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1See Ohio River Partners LLC—Acquis. & 

Operation Exemption—Hannibal Development, 

LLC, FD 35984 (STB served Apr. 1, 2016). 

2ORPS is indirectly owned and controlled by 

Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors 

LLC, which is managed by an affiliate of Fortress 

Investment Group LLC (Fortress). 

3The Parties state that the Omal Line acquisition 

was part of a broader real estate transaction 

pursuant to which ORPS acquired certain industrial 

property (including the land upon which the Omal 

Line is located) from Hannibal Development LLC 

(Hannibal Development). The parties originally 

contemplated that ORP would acquire and operate 

the Omal Line, while ORPS would acquire the other 

real property from Hannibal Development. 

However, as consummated, the transaction resulted 

in ORPS becoming the owner of all the property 

conveyed by Hannibal Development, including the 

Omal Line. 

4An unexecuted draft copy of the Parties’ 

agreement was filed with the verified notice of 

exemption. 

the INA (8 U.S.C. 1189), shall be 

maintained. 

This determination shall be published 

in the Federal Register. 

Dated: October 11, 2017. 

Rex W. Tillerson, 

Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23792 Filed 10–31–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 10185] 

Review of the Designation as a Foreign 

Terrorist Organization of Jaish-eMohammed (and Other Aliases) 

Based upon a review of the 

Administrative Record assembled 

pursuant to Section 219(a)(4)(C) of the 

Immigration and Nationality Act, as 

amended (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)(4)(C)) 

(‘‘INA’’), and in consultation with the 

Attorney General and the Secretary of 

the Treasury, I conclude that the 

circumstances that were the basis for the 

designation of the aforementioned 

organization as a Foreign Terrorist 

Organization have not changed in such 

a manner as to warrant revocation of the 

designation and that the national 

security of the United States does not 

warrant a revocation of the designation. 

Therefore, I hereby determine that the 

designation of the aforementioned 

organization as a Foreign Terrorist 

Organization, pursuant to Section 219 of 

the INA (8 U.S.C. 1189), shall be 

maintained. 

This determination shall be published 

in the Federal Register. 

Dated: October 11, 2017. 

Rex W. Tillerson, 

Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23790 Filed 10–31–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 10184] 

Review of the Designation as a Foreign 

Terrorist Organization of Islamic Jihad 

Union (and Other Aliases) 

Based upon a review of the 

Administrative Record assembled 

pursuant to Section 219(a)(4)(C) of the 

Immigration and Nationality Act, as 

amended (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)(4)(C)) 

(‘‘INA’’), and in consultation with the 

Attorney General and the Secretary of 

the Treasury, I conclude that the 

circumstances that were the basis for the 

designation of the aforementioned 

organization as a Foreign Terrorist 

Organization have not changed in such 

a manner as to warrant revocation of the 

designation and that the national 

security of the United States does not 

warrant a revocation of the designation. 

Therefore, I hereby determine that the 

designation of the aforementioned 

organization as a Foreign Terrorist 

Organization, pursuant to Section 219 of 

the INA (8 U.S.C. 1189), shall be 

maintained. 

This determination shall be published 

in the Federal Register. 

Dated: October 11, 2017. 

Rex W. Tillerson, 

Secretary of State . 

[FR Doc. 2017–23791 Filed 10–31–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 10182] 

Department of State Performance 

Review Board Members 

In accordance with section 4314(c)(4) 

of 5 United States Code, the Department 

of State has appointed the following 

individuals to the Department of State 

Performance Review Board for Senior 

Executive Service members: James 

Walsh, Chairperson, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary, Bureau of International 

Narcotics and Law Enforcement, 

Department of State; Lisa Grosh, 

Assistant Legal Adviser, Office of the 

Legal Adviser, Department of State; 

Nancy Jackson, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary, Bureau of Population, 

Refugees and Migration, Department of 

State; Eliot Kang, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary, Bureau of International 

Security and Nonproliferation, 

Department of State; and, Gail Neelon, 

Associate Dean, Foreign Service 

Institute, Department of State. 

Dated: October 20, 2017. 

William Todd, 

Acting, Director General of the Foreign 

Service and Director of Human Resources, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23796 Filed 10–31–17; 8:45 am] 

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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. FD 36152] 

Ohio River Partners Shareholders 

LLC—Exemption for Intra-Corporate 

Family Transaction—Ohio River 

Partners LLC 

Ohio River Partners Shareholder LLC 

(ORPS) and Ohio River Partners LLC 

(ORP) (collectively, the Parties) have 

jointly filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3) 

for an intra-corporate family transaction. 

