exemptions, 

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, 

these exemptions will be effective on 

September 20, 2017, 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 August 31, 2017. Petitions to 

reopen or requests for public use 

conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must 

be filed by September 8, 2017, 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 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 exemptions 

are void ab initio. 

Applicants have 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 

August 25, 2017. 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), NSR 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 

NSR’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by August 21, 2018, 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.GOV. 

Decided: August 16, 2017. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Rena Laws-Byrum, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2017–17598 Filed 8–18–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

Meeting No. 17–03 

The TVA Board of Directors will hold 

a public meeting on August 23, 2017, in 

the TVA West Tower Auditorium, 400 

West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, 

Tennessee. The public may comment on 

any agenda item or subject at a public 

listening session which begins at 9:30 

a.m. (ET). Following the end of the 

public listening session, the meeting 

will be called to order to consider the 

agenda items listed below. On-site 

registration will be available until 15 

minutes before the public listening 

session begins at 9:30 a.m. (ET). 

Preregistered speakers will address the 

Board first. TVA management will 

answer questions from the news media 

following the Board meeting. 

STATUS: Open. 

Agenda 

1. Report of the Finance, Rates, and 

Portfolio Committee 

A. Contribution to the TVA 

Retirement System 

B. FY 2018 Financial Plan and Budget 

C. Financing Authority 

D. Rate Adjustment 

2. Chair’s Remarks 

3. Approval of Minutes of the May 11, 

2017, Board Meeting 

4. Report From President and CEO 


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