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1NJR is a wholly owned subsidiary of CPR.

2St. L & H was created in 1996 as a wholly owned

subsidiary of CPR. See Canadian Pacific Limited,

Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and

Napierville Junction Railroad Company-Corporate

Family Transaction Exemption-St. Lawrence &

Hudson Railway Company Limited, STB Finance

Docket No. 33136 (STB served Oct. 9, 1996).

3Applicants state that the rail assets to be

transferred in STB Finance Docket No. 34004 are

identical to those covered by the transaction in STB

Finance Docket No. 33136.

4Applicants note that NJR was a party to the STB

Finance Docket No. 33136 proceeding when it

granted the leasehold interest to St. L & H.

Applicants further note that, other than NJR’s role

as the lessor of the trackage, NJR is not involved in

the STB Finance Docket No. 34004 transaction.

5Pursuant to 49 CFR 1180.4, to qualify for an

exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d), a railroad must

file a verified notice of the transaction with the

Board at least one week before the transaction is

consummated.

Transportation, Maritime

Administration, MAR–832 Room 7201,

400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington,

DC 20590. Telephone 202–366–2307.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title V of

Pub. L. 105–383 provides authority to

the Secretary of Transportation to

administratively waive the U.S.-build

requirements of the Jones Act, and other

statutes, for small commercial passenger

vessels (no more than 12 passengers).

This authority has been delegated to the

Maritime Administration per 49 CFR

1.66, Delegations to the Maritime

Administrator, as amended. By this

notice, MARAD is publishing

information on a vessel for which a

request for a U.S.-build waiver has been

received, and for which MARAD

requests comments from interested

parties. Comments should refer to the

docket number of this notice and the

vessel name in order for MARAD to

properly consider the comments.

Comments should also state the

commenter’s interest in the waiver

application, and address the waiver

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’S

regulations at 46 CFR part 388.

Vessel Proposed for Waiver of the U.S.-

build Requirement

(1) Name of vessel and owner for

which waiver is requested. Name of

vessel: STRIKE ENHANCER. Owner:

Dennis D Douglas.

(2) Size, capacity and tonnage of

vessel. According to the applicant:

‘‘Gross 18 ton, Net 14 ton, Length 34.2

Breadth h 13.5 Depth 6.0.’’

(3) Intended use for vessel, including

geographic region of intended operation

and trade. According to the applicant:

This vessel will be used as a six

passenger or less vessel. This vessel will

work out of the Port St. Joe area, which

lies in the middle of the panhandle. I

feel to properly fish this region a vessel

would need a easterly boundary to

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the westerly being Pensacola FL.

30:20.50 87:18.00. Since our goal is

sports fishing, and we have several

species of migratory fish this would

allow the boat to work year around.’’

(4) Date and Place of construction and

(if applicable) rebuilding. Date of

construction: 1973. Place of

construction: Omastrand. Hardanger,

Norway.

(5) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on other commercial

passenger vessel operators. According to

the applicant: ‘‘Port St. Joe has a small

commercial fishing fleet which is for

harvesting eatable wholesale fish. We

will be the only small sports fishing

vessel in this area, so at this time i can’t

see where there will be any negative

impact on other commercial operators.’’

(6) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on U.S. shipyards.

According to the applicant: ‘‘I have just

completed the restoration on this vessel,

which was at a local shipyard. At this

time i have spent some where in the

amount of 37 thousand dollars with the

merchants in this area, and foresee

spending more.’’

Dated: February 12, 2001.

By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

Joel C. Richard,

Secretary, Maritime Administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34004]

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

and Napierville Junction Railway

Company-Corporate Family

Transaction Exemption-St. Lawrence &

Hudson Railway Company Limited

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

(CPR) and Napierville Junction Railway

Company (NJR)1 (collectively

applicants) have filed a verified notice

of exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3)

to absorb the St. Lawrence & Hudson

Railway Company Limited (St. L & H)

and the assets it holds back into CPR, its

parent corporation.2 The United States

assets of St. L & H rail to be absorbed

into CPR are described as follows:3

(1) St. L & H’s interest in CNCPNiagara Detroit, an Ontario partnership,

which owns all of the stock of Detroit

River Tunnel Company (DRTC) and

Niagara River Bridge Company (NRBC).

St. L & H held trackage rights from

DRTC and NRBC: (a) through the Detroit

River Tunnel (a railway tunnel

connecting Detroit, MI, and Windsor,

Ontario, Canada) in the U.S. from the

international border (mid-tunnel at

milepost 226.3) to the end of the

connecting track at milepost 228.2, in

Detroit, a distance of approximately 2

miles; and (b) over the Suspension

Bridge (a railway bridge between

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and

Niagara Falls, NY) in the U.S. between

the international border (milepost 0.2)

and the end of the access track at

milepost 0.0, in Niagara Falls, a distance

of 0.2 miles. The trackage rights also

include short segments of connecting

track at both the Detroit River Tunnel

and the Suspension Bridge.

(2) St. L & H’s leasehold interest in the

rail properties of the NJR4 consisting of

a 1.1-mile segment of track on the U.S.

side of the international border near

Rouses Point, NY, where NJR connects

with the lines of the Delaware and

Hudson Railway Company, Inc., a

wholly owned subsidiary of CPR.