ORP is a Delaware limited liability 

company, and in 2016 the Board 

authorized it to acquire and operate a 

12.2-mile rail line between milepost 

60.5 at or near Powhatan Point, Ohio, 

and milepost 72.2 at or near Hannibal, 

Ohio (the Omal Line).1 ORPS, a 

Delaware limited liability company, 

owns 100% of the member interests of 

ORP.2

According to the Parties, the purpose 

of this transaction is to vest both fee title 

to the Omal Line and the right (and 

common carrier obligation) to operate 

the Omal Line in a single entity 

(ORPS).3 They state that the transaction 

will streamline administration and 

enhance corporate efficiency for the 

Parties, which are already closely 

integrated. They note, for example, that 

the proposed merger will eliminate the 

need for ORP and ORPS to prepare 

separate tax returns and maintain 

separate corporate records. 

The Parties state that the transaction 

does not impose or involve any 

interchange commitment by, or 

affecting, the Parties.4

Unless stayed, the exemption will be 

effective on November 15, 2017 (30 days 

after the verified notice was filed). The 

Parties state that they intend to 

consummate the proposed transaction 

as soon as practicable after the effective 

date of the exemption. 

This is a transaction within a 

corporate family of the type specially 

exempted from prior review and 

approval under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3). 

The Parties state that the transaction 

will not result in any adverse change in 

service levels or significant operational 

changes because ORP has not yet 

commenced operations over the Omal 

Line. Nor will the merger of ORP with 

and into ORPS result in any change in 


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1 In the verified notice, UP states that after the 

proposed abandonment, UP will continue to 

provide rail service from the remaining portion of 

the Rockwell Industrial Lead, as well as the Mason 

City and Albert Lea Subdivisions of the Spine Line, 

which lie within one mile of 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 $1,800. 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). 

the competitive balance with carriers 

outside the corporate family. 

Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board 

may not use its exemption authority to 

relieve a rail carrier of its statutory 

obligation to protect the interests of its 

employees. Section 11326(c), however, 

does not provide for labor protection for 

transactions under Sections 11324 and 

11325 that involve only Class III rail 

carriers. The exemption here was filed 

by ORP and ORPS. Only Class III 

carriers are involved. Accordingly, labor 

protective conditions will not be 

imposed. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the 

exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) 

may be filed at any time. The filing of 

a petition to revoke will not 

automatically stay the exemption. 

Petitions for stay must be filed no later 

than November 8, 2017 (at least seven 

days before the exemption becomes 

effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

36152, must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, one copy of each pleading 

must be served on Terrence M. Hynes, 

Sidley Austin LLP, 1501 K Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20005. 

According to the Parties, this action is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at 

WWW.STB.GOV. 

Decided: October 27, 2017. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Brendetta S. Jones, 

Clearance Clerk. 

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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 33 (Sub-No. 327X)] 

Union Pacific Railroad Company— 

Abandonment and Discontinuance of 

Service Exemption—in Cerro Gordo 

County, Iowa 

Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 

has filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR pt. 1152 subpart F— 

Exempt Abandonments and 

Discontinuance of Service for UP to: (1) 

Abandon a 2.0-mile portion of UP’s 

Rockwell Industrial Lead in Mason City, 

Iowa, between milepost 155.5 near Elm 

Street and milepost 157.5 near 19th 

Street; and (2) discontinue service over 

a 0.5-mile portion of UP’s Rockwell 

Industrial Lead near Swifts, Iowa, 

between milepost 157.5 and milepost 

158.0, near Swifts, Iowa (the Line).1 The 

Line is entirely within Cerro Gordo 

County, Iowa, and traverses United 

States Postal Service Zip Code 50401. 

UP has certified that: (1) No local or 

overhead traffic has moved over the 

Line for at least two years; (2) there is 

no need to reroute any traffic 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 (Board) or with 

any U.S. District Court or has been 

decided in favor of 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 become effective on 

December 1, 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 interim trail use/rail 

banking requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 

must be filed by November 9, 2017. 

Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by November 21, 

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 UP’s 

representative: Jeremy M. Berman, 

General Attorney, 1400 Douglas Street, 

Stop 1580, Omaha, NE 68179. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

UP 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 

November 6, 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 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), 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 November 1, 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: October 26, 2017. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Brendetta S. Jones, 

Clearance Clerk. 

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