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recordkeeping requirements to OMB for

review and approval, and to publish a

notice in the Federal Register notifying

the public that the agency has made

such a submission.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

April 4, 2001. If you intend to comment

but cannot prepare comments promptly,

please advise the OMB Reviewer and

the Agency Clearance Officer before the

deadline.

COPIES: Request for clearance (OMB 83–

1), supporting statement, and other

documents submitted to OMB for

review may be obtained from the

Agency Clearance Officer.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments

concerning this notice to: Agency

Clearance Officer, Jacqueline White,

Small Business Administration, 409 3rd

Street, SW., 5th Floor, Washington, DC

20416; and OMB Reviewer, Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jacqueline White, Agency Clearance

Officer, (202) 205–7044.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Financial Institution

Confirmation Form.

No: 860.

Frequency: On Occasion.

Description of Respondents: SBIC

Investment Companies.

Annual Responses: 1,500.

Annual Burden: 750.

Jacqueline White,

Chief, Administrative Information Branch.

[FR Doc. 01–5289 Filed 3–2–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Reporting and Recordkeeping

Requirements Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Small Business Administration.

ACTION: Notice of Reporting

Requirements Submitted for OMB

Review.

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35), agencies are required to

submit proposed reporting and

recordkeeping requirements to OMB for

review and approval, and to publish a

notice in the Federal Register notifying

the public that the agency has made

such a submission.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

April 4, 2001. If you intend to comment

but cannot prepare comments promptly,

please advise the OMB Reviewer and

the Agency Clearance Officer before the

deadline.

COPIES: Request for clearance (OMB 83–

1), supporting statement, and other

documents submitted to OMB for

review may be obtained from the

Agency Clearance Officer.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments

concerning this notice to: Agency

Clearance Officer, Jacqueline White,

Small Business Administration, 409 3rd

Street, S.W., 5th Floor, Washington,

D.C. 20416; and OMB Reviewer, Office

of Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

D.C. 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jacqueline White, Agency Clearance

Officer, (202) 205–7044.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Request for Information

Concerning Portfolio Financing.

No: 857.

Frequency: On Occasion.

Description of Respondents: SBIC

Investment Companies.

Annual Responses: 2,160.

Annual Burden: 2,160.

Jacqueline White,

Chief, Administrative Information Branch.

[FR Doc. 01–5290 Filed 3–2–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. 28895]

Airport Privatization Pilot Program

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), (DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Receipt of Final

Application of Niagara Falls

International Airport, Niagara Falls,

New York; Request for Comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) is seeking

information and comments from

interested parties on the final

application by the Niagara Frontier

Transportation Authority (NFTA) for

participation of Niagara Falls

International Airport (IAG) in the

airport privatization pilot program. The

final application is accepted for review.

Title 49 U.S.C. Section 47134

establishes an airport privatization pilot

program and authorizes the Department

of Transportation to grant exemptions

from certain Federal statutory and

regulatory requirements for up to five

airport privatization projects. The

application procedures require the FAA

to publish a notice of receipt of the final

application in the Federal Register and

accept public comment on the final

application for a period of 60 days.

DATES: Comments must be received by

May 4, 2001. Comments that are

received after the date will be

considered only to the extend possible.

ADDRESSES: The IAG final application is

available for public review in the

Federal Aviation Administration, Office

of Chief Counsel, Attention: Rules

Docket (AGC–200), Docket No. 28895,

800 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20591. NFTA, the

airport sponsor, has also made a copy of

the application available at the

following locations:

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, 1

Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York

14202, (716) 858–8900

Niagara Frontier Transportation

Authority, 181 Ellicott Street, Buffalo,

New York, 14203 Attn: Ruth Keating,

(716) 855–7398

Earl W. Brydges Public Library, 1425

Main Street, Niagara Falls, New York

14305, (716) 286–4881

Niagara Falls International Airport,

Niagara Falls Boulevard, Niagara

Falls, New York 14304, (716) 297–

4494

Comments on the IAG final

application must be delivered or mailed,

in quadruplicate, to: the Federal

Aviation Administration, Office of Chief

Counsel, Attention: Rules Docket (AGC–

200), Docket No. #28895, 800

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washingotn, DC 20591. All comments

must be marked ‘‘Docket No. 28895’’.

Commenters wishing the FAA to

acknowledge receipt of their comments

must include a preaddressed, stamped

postcard on which the following

statement is made: ‘‘Comments to

Docket No. 28895.’’ The postcard will be

date stamped and mailed to the

commenter. Comments on this Notice

may be delivered or examined in room

915G on weekdays, except Federal

holidays, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00

p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kevin C. Willis, Compliance Specialist

(AAS–400), (202–267–8741) Airport

Compliance Division, Office of Airport

Safety and Standards, Federal Aviation

Administration, 800 Independence Ave.

SW., Washington, DC 29591.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

149 of the Federal Aviation

Administration Authorization Act of

1996, Pub. L. No. 104–264 (October 9,

1996) (1996 Reauthorization Act), added

a new 47134 to Title 49 of the U.S.

Code. Section 47134 authorizes the

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1 DORA states that it will interchange traffic with

UP. DORA further states that it will provide

common carrier rail freight service over the line for

its own account or through a contract operator,

which will obtain its own operating authority from

the Board.