(3) St. L & H’s incidental overhead

trackage rights to reach connections

with U.S. carriers in the Detroit terminal

area as follows: (a) Former Consolidated

Rail Corporation (Conrail) trackage

between the end of the Detroit River

Tunnel connecting track (Conrail

milepost 2.02 Main Line) and Conrail

milepost 9.3, Detroit Line, including the

Delray Interlocking, at milepost 5.3,

Detroit Line, and between milepost 2.02

and milepost 3.1, Mackinaw Branch, a

total distance of approximately 8.4

miles; (b) former Norfolk and Western

Railway Company (NW) line between

the Delray Interlocking (NW milepost

4.4) and Oakwood Yard (NW milepost

8.87), a distance of approximately 4.47

miles; and (c) the CSX Transportation,

Inc. (CSXT) line between Delray

Interlocking (CSXT milepost 4.5) and

Rougemere Yard (CSXT milepost 6.6), a

distance of approximately 2.1 miles.

The verified notice states that the

transaction was consummated on

January 1, 2001. The earliest the

transaction could have been

consummated was February 7, 2001, the

effective date of the exemption (7 days

after the exemption was filed).5

The transaction is part of a corporate

reorganization designed to dissolve St. L

& H and to absorb its properties and

operations into CPR. This is a

transaction within a corporate family of

the type specifically exempted from

prior review and approval under 49 CFR

1180.2(d)(3). As described, the

transaction will not result in adverse

changes in service levels, operational

changes, or a change in the competitive

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balance with carriers outside the

applicants’ corporate family.

Applicants state that there will be no

change in operations as a result of this

transaction, and they do not anticipate

that any labor impacts will occur within

the United States. 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.

Applicants state that they recognize the

Board’s obligation to impose employee

protective conditions pursuant to 49

U.S.C. 11326(a) for the benefit of their

U.S. railroad employees, and that they

agree to imposition of the conditions

imposed in New York Dock Ry.-ControlBrooklyn Eastern Dist., 360 I.C.C. 60

(1979) (New York Dock).

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. 34004, 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 Diane Gerth,

Esq., Leonard, Street and Deinard, 150

South Fifth Street, Minneapolis, MN

55402.

Board decisions and notices are

available on our website at

‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’

Decided: February 9, 2001.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–4024 Filed 2–15–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Community Adjustment and

Investment Programs, Proposed

Renewal of Information Collection;

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Department of the

Treasury, both as Chair of the interagency committee (the ‘‘Finance

Committee’’) established by Executive

Order No. 12916, dated May 13, 1994,

which administers the United States

Community Adjustment and Investment

Program, and as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on a

continuing Federally-sponsored

information collection, as required by

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the Office of

Community Adjustment and Investment

Programs within the Department of the

Treasury is soliciting comment

concerning its renewal of a Federally

sponsored information collection by the

North American Development Bank

(‘‘NADBank’’) titled, ‘‘Community

Adjustment and Investment Program

Grant Program Grant Agreement.’’

DATES: Written comments should be

received on or before April 20, 2001, to

be assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Jean Whaley, Director, Office of

Community Adjustment and Investment

Programs, Department of the Treasury,

Room 5017, 1500 Pennsylvania Ave.,

NW., Washington, DC 20220 (Tel.: 202/

622–0741).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You

can request additional information from

or a copy of the collection from Jean

Whaley, Director, Office of Community

Adjustment and Investment Programs,

Department of the Treasury, Room 5017,

1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,

Washington, DC 20220 (Tel.: 202/622–

0741).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Community Adjustment and

Investment Program Grant Program

Grant Agreement.

OMB Number: 1505–0178.

Abstract: The Department of the

Treasury, as Chair of the Finance

Committee, is sponsoring the

NADBank’s collection of information

under the terms of a Grant Agreement

between NADBank and awardees of

NADBank grants. The purpose of the

grants is to help create and retain

private-sector jobs in U.S. communities

experiencing job dislocations

attributable to changing trade patterns

with Canada and Mexico due to the

North American Free Trade Agreement.

The subject NADBank grants are

endorsed by the United States

Government (‘‘USG’’), and the funds for

the NADBank grants were transferred to

NADBank by the USG. The collection of

information in the Grant Agreement is

fivefold. First, it requires each awardee

to submit to NADBank an opinion of

awardee counsel addressing such

commercially standard matters as the

due authorization, execution, delivery

and enforceability of the Grant

Agreement. Second, it requires each

awardee to submit to NADBank

quarterly reports addressing the

awardee’s financial and project

performance. Third, it requires each

awardee to submit to NADBank a final

financial and performance report after

the expiration of the grant. Fourth, it

requires each awardee to submit

annually to NADBank audited financial

statements. Fifth, it imposes specific

record keeping requirements. The

purpose of the collection of information

is to ensure that the Grant Agreement

constitutes a legal binding obligation of

each awardee and to monitor awardee

compliance, performance, and financial

soundness. The purpose of the record

keeping requirements is to ensure both

the effective and efficient use of the

grant consistent with sound business

practices, and the ability to audit the

use of the grant consistent with the

Grant Agreement.

Current Actions: Extension.

Type of Review: Extension.

Affected Public: State, local, and

Indian tribal Governments and not-forprofit institutions.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

36.

Estimated Total Annual Responses:

216–262.

Frequency of Responses: This varies,

depending on the specific reporting

requirements, but consists of quarterly,

annual and on occasion reporting

requirements.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 828 hours.

Requests for Comments

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval. All comments will become a

matter of public record. Comments are

invited on: (a) Whether the collection of

information is necessary, including

whether the information has practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the estimate

of the burden of the collection of

information; (c) ways to enhance the

quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; (d) ways to

minimize the burden of the collection of

information on respondents, including

through the use of automated collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology; and (e) estimates of capital

or start-up costs and costs of operation,

maintenance, and purchase of services

to provide information.

Dated: February 13, 2001.

Jean Whaley,

Director, Office of Community Adjustment

and Investment Programs.

[FR Doc. 01–3943 Filed 2–15–01; 8:45 am]

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