Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 5 / Monday, January 8, 2001 / Notices 1371

1The notice of exemption was filed in Jefferson

Terminal Railroad Co.—Acquisition and Operation

Exemption—Crown Enterprises, Inc., STB Finance

Docket No. 33950 (STB served and published at 65

FR 66802 on Nov. 7, 2000). A petition filed by the

City of Detroit to revoke the exemption is currently

pending.

1 In addition, Riverview has acquired from DSC

Ltd. (DSC), a noncarrier and nonaffiliate, related

track and trackage rights within a 195.45-acre

industrial site located adjacent to Riverview’s 76-

acre parcel.

2Riverview reports that all operations will occur

within the Conrail Detroit Shared Asset Area as

designated in a transaction approved by the Board,

and consummated by the parties on June 1, 1999.

See CSX Corporation and CSX Transportation, Inc.,

Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk

Southern Railway Company—Control and

Operating Leases/Agreements—Conrail Inc. and

Consolidated Rail Corporation, STB Finance Docket

No. 33388, Decision No. 89 (STB served July 23,

1998).

3Riverview notes that it will apply to CN and

Conrail for switching and interchanging of traffic to

and from the tracks it owns, and/or will operate

Continued

Collection of Information): NHTSA

anticipates that no more than 17 vehicle

manufacturers will be affected by these

reporting requirements. NHTSA does

not believe any of these 17

manufacturers are a small business (i.e.,

one that employs less than 500 persons).

Manufacturers of new passenger motor

vehicles, including passenger cars,

certain small buses, and light trucks

with a gross vehicle weight rating of

8,500 pounds or less, must file a report

annually.

Estimate of the Total Annual

Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden

Resulting from the Collection of

Information: NHTSA estimates that the

vehicle manufacturers will incur a total

annual reporting and cost burden of

6,066 hours and $4,700,000. The

amount includes annual burden hours

incurred by multi-stage manufacturers

and motor vehicle equipment suppliers.

Issued on: January 2, 2001.

Noble N. Bowie,

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety,

Performance Standards.

[FR Doc. 01–433 Filed 1–5–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 33979]

CenTra, Inc., et al.—Continuance in

Control Exemption—Riverview Trenton

Railroad Company

CenTra, Inc. (CenTra) and Crown

Enterprises, Inc. (Crown) (collectively

applicants), noncarriers, have filed a

verified notice of exemption to continue

in control of the Riverview Trenton

Railroad Company (Riverview), upon

Riverview’s becoming a Class III

railroad.

The transaction was expected to be

consummated on the effective date of

the exemption. The earliest the

transaction could be consummated was

December 20, 2000, 7 days after the

exemption was filed.

This transaction is related to STB

Finance Docket No. 33980, Riverview

Trenton Railroad Company—

Acquisition and Operation Exemption—

Crown Enterprises, Inc., wherein

Riverview seeks to acquire a line of

railroad approximately 1.5 miles long in

Riverview and Trenton, MI.

CenTra controls Crown and Crown

controls Jefferson Terminal Railroad

Company (Jefferson), an entity formed to

become a Class III railroad, which has

filed a notice of exemption to acquire

and operate a lined owned by Crown in

Detroit, MI.1

Applicants state that (i) the rail lines

of Riverview and Jefferson will not

connect with each other, (ii) the

transaction is not part of a series of

transactions that would connect the

railroads with each other and there is no

other railroad in the corporate family,

and (iii) the transaction does not involve

a Class I carrier. Therefore, the

transaction is exempt from the prior

approval requirements of 49 U.S.C.

11323. See 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2).

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. Because this transaction

involves Class III rail carriers only, the

Board, under the statute, may not

impose labor protective conditions for

this transaction.

If the 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 transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 33979, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925

K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423–

0001. In addition, a copy of each

pleading must be served on Daniel C.

Sullivan, Esq., Sullivan & Hincks, 122

W. 22nd Street, Suite 350, Oak Brook,

IL 60523.

Board decisions and notices are

available on our website at

‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’

Decided: December 29, 2000.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–329 Filed 1–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 33980]

Riverview Trenton Railroad

Company—Acquisition and Operation

Exemption—Crown Enterprises, Inc.

Riverview Trenton Railroad Company

(Riverview), a noncarrier, has filed a

verified notice of exemption under 49

CFR 1150.31 to acquire from Crown

Enterprises, Inc. and operate

approximately 1.5 miles of rail line

within a 76-acre parcel in Riverview

and Trenton, MI.1 The line connects

with the track of the Canadian National

Railway Company subsidiary Grand

Trunk Western Railroad, Inc. (CN), over

which Consolidated Rail Corporation

(Conrail) has operated, at the exit from

the southwesterly edge of the 195.45-

acre DSC site, as the track traverses

diagonally across the intersection of

King Road and W. Jefferson Avenue, in

Trenton, near the FN Tower and CN

River Subdivision milepost 10.96. The

line also connects with the track of the

CN as the line exits the 76-acre parcel

at the northwest corner where it

traverses W. Jefferson Avenue near its

junction with Ford Avenue in Riverview

and extends into the so-called CN Penn

Salt Yard, over which Conrail has

operated, near CN River Subdivision

milepost 9.39.2

This transaction is related to STB

Finance Docket No. 33979, CenTra, Inc.,

et al.—Continuance in Control

Exemption—Riverview Trenton Railroad

Company, wherein CenTra, Inc., et al.

has filed a verified notice to continue in

control of Riverview upon its becoming

a Class III rail carrier.

The transaction was expected to be

consummated immediately after the

effective date of the exemption. The

earliest the transaction could be

consummated was December 20, 2000, 7

days after the exemption was filed.3