Secretary of Transportation, and

through delegation, the FAA

Administrator, to exempt a sponsor of a

public use airport that has received

Federal assistance from certain Federal

requirements in connection with the

privatization of the airport by sale or

lease to a private party. Specifically, the

Administrator may exempt the sponsor

from all or part of the requirements to

use airport revenues for airport-related

purposes (upon approval of 65 percent

of the air carriers serving the airport and

having 65 percent of the landed weight),

to pay back a portion of Federal grants

Government upon transfer of the airport.

Since, Niagara Falls International

Airport is a general aviation airport

without air carrier service; the 65

percent approval of air carriers is not

required. The Administrator is also

authorized to exempt the private

purchaser or lessee from the

requirement to use all airport revenues

for airport-related purposes, to the

extent necessary to permit the purchaser

or lessee to earn compensation from the

operations of the airport.

On September 16, 1997, the FAA

issued a notice of procedures to be used

in applications for exemption under

Airport Privatization Pilot Program (62

FR 48693). The notice of procedures and

public comments received are available

for review in FAA Rules Docket No.

28895.

On June 5, 2000, NFTA filed a final

application and selected Cintra Niagara

Falls Airport Corporation, USA, as the

airport’s private operator. Cintra Niagara

proposes to lease the airport under a 99-

year lease agreement. It plans to market

the airport to develop new services such

as low cost domestic passenger flights to

business and leisure centers,

international charter and cargo services.

Cintra Niagara will commit $10.1

million in the initial 13 years for the

purposes of operating, managing and

developing the airport. $1.125 million

will be used for operating, marketing

and capital improvements costs. The

remaining $8.975 million will be used

for marketing expenses and to fund the

initial five year capital planning period.

Cintra Niagara will receive an

operating subsidy of $2.475 million

from the NFTA for the first three years

($900,000, year 1; $900,000, year 2;

$675,000, year 3). The operating subsidy

will end after year 3. Cintra Niagara will

pay a rental to the NFTA equivalent to

$2.00 per passenger for each eligible

passenger in excess of 450,000 total

annual passengers at the Airport. Cintra

Niagara forecasts that rental payments

will begin in calendar year 2007.

On August 11, 2000, in an effort to

clarify certain parts of the application,

FAA staff requested responses to 21

questions from the NFTA and Cintra

Niagara, the private operator. Copies of

the 21 questions, the answers submitted

by the NFTA, and the draft lease are

available for public view and comment

included as an attachment to the

sponsor’s application for public review.

The FAA has determined that the

application is substantially complete.

As part of its review of the IAG final

application, the FAA will consider all

comments and information submitted

by interested parties during the 60-day

comment period for this notice.

Issued in Washington, DC on February 21,

2001.

David L. Bennett,

Director, Airport Safety and Standards.

[FR Doc. 01–5268 Filed 3–2–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Notice Before Waiver With Respect to

Land at Tri-State Airport, Huntington,

West Virginia

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of intent of waiver with

respect to land.

SUMMARY: The FAA is publishing notice

of proposed release of 0.459 acres of

land at the Tri-State Airport,

Huntington, West Virginia to the City of

Kenova for the installation of a water

storage tank. There are no impacts to the

Airport and the land is not needed for

airport development as shown on the

Airport Layout Plan. Fair Market Value

of the land will be paid to the Airport

sponsor, and used for Airport purposes.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before April 4, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this

application may be mailed or delivered

in triplicate to the FAA at the following

address: Larry F. Clark, Manager, FAA

Beckley Airports Field Office, 176

Airport Circle, Room 101, Beaver, WV

25813.

In addition, one copy of any

comments submitted to the FAA must

be mailed or delivered to Larry G.

Salyers, Airport Director, Tri-State

Airport at the following address: Larry

G. Salyers, Airport Director, Tri-State

Airport, 1449 Airport Road, Huntington,

WV 25704.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Larry F. Clark, Manager Beckley

Airports Field Office, (304) 252–6216,

fax (304) 253–8028.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April

5, 2000, new authorizing legislation

became effective. That bill, the Wendell

H. Ford Aviation Investment and

Reform Act for the 21st Century, Public

Law 106–181 (Apr. 5, 2000; 114 Stat. 61)

(AIR 21) requires that a 30 day public

notice must be provided before the

Secretary may waive any condition

imposed on an interest in surplus

property.

Issued in Beckley, West Virginia on

February 2, 2001.

Larry F. Clark,

Manager, Beckley Airports Field Office,

Eastern Region.

[FR Doc. 01–5269 Filed 3–2–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34008]

Dickinson Osceola Railroad

Association—Acquisition and

Operation Exemption—Union Pacific

Railroad Company

Dickinson Osceola Railroad

Association (DORA), a non-profit entity,

newly created to become a Class III

railroad, has filed a notice of exemption

under 49 CFR 1150.31 to acquire (by

purchase) and operate approximately

37.21 miles of rail line currently owned

by Union Pacific Railroad Company

(UP). The line to be acquired and

operated, UP’s Estherville Branch,

extends between approximately

milepost 79.34, at a point west of

Superior, IA, and the end of the line at

approximately milepost 116.55, a point

west of Allendorf, IA, in Dickinson and

Osceola Counties, IA. DORA certifies

that its projected revenues will not

exceed those that would qualify it as a

Class III rail carrier and its revenues are

not projected to exceed $5 million.1

The transaction was scheduled to be

consummated on or shortly after

February 16, 2001.

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 does not

automatically stay the transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 34008, must be filed